Products
round, oval and rectangular items such as plastic jars, glass bottles, glass drinkware, items can be slightly tapered

Performance
production rate         up to 80 items/min

Product Dimensions
diameter        30 - 100 mm 
length            30 - 220 mm

Printing Stations
up to 3

Application
The servo-based RS 3480 is designed for multi-colour decoration with UV inks of glass or plastic items at high production speeds; servo drives for all printing movements reduce changeover times. Reliability and speed make the RS 3480 ideal for 24/7 production.

Features
The RS 3480 is designed for decorating items such as bottles, cosmetic jars etc. The RS 3480 features a rotary indexing ring designed for heavy duty use; the ring has 10 stations, each has a station head with a fixture.

The RS 3480 can print onto complex-shaped items that have cross sections with linear, circular and oval elements. An advanced motion controller synchronises the print movements of four servo-driven axes in each printing station: print head (screen and squeegee), screen, squeegee, and fixture. The synchronised movements of these axes during printing ensure that a squeegee edge stays in contact with the printing area while the squeegee follows the cross‑section contour of the printing area.
One-pass multi-colour printing onto complex-shaped jars, bottles or drinking glasses is made possible; for example, a wrap-around can be printed onto a square item that has rounded corners.

Standard Features

• Rotary indexing table
• Solid welded frame
• Infeed conveyor
• Automatic loading station
• Surface cleaning station
• In each printing station
• Servo drive for screen (horizontally)
• Servo drive for squeegee (horizontally)
• Servo drive for printing head (vertically)
• Floating squeegees
• UV drying stations
• Automatic unloading station
• Outfeed conveyor
• Integrated machine and servo control system
• Process visualisation with PC and touch screen
• Job storage and recall facilities
• Automatic machine pre-setting
• Remote diagnostics

Optionen

• Printing onto round items only
• Printing along the axis of a printing station
• Screen heating
• Flaming station
• Turning station (items up side down on conveyor)
• Only optical orientation
• Only mechanical orientation
• Print inspection
• UVitro surface treatment

An RS 3480 can be integrated with ancillary equipment, such as depalletiser, buffer, lehr (for glass decoration), palletiser, packaging machine, to form an integrated screen printing production system.