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PackSim-Gravure Description

The PackSim-Gravure simulator puts a complete press - from unwind to web conditioner to print units to rewind ( or to cutter/creaser ) - at the user’s fingertips. It operates on a standard micro-computer, using a high resolution graphics card and two large monitors. One of the monitors displays the press control console, and the second monitor shows the printed result.

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Production information
Good and bad footage 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

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

Material selection

Solvent Ink (color, viscosity)
Water based ink (pH, color, viscosity)
Doctor Blades (thickness, material)
Cylinder and impression roller (diameter)
Unsupported foil, supported foil and film (color, structural and surface properties)

Corrugated sheet rolls (color, structural and surface properties)
Inks (color, pH, viscosity)
Printing Plates (thickness, Durometer)
Tape (thickness, Durometer)

Console actions

For reel to reel configuration

Reelstand pressure
Side-lay (lateral) web position
Nip pressures and tensions
Web conditioner (corona treatment)
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

Additional actions for cutter creaser configuration

Shunt height
Decurler

QC Tools

Manual densitometer
Magnifier

Press components

Reelstand
Reel
Substrate
Splice
Festoon
Infeed
Input Web guide
Web conditionner
Print Unit
- Ink
  - Ink pump
  - Ink sump
  - Ink pan
  - Splash guard
  - Ink applicator
- Electro static assistance
- Doctor Blade assembly
- Plate Cylinder Unit
  - Drive
  - cylinder
- Impression roller
- Dryers
  - LEL detector
  - Dryer fan zone 1 & 2
  - Exhaust recircurling 1 & 2

Output web guide
Rewind
Current reel
New roll

Additionnal component for cutter creaser configuration

Dancer roller
Metering roller
Die chase

Corks
Rules
Knives

Kicker roller
Stripper roller
Tab breaker
Delivery table

Simulated printing faults

Adhesion
Bent Flaps
Bleeding
Blocking
Broken Nicks
Bubble under the cylinder surface
Chatter
Chrome streak
Coating
Color off
Curling
Cutter Jam
Cutting Register
Cylinder mark
Delivery Jam
Dents in boxes
Distorted image
Dragging
Drying Problems
Hazing
Hole in web
Image Retransfer
Impression roller damage
Incomplete transfer of ink from cells
Initial patch up to be done
Ink flow
Ink splash
Kicker Jam
Lines
Missing print

Missing Scores
Mottle
Paper Slivers
Picking
Pinholes
Press Stop
Press Won’t Start
Register
Register + Distorted image
Screening
Scuffing
Sharp Scores
Sheet Breaks Loose
Sheet Skew
Slitting
Smashed Knives
Solvent Retention
Splicing
Static
Stripper Jam
Tab Breaker Jam
Torn Box
Trapping
Trim on Delivery
Uncut Flaps
Volcanoes
Web break
Wrinkle
Wrinkles

Diagnostic help system

possible causes for current problems

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