Caps & Closures Production
45,000 caps/hour single-pass line with automated loading, pre-treatment, inspection, and packaging integration.
Technology · Systems Engineering
Print is only part of the solution.
Integrated Production Systems.
A custom-engineered production cell that combines the right print engine with loading, pre-treatment, inspection, and unloading — designed around your part, built in Vermont, supported for life. True ROI comes from the entire production cell, not the printer alone.
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Automated Loading Robot pick-and-place inside guarded cell
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Pre-Treatment Plasma / corona / flame upstream of print
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Print Engine Single-pass DTO print station + HMI
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Inline Inspection Vision + reject handling
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Auto Sort & Unload Conveyance, sort, package, secondary ops
An EPS-engineered integrated production system — the five building blocks (numbered above) mapped to a real line.
40+
Years of line integration
5
Building blocks per line
24/7
Production duty cycles
1
Engineering team end-to-end
From the first 100 single-pass installations
“Success is a manufacturing system, not a stand-alone printer.”
That's the headline of six lessons EPS captured when we shipped our 100th single-pass DTO system. The other five — automation drives most of the ROI, application knowledge is essential, pre-treatment is 50% of success, color management is its own discipline, and 24/7 service is non-negotiable — live on a dedicated page.
Read the six lessons →
The five building blocks
What EPS integrates into one production cell.
Five stations — the same five numbered on the production-line diagram above. Select the optional add-ons your part needs, skip the ones it doesn't. The combination is what makes the cell.
STEP 01
Automated Loading
Hoppers, waterfall feeders, vibratory bowls, air conveyors, robot pick-and-place — engineered to keep the print engine fed at line rate without operator intervention.
STEP 02
Pre-Treatment
Plasma, corona, and flame surface treatment integrated upstream. Pre-treatment is non-negotiable almost 100% of the time for production-grade adhesion.
STEP 03
Printing
Pad, multi-pass inkjet, or single-pass production inkjet — the right print engine for the part. Each tier integrates the same way into the line architecture.
STEP 04
Inspection
100% inline vision inspection and reject handling. Sample-based QA is not a substitute when the production cell is running 24/7.
STEP 05
Auto Sorting & Unloading
Sorting, stacking, packaging, secondary operations. The line doesn't end when the ink is cured — EPS engineers the downstream too.
Real systems shipping today
Real cells. Real customers. Real floors.
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Pick and Place Robotics
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Who this fits
Is full-line integration the right answer for your line?
Your decoration step is solved — but the line around it is the bottleneck. Loading is manual. Pre-treatment is inconsistent. Inspection happens after the fact. EPS engineers the entire cell as one system.
Right fit when
- 24/7 production duty cycles with limited operator availability
- Pre-treatment, decoration, and inspection currently on separate cells
- Throughput limited by part handling, not by the print engine
- Reject handling and quality verification need to be automated
- You want a single accountable engineering team, not 4 vendors
Not sure which technology fits your line?
Five questions about your manufacturing environment. We recommend the optimal EPS process and platform — with no sales call required.
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