To reduce make-ready time and production costs, Roland InlineFoiler Prindor from manroland offers revolutionary cold foil technology with additional value added potential for those printing companies who seek to cater packaging, labels, commercial print jobs innovately.

Consistent value addition in print products and a wide product portfolio are core strengths of a printing company. Superior print products that cater to a larger target audience can set a printer apart from its peers in the industry. Helping printers achieve that objective, engineers at manroland have been consistently working on research and development of new production techniques. The latest product from manroland’s stable is the revolutionary ‘cold foil’ technology, enabling to produce enhanced quality in packaging, label and commercial print jobs through inline overprinting of the metallic images in the printing units downstream of the unit where the foil is applied. These images are only separated from the carrier foil and transferred to the paper in the areas where adhesive ink has been applied. Additional costs for expensive embossing forms, as with the hot-foil process, are eliminated, as these are additional outside production steps. The cold foil can be handled inline, thus minimising the steps in the process chain, which means the order can be executed faster.

In comparison to hot-foil stamping, the cold-foil application enables ultra-fine lines and elements to be reproduced and captured. It is a characteristic that has proved its worth in packaging printing when it comes to integrating security elements. The printing units can be used as normal printing units if foil applications are not involved. Changeover requires only a few manual operations. The Roland InlineFoiler Prindor is available for the Roland 500 as an upgrade, and can likewise be retrofitted for the Roland 700 HiPrint series as from the year 2004.

The Roland InlineFoiler Prindor can reproduce full solids, the finest details and line elements as well as halftone areas. Cold foils are available in different colour tones and surface properties (glossy, matt) and also with holographic effects but the basic structure of all of them is the same. The respective colour impression comes from colourisation of the protective coating layer.

Inks and coatings: Overprinting the foil image areas with 4C process inks can result in an impressive colour space. For this, most jobs can only be produced with one type of foil (silver). Conventional applications are possible on coated or uncoated paper, board, absorbent or structured substrates. Conventional applications on coated substrates can be overprinted using UV. Protective coating is however recommended for overprinting with high ink coverage.

Blanket: For cold-foil enhancement, a specific application blanket is used instead of a conventional one. Besides distortion-free foil guidance in the application nip gap, the blanket scores in terms of optimum transfer of the metalised solids, screens and details, due to special surface properties.

Cold-foil adhesive: The adhesive ink for cold-foil transfer with sheetfed presses is an oil-based ink with a reduced number of pigments and higher tack which is elementarily important for a complete and perfect separation of the foil layer from the carrier material. Quality variations during production are minimised by continuous regulation of the adhesive ink feed. Ink density can be densitometrically recorded and regulated during production. Consumables: Under the system brand of printcom, manroland offers a start-up set of process-compliant system components for technically flawless commissioning of the Roland InlineFoiler Prindor.

As a part of their expansion plans, one of the largest players in the printing and packaging sector in India, Parksons Packaging has signed a deal with manroland India for multiple high capacity six-colour R700 HiPrint sheetfed offset presses. The order also includes full UV equipment from Eltosch, Germany, manroland’s strategic partner for all UV equipment. The company chose manroland as its high performance business partner owing to the upgradation flexibility and production reliable technology offered by manroland presses.

The R700 HiPrint presses for Parksons Packaging are high capacity six-colour sheetfed offset presses equipped with Power Plate Loading – a semi-automatic plate changing system with coating module for dispersion coating with chrome-plated double-size impression cylinder, Roland SelectDryer for IR/Thermo air drying and the unique AirGlide delivery feature which produces perfectly even stacks at high press speeds, owing to the particularly flat sheet ascent and long sheet stabilization path.

PressManager Perfect, the workflow performance software from manroland for networking and integration makes printing up to several times faster. It can store all job data in a central database with a master database for inks, customers and substrate parameters. It also features the Central job management for networked Roland PC-controlled presses wherein filter functions for specific selection of jobs can be stored for repeat jobs with multiple layer working. Printers can create MIS reports wherein graphics and tabular display of important production data can be saved (such as job start / finish; wash-ups; plate changing, production). Additionally, the press is loaded with TelePresence – Service Portal, an Industrial PC with the TelePresence software, a machine diagnostic programme, enabling remote diagnosis of the press by authorized qualified staff without visiting actual site and its maintenance manager module providing individualised, condition-oriented press maintenance.

Parksons Packaging is one of the country’s largest packaging and printing establishments, combining over fifty years of experience in the printing and packaging industry with a global forward thinking approach to provide its customers with the best packaging solutions. Today, Parksons is one of the largest producers of high quality folding cartons in India, catering to some of the best known brands and category leaders in the FMCG, food & beverages, pharmaceutical, electronic, retail, apparel and consumer goods industries. Apart from its impressive Indian clientele, Parksons is increasingly catering to packaging requirements of international companies.

“Our alliance with Parksons validates the perception of manroland India as one of the premier printing solutions provider in India, catering to market leaders in the printing and packaging industry. We are confident that our presses will enable Parksons to significantly enhance and achieve outstanding print quality standards to further amplify their national and international footprint,” commented Neeraj Dargan, general manager (sheetfed), manroland India.