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PackSim-Flexo Description

Production Information

  • Good and bad copies printed
  • Time and cost of the print run


Training History

  • Problems solved (per operator)
    • Predefined problems and print faults
    • Operator Actions
      • Console Adjustments
      • Press Adjustments/ Repairs
      • Densitometer and Magnifier
        measurements
  • Use of Help System
  • Time and Cost /Action
  • Result of Action (print better or worse)
  • Overall results and production costs
  • Total Production Time
  • Total Downtime
  • Cost/Impression
  • Total Time and Cost


QC Tools

  • Manual densitometer
  • Adhesion test
  • VOC level
  • Spectrophotometer (Lab, Lch, delta Lab)
  • Magnifier


Press Customization

  • Multimedia images, movies, texts, etc. may be integrated in the simulator to better describe the workings of your own press
  • Trainer editor makes it possible to create your own materials, product costs, press configurations, and print jobs.


Material Selection

  • Paper, Film, and foil rolls (structural and surface properties)
  • Corrugated sheet rolls (structural and surface properties)
  • Inks (color, pH, viscosity)
  • Printing Plates (thickness, Durometer)
  • Tape (thickness, Durometer)
  • Aniloxes (screen rule, cell volume)
  • Doctor Blades (thickness, material)


Console Actions

For Web Presses
  • Reelstand pressure
  • Side-lay (lateral) web position
  • Nip pressures and tensions

For Corrugated Sheet Presses

  • Feeder controls (position of guides, opening gate)
  • Board Transfer controls

For All Presses

  • Inking pressure
  • Printing pressure
  • Doctor blades or fountain roll pressure
  • Ink pump speed
  • Viscosity and pH sensors
  • Dryer temperature and airflow
  • UV curing level
  • Print Register


Console Log

  • Operator actions


Press Components

General Components

  • Print Unit
    • Ink
    • Fountain Roll
    • Doctor Blade
    • Mounted Anilox Cylinder
      • Anilox Roll
      • Gear - anilox
    • Plate Cylinder Unit
      • Plate cylinder
      • Circumferential Reg. Collar
      • Slide Reg. Collar
      • Gears - plate cylinder
      • Printing Plate
      • Mounting Tape
    • Dryers
      • UV Curing
      • Heat Source
      • Drying Chamber
      • Supply Fan
      • Exhaust Fan
  • Air Conditioning Device


For Web Presses (Central Impression and In Line)

  • Unwind section
    • Brake
  • Nip Roll System
  • Web Cleaner
  • Infeed Section
    • Anti-static system
    • Corona treatment
    • Idler rolls
  • Web Guide System
  • Chill Rollers
    • Web Viewer
    • Slitter
    • Rewind Section
      • Dancer - rewind
      • Lay On Roll

For In Line Presses Only

  • Lamination Unit
  • Rotary Die Cutter Station
  • Waste Removal Unit

For Corrugated Sheet Presses

  • Feed section
    • Feed gate
    • Side or feed guide
    • Back Stop
    • Rotating Lead Edge Feeder
    • Suction Device
    • Board transfer system
      • Vacuum Transfer
      • Pull Roll Collars
    • Rotary Die Cutter Station


Simulated Print Faults

  • Adhesion
  • Bad Waste Ejection
  • Bad Waste Removal
  • Bleeding
  • Blocking
  • Bounce
  • Brittleness of Ink
  • Chattering
  • Color Off
  • Comet Streak
  • Creasing Instead of Cutting
  • Crushed Board
  • Curling
  • Cut to Print Register
  • Cutting Instead of Creasing
  • Die Cutting through Liner
  • Dirty Print
  • Distortion of Plate
  • Distortion of Substrate
  • Donuts
  • Dot Gain
  • Double inking
  • Dragging
  • Dropped Dots
  • Explosion
  • Feathering on Trailing Edges
  • Fill-in
  • Film Shrinking
  • Fish Eyes
  • Flooding
  • Ghosting
  • Grease Stains
  • Halo
  • Ink Rotation
  • Ink Starvation
  • Laminate to Print Register
  • Laminate Width
  • LFL Problem
  • Lines
  • Mark
  • Marks on Web Edge
  • Mis Register
  • Misregister (print-structure)
  • Missing Labels
  • Moire
  • Mottle
  • No More Laminate
  • No Printing
  • No Slitting
  • No Substrate
  • Not Creasing
  • Not Cutting
  • Picking
  • Pinholing
  • Poor Creasing
  • Press Stop
  • Printed Dust
  • Production Width
  • Repeat Length
  • Reticulation
  • Roll Not Shippable
  • Scratches
  • Screening
  • Set Off
  • Skipout
  • Slitter Jam
  • Slur
  • Splashing
  • Stack Not Conform
  • Start Sequence
  • Striations
  • Substrate Burnt
  • Tracking
  • Trapping
  • Uncut Flats, Poorly Cut Flats
  • Undesired Odor
  • Uneven Print Colors
  • Unreadable Bar Code
  • VOC Level
  • Wash Boarding
  • Web Break
  • Wrinkles
  • Wrong Color
  • Wrong Cutting Length
  • Wrong Density
  • Wrong Design


Diagnostic Help System

  • possible causes of current problems