PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2020

LABELLING PETplanet Insider Vol. 21 No. 05/20 www.petpla.net 38 DecoType Lab The manually-operated DecoType Lab is a fully-integrated system designed for test runs, operator train- ing and/or small scale production. The Lab is equipped with one Dekron Printing System Duo unit, pro- viding two print stations, and a print cage, ready for printing onto cylindri- cal objects. It is supplied with all the hardware and software required to design and develop digital decoration. It uses specially-formulated digital UV inks, controlled by Print Server colour management and RIP func- tions. The colour spectrum covers CMYK plus white, varnish and up to two spotcolours; glass substrates can be protected by a digital lacquer. A separate unit houses the printing system, pretreatment and UV curing functions. It arrives ready to connect to filtered compressed air and electric- ity, or gas for flame pretreatment on substrates. The housing can be used as a ser- vice station for maintenance, if opera- tors subsequently acquire DecoType Compact or Performance machines. Production capacity is up to 120 glass or PET containers/hour. DecoType Compact The Compact is a linear machine, designed for small batch sizes and up to 5,000 glass or PET containers/ hour. Output in practice depends on substrate, bottle size, material, weight, colour, artwork design and resolution. Up to five Dekron Printing System Duo units can be incorporated, allow- ing up to 10 printing stations. The Compact system features automatic cleaning, an artwork inspection system, specially formu- lated digital UV inks, and Dekron Print Server for colour management and RIP functions. Pretreatment can be Dekron DecoType system for a range of packaging solutions Direct digital printing The range of digital decoration solutions offered under the DecoType brand by German company Dekron GmbH, a subsidiary of Krones AG, extends from the manually-operated DecoType Lab, to the high speed DecoType Performance rotary machine. LABELLING ABC