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News Release from: EskoArtwork | Subject: I-script workflow
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Digital automated finishing solution
Esko-Graphics launches digital automated finishing solution, combining the MGE i-cut vision control system with its Kongsberg i-XL tables
Esko-Graphics announces the integration of the i-cut vision control system and i-script workflow, developed by Mikkelsen Graphic Engineering (MGE), in its Kongsberg i-XL series of cutting tables This allows die-less cutting contours to perfectly match printed images, improving overall productivity and quality
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 29 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The combined offering brings a very performant finishing solution to the packaging, signage, display and POP market.
The Kongsberg i-XL tables are ideally suited for cutting, creasing and scoring low volume corrugated and folding carton jobs because of their excellent tooling versatility.
The recently introduced multi-purpose toolhead MultiCUT further enhances the cutting capability of the Kongsberg i-XL tables for packaging, sign, display and POP applications, targeting rigid materials such as acrylics, polycarbonates, polypropylenes, alubonds, plywood, etc The MGE i-cut vision control system is integrated in the Kongsberg table with the i-cut camera in the MultiCUT head.
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With the camera, each printed object on each sheet is measured with its register marks for registration and for any dimensional changes, distortions or material variations like shrinkage or stretching.
The i-cut software automatically finetunes each cut-contour for perfect cut-to-print.
Via i-script workflow integration in digital printer RIP's and print control systems, key cutting and layout data is made available linked with a barcode when printing the graphic objects with register marks.
Starting the finishing process, the i-cut camera reads the barcode, retrieves the corresponding cutting and layout data and automatically, the i-cut camera is moved to the register marks for measuring followed by automatically aligning the cutting paths to the graphic objects for the entire layout.
The results are very precise cuts, following exactly the graphics, compensating for registration and image or media distortions.
The Kongsberg i-XL with i-cut control, can be equipped with a belt feed mechanism for continuous printed material loading either via roll or sheets, when linked with MGE's automatic sheet feeder.
Serious time and cost savings can be achieved since the combined system helps to reduce set-up time, material waste and overall production time, and to perform exact cost calculations.
Jef Bogaerts, Business Development Manager at Esko-Graphics, comments: "The combined solution of the robust Kongsberg i-XL tables with the MGE i-cut vision technology brings tremendous value to packaging, signage, display and POP producers.
Digital flatbed inkjet printing applications, printing directly on a wide variety of rigid substrates, are one of the strongest growing applications in the industry with run lengths becoming smaller and lead times becoming shorter.
The Esko-Graphics and MGE solution complements the printing of packages, signs, displays and POP materials with a unique finishing solution that provides automation with high productivity and high precision for the widest range of materials.".
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