Plastic tube decoration

Dry Offset and/or Prime Offset Printing & Varnishing

The standard dry offset printing and lacquering machine for plastic tubes and sleeves.

Operations:

  • Tube and sleeve printing and lacquering

Highlights:

  • Excellent-value dry offset printing machine, supports up to
    8 colors
  • Complete decoration in one machine: dry offset printing and
    lacquering
  • High printing precision, reliability and productivity
  • Fast changeover of printing design and size parts
  • Polytype Swiss quality ensures high-end printing quality

The compact and flexible dry offset printing and varnishing machine for plastic tubes and sleeves.

Highlights:

  • Quick change option for a fast design change
  • Surface pre-treatment by gas or by corona
  • Printing units with up to 8 (9) colors
  • Pre-Print option for strong colours with transparent tubes
  • TS grip system, which holds the tubes or sleeves firmly on the mandrel. Less set-up time, better print quality
  • UV ink curing with progressive power regulation
  • Squeezing roller or anilox varnishing unit

The high-performance dry offset printing and varnishing machine for plastic tubes or dry offset printing and varnishing machine for sleeve.

Highlights:

  • Sleeve or tube printing
  • Membrane punching and sealing
  • Cap screwing and tightening
  • Cap screwing and tightening incl. print orientation
  • Snap-on incl. print orientation

The compact and flexible dry offset printing and varnishing machine for plastic tubes and sleeve.

Highlights:

  • Compact machine design for dry offset printing, UV ink curing and over varnishing in one machine
  • Quick change option for a fast design chang
  • Modern control panel interface, easy to use with large data memory for repeated jobs
  • TS grip system, which holds the tubes or sleeves firmly on the mandrel. Less set-up time, better print quality
  • Pre-Print option for strong colours with transparent tubes/sleeves
  • Optional equipment for tube positioning prior to printing and vision control system can be installed

The ultra-high-speed dry offset printing and lacquering machine for plastic tubes.

Highlights:

  • Compact machine design for dry offset printing, UV ink curing and over varnishing in one machine with a speed up to 300/min
  • Safe tube transfer on the pin change
  • Adjusted operation for mini-tubes with a tube diameter of 10 mm

The standard dry offset printing and lacquering machine for plastic tubes and sleeves.

Operations:

  • Tube and sleeve printing and lacquering

Highlights:

  • Excellent-value dry offset printing machine, supports up to
    8 colors
  • Complete decoration in one machine: dry offset printing and
    lacquering
  • High printing precision, reliability and productivity
  • Fast changeover of printing design and size parts
  • Polytype Swiss quality ensures high-end printing quality

Technical Data

RDA-130
RDA-X
RDA 24-165
RDA 16-200/240
RDA 24-300
Min./max. diameter
19 – 50 mm
(16) 19-50 (60) mm
(16) 19-50 (60) mm
(16) 19-50 (60) mm
10.0 – 19.0 mm
Skirt length
60-210 mm
60-215 mm
50-215 mm
60-205 mm
25 – 110 mm
Max. printing width
205 mm
205 mm
205 mm
205 mm
160 mm
Cap diameter
(16) 19-50 mm
(16) 19-50 mm
Max. printing speed
120/min.
130/min.*
165/min.*
200/min or 240/min
300/min.
Weight of main machine
~10,000 kg
~10,000 kg
~12,000 kg
~11,000 kg
Up to 8 (9) colours
*(depending on configuration)

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