Kradolf, 20.02.2013

Header 1: Pantec RHINO™ foil embossing system adds value to Gallus TCS 250 at French printer Aset-Bidoit 

Aset-Bidoit, a leading French premium wine label printer, upgraded two of their Gallus TCS with RHINO™, a flat bed foil embossing system by Pantec GS Systems. Aset-Bidoit, already convinced by their first RHINO™ in a rotary press, wanted to bring its efficiency and quality also onto their semi-rotary presses. The retrofit of RHINO™ into the TCS is straight forward and simple. Pantec GS Systems technicians executed the entire retrofit directly by themselves.

3D foil embossed labels are drawing significantly higher attention on the point of sales due to their outstanding appearance. For these premium “flat bed embossing” look labels, inline efficiency was available for rotary systems only, so far. Now, semi-rotary presses can be equipped with the RHINO™ flatbed system also, achieving much more than just a leap in quality.

Rotary foiling is limiting the speed of the press, especially with uncoated and structured papers. The advantage of print repeat flexibility of semi-rotary presses results in partial usage of the printing cylinder circumference. Depending on the system only 50 to 80% is used. When talking about the press output on the roll, people often do not consider that the process speed on the cylinder may be twice as much, forcing the machine speed to be reduced for an acceptable quality.

Flat bed foiling with RHINO™ increases dwell time by at least factor 7. Therefore foiling on uncoated papers is much faster inline with RHINO™. Peter Frei, CEO of Pantec GS Systems says: “Some semi-rotary presses basically double speed with RHINO™, when stamping uncoated materials. Therefore, a RHINO™ into a semi-rotary press not only makes a printer to a strong player in foil embossing, but he gets a major performance increase.” 

About Pantec GS Systems
Pantec GS Systems, located in Kradolf, Switzerland, is specialised in efficient, high quality refining for the printing industry, providing leading in-line systems for Hot Foil Stamping and Embossing, Foil Saving, Hologram Application and Security Perforation.

http://www.pantecgssystems.com

For further details please contact: 

Media Relations 
Pantec Engineering AG
Michael Damm
Tel: +423 377 13 33 | mobile: +43 664 884 24 450
michael.damm@pantec.com   

At the Company
Pantec GS Systems
Peter Frei
Tel: +41 71 644 98 98

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