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Rotary Mesh (Silk) Screens for Label Printing
Providing you the highest added value in screen printing is UPrint Technologies’ vision. To achieve this aim, we strive for superior product quality combined with excellent services and solutions. You will benefit from UPrint’s commitment through realizing high-quality screen printing results at the lowest possible operational costs. That is how we define game-changing in screen printing.
To support you in realizing your high printing quality objectives, UPrint Technologies has developed an aligned range of solutions for rotary silk screen printing:
AKK DLI Screen for Rotary Screen Imaging
Rotary Mesh (Silk) Screen
End Rings
Gear Wheels
End Ring with Gear Wheel custom made to fit print head
Rotary (Silk) Screen for Label Printing
A UPrint Rotary Silk Screen is a Mesh screen electroformed from nickel. A dimensional repeat precision up to 0.01 mm provides you a more economical solution, while keeping excellent print quality. Typical applications are found in label printing to give that high-end look that no other process can deliver, for example when a true “no label” look is desired. Other applications where you can use rotary screen are for example printing tactile (braille), combination varnishes, scent, metallic, high opacity white and color shifting effects.
Combined with usage of AKK DLI Screen, you will create a standardized screen making process, with guaranteed reproducibility. More advantages of UPrint Rotary Silk Screen are that you realize a:
- perfect registration
- high durability
- best in class performance/price ratio
- excellent color management
A one of a kind industrialized Rotary Screen making process consisting only two steps
Once you choose for UPrint Rotary Silk Screen combined with the AKK DLI Screen imager you also choose for a standardized two-step screen making process:
- image with high resolution AKK DLI Screen Imaging laser solution (emulsion exposing)
- wash-out in an AKK screen washer
You now have access to provide your customers a competitive edge, since you offer the highest print quality and high production efficiency, short time to press and that all against the lowest price.
Cleaning of your screens after the print job is finished
UPrint recommends using dedicated FlexoClean Screen cleansers to achieve the best cleaning results after screen usage.
UPrint Technologies helps you in choosing the right Mesh for your print job:
Technical Data
| Mesh (holes/inch) | 305 | 200 | 125 | 75 | |||||
| Thickness | 80 | 100 | 105 | 150 | 125 | ||||
| Open Area (%) | 17 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 25 | 15 | 40 | 30 |
| Hole Size (microns) | 34 | 33 | 30 | 28 | 24 | 52 | 78 | 210 | 190 |
| Max. particle size (microns) | 11 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 70 | 63 |
| Ink Deposit thickness (micros) | 14 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 15 | 60 | 40 |
| Finest line width (mm) | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.13 | 0.23 | 0.34 | 0.34 |
| Fine line & text | v | v | v | v | v | ||||
| Halftone & vignette | v | v | v | ||||||
| Coarse line & text | v | v | v | v | v | v | v | ||
| Opaque solid, line & text | v | v | v | v | v | v | v | ||
| Tactile (braile) | v | v | |||||||
| Metalics | v | v | v | v | v | ||||