Brussels: Gallus announced new additions to its latest portfolio of presses that include the Gallus Labelfire 340 Digital, the Labelmaster and the ECS 340 flex presses.
The Labelfire now comes with a new digital embellishment unit whilst it can also be fitted onto the Labelmaster and ECS series flexo presses.
This new digital embellishing unit (DEU) innovation is a joint development by three Swiss companies – Steinemann Technology and Gallus, both from St Gallen, and Schmid Rhyner from Adliswil.
Using inkjet technology, the DEU is able to carry out in-line coating digitally and apply matt, gloss and tactile spot coating effects to the substrate web in various thicknesses.
This digital embellishment unit with the new head, probably the Ricoh printhead, is capable of producing gloss and matt spot coatings and tactile relief effect in a single pass, all using atmospheric UV inkjet coatings. It can be integrated into the Gallus Labelfire, the ECS or the Labelmaster. It supports coating volumes up to 100 gsm with a resolution of 600 x 600 (native/physical).
Christof Naier, general manager, sales and services, Gallus Ferd. Ruesch AG said, “Though the DEU at the show is still a prototype, Gallus will launch the kit for integration within the next 12 months.”
Gallus also announced the addition of a new control panel for all Gallus machine platform and Gallus Services.
The M-Call is a new control, a sort of predictive monitoring of the presses, based on data analytics. “This is Gallus’ first step into data analysis. The idea is to proactively protect the customer’s machines from breakdowns,” said Naier.
The Heidelberg Assistant software introduced for Gallus machine platforms will provide the customers with a tool that will enable him to proactively ask for service intervention. Naier added, “The customer can see in real time the performance status of the machine in on his mobile device.”
Gallus’ next announcement was the introduction of the new Phoenix UV LED direct plate setter under the Heidelberg brand. The new exposure systems will be capable of producing printing forms for all the printing process, whether for screen, flexo, offset or letterpress printing.
Gallus claimed that it has over 500 Gallus ECS 340 installed world over, 15 Gallus LabelFire installations in Europe while it has two beta machines of the Labelmaster installed in Switzerland, two more will be up and running in Russia and Latin America. “By the end of March 2018 our target is to have 20 machines running. Most of them have been sold, so I am pretty sure we will achieve the target,” concluded Naier.