Following the recent purchase of a Daco D250
rotary die cutter in March 2011, Datamark needed to produce small rolls on 19mm
(3/4”) mandrels for mobile printers. Due
to the amount of material on each roll, the die cutter spent most of it time
stopped whilst the operator attached the web to the cores.
After exploring the market for turret
rewinding solutions, fully automatic machines where just too expensive and did
not suit the run lengths involved due to the setup times. Daco Solutions demonstrated the Daco PLD
semi-automatic turret where job setups are all entered from the colour touch
screen control and apart from mandrel changes there are no other mechanical
settings to be made. In contrast to
fully automatic turrets where many changes need to be made when changing
mandrels sizes, the Daco PLD takes no longer to set than a standard die cutter
other than the mandrel change.
‘To date it has delivered a 35% reduction in
production time on every job we have run.
The simplicity of operation and the facility to store the different job
settings are a real plus for quick setting up from different mandrel sizes. Output from the PLD is quite surprising and
has gone way beyond our expectations.
The only problem we need to cover now is how to box the finished product
quickly enough’ commented Steve Henshall, Production Director of Datamark UK.
Datamark UK take printed work from their
Edale Alpha flexographic label press and all small roll production such as
weigh scale labels etc. are finished on the Daco PLD, larger rolls are finished
on their inspection / slitter rewinder.
Daco designed the die station to accept tooling form the Edale Alpha and
from an existing rotary die cutter they already utilised.
The Daco PLD is available in 250mm (10”) and
350mm (13.75”) and rewind mandrels from 19mm (3/4”) to 76mm (3”). The machine can be used for rewinding of
printed work or with the addition of a rotary die station(s) is a very
efficient machine for plain label production.
