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Engineered Printing Solutions (EPS), an industry leader in bespoke product-marking solutions, announced the arrival of its latest cylindrical inkjet printer, the BottleJET 2.0.  The BottleJET 2.0 delivers the same high-quality 1200x900dpi at twice the speed. [Ed.– This model has been superseded by the BottleJet 2.1 bottle printer.]

BottleJET Cylindrical Inkjet PrinterAs the accompanying video shows, the new model is more than twice as fast as its predecessor, and like the previous model, the BottleJET 2.0 can accommodate either flat- or taper-walled objects. With synchronized printing and curing operation, a bottle-detection sensor and a collision sensor, the BottleJET 2.0 can be set up for either manual or automatic operation.  The BottleJET 2.0 will print diameters of 40mm to 140 mm with an image length up to 220mm width.  In addition, the BottleJET can be loaded with jettable varnish or primer for better adhesion to glass and metal. It’s fast, flexible and affordable.

Engineered Printing Solutions was founded in 1985 as Pad Print Machinery of Vermont.  As the company expanded its product offering to include digital inkjet, it changed its name to reflect this new reality.  Today, EPS offers a full range of both pad print and industrial inkjet custom automation solutions for every manufacturing sector. Please call (800) 272-7764 for details on the new BottleJet 2.0.

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EPS' Julian Joffe to Speak at Digital Print for Packaging Europe 2018Engineered Printing Solutions’ founder Julian Joffe is scheduled to speak at the Digital Print for Packaging Europe 2018 (Twitter: @DigitalPrintPacconference on “The challenges of conversion from analog to digital”.  The three-day conference, taking place December 4 – 6 in Berlin, Germany, is Europe’s premier conference dedicated to digital print for packaging. This event covers all hot topics from direct-to-shape, corrugated printing, workflows, the latest market trends and technology updates, as well as case studies from leading brand owners and converters.  You can see the full program here.

EPS Announces New West Coast OfficeEngineered Printing Solutions (EPS) is pleased to announce the opening of a West Coast office in Fremont, California.  “We felt this was necessary in order to better serve our West Coast customers,” said Julian Joffe, President of EPS.  “In addition to stocking consumables such as inks, pads, and printing plates, we will be able to demonstrate industrial inkjet and pad printing solutions right there in our showroom.”  Joffe also cited quicker response times for support calls, as well as lower cost to the customer, as being the impetus to open an office on the West Coast.

Located in the Clipper Court Commerce Center at 46728 Fremont Blvd. in Fremont, California, EPS’ West Coast office is expected to open September 1.

EPS Donates Tagless Printing Equipment

KP05 Pad Printing Machine

March 28—Engineered Printing Solutions (EPS) recently donated a KP05 Pad Printing Machine and a BR35M Exposure Unit to Spectrum Designs, a non-profit custom T-shirt store in Port Washington, NY.

In an effort to counter the 80 percent unemployment rate among adults on the autism spectrum, Spectrum Designs has as its mission to offer gainful employment and meaningful work to individuals within a social enterprise. With the addition of new pad printing equipment from EPS, Spectrum Designs will not only employ an additional worker to print direct-to-garment tagless labels, but Spectrum also has plans to widen their product offering to include customized golf balls, key chains, and many other promotional items that cannot be printed using a silk-screen process.

BR35M

BR35M Exposure Unit

As part of our focus on best-fit solutions for every customer we serve, the Engineered Printing Solutions team includes a full engineering and software development group, technical services, customer service and management team in total, 75 highly-skilled and driven individuals. In pursuit of perfect customer service and satisfaction, we are constantly pushing the envelope, discovering more and more ways to seamlessly incorporate both pad printing and custom industrial inkjet solutions into the customer manufacturing process.

Whether you are an existing customer of EPS, a prospective consumables customer, or use other service providers it is important for you to have a quality assurance process in place. Poor quality clichés adversely impact the quality of the decoration you want printed.

At EPS, we adhere to the highest standards in our quality control procedures. To ensure we deliver on our promise of providing the best services available we recently invested in a new top of the line Zeiss Smartzoom 5 – fully motorized digital microscope.

 

EPS Offers a Turn-Key Solution for Plate-Making

This amazing piece of equipment allows our plate making team to quickly and accurately determine whether a plate falls within specifications during quality control checks. Members of the plate making team are able to check for image depth deviations, defects and imperfections that occur during the etching process. The information is then recorded in the customer’s data (folder/file).

The Smartzoom 5 has greatly improved the capabilities of the plate department over the Nikon measuring microscope that was previously used. This sizeable financial commitment underscores our pledge to deliver quality products to our customers.

Contact us to discuss our full line of pad printing consumables.

written by Debbie Thorp, Business Development Director – Global Inkjet Systems Ltd.  for Screen Print Magazine

 

The digital revolution has its sights on a new challenge, and decorating three-dimensional objects offers no shortage of puzzles or possibilities.

Product decoration using inkjet technology isn’t new – systems have in fact been on the market for many years. But recent developments have made decorating three-dimensional objects (not to be confused with 3D inkjet or additive manufacturing) one of the most talked-about segments in the industry.

Sales of small-format flatbed printers designed for decorating promotional items are increasing; more vendors are entering the market and the systems feature new capabilities. Also, we’ve seen significant developments in the mid- to high-end range of production printers. Systems that were demonstrated at tradeshows a few years ago are now proving themselves in real production environments.

Market Drivers
Personalization and engagement are buzzwords that have been permeating marketing campaigns and social media in recent years with companies vying for “likes” on Facebook and developing ever more innovative ways of enticing us to buy their products. Numerous fast-moving consumer goods companies are now using digital printing technologies to add value to their brands and increase the “user experience.” What arguably started with Coca Cola’s “Share a Coke” campaign has exploded into personalized Nutella jars, Heinz soups, My Heineken bottles, and even customized dog food with Purina’s Just Right range – and there are many, many more examples.

The benefits and drivers for using digital printing technologies are well-known, including cost-effective short runs; just-in-time production; design freedom; no screens, clichés, pads, or time-consuming setup costs; and variable-data capability offering the potential for every product to be different. Then there are the particular advantages that inkjet technology brings as a noncontact technology that can print onto different product shapes – not only flat objects, but also tubes, conical shapes, and even tubs. Inkjet can also print onto structured surfaces, creating unusual visual and haptic effects, enabling decoration in areas not possible with labels. In short, inkjet can potentially operate in the same space as screen, dry offset, and pad printing – and yet offer the additional high-value benefits of a digital print technology.

Skip the Label: Direct-to-Object Inkjet Takes Off
Printing onto spheres, cylinders, and uneven surfaces is a challenge inkjet developers have happily embraced, offering direct print alternatives in applications where pad printing or labels would have been used in the past. Courtesy of Roland DGA.

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Engineered Printing Solutions (East Dorset, VT) will be featuring its latest technologies in both pad and industrial inkjet printing at the 2017 MD&M East Trade Show, being held June 13-15 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY.

This year’s industrial printers include the following:

The fJet-24

The perfect flatbed solution for personalized souvenirs, customized gifts, industrial products and promotional items, this multi-color printer provides quality as high as 1200 dpi, high speed uni- and bi-directional printing and a maximum print area of 20” x 24”. See a complete list of features and watch the video for this popular industrial inkjet printer.

The KP05 360° Catheter Pad Printer

When it comes to printing versatility, this KP05 Pad Printing Machine does not disappoint. It can be used as a single color machine, two color and rotational printer, and be electro-pneumatically controlled with a digital programmable microprocessor for high quality printing.  This particular configuration will be equipped with a vacuum catheter bed for providing the capacity to print any images –bands text etc 360° around the tube within the confines of the 90mm diameter print area of this machine.

For information about Engineered Printing Solutions custom solutions, standard pad printers, industrial inkjet, consumables and other auxiliary equipment, visit www.epsvt.com, email info@epsvt.com or call 1-800-272-7764.

See our technology in action for yourself. Register for the 2017MD&M EAST here and come visit us at Booth #1729.
Contact:
Eric Henzie – Director of Marketing
Engineered Printing Solutions
201 Tennis Way
East Dorset, VT 05253
ehenzie@www.epsvt.com
800-272-7764 ext. 227

Unsharp printing means blurred reproduction of lines or lettering.

PROBLEMSOLUTION
Pad too softUse a harder pad.
Pad wrong shapeUse a different shape
Cliché etching inaccurateMake a new cliché.
Wrong type of screenTest a new cliché with a different screen.
Wrong type of clichéUse the suitable cliché type (e.g., steel in place of polymer).
Etching too deep.Etch a new cliché with less depth.
Ink too thickAdd more thinner.
Ink too thinReduce the amount of thinner.
Slow dryingUse a faster-drying thinner or cliché pause.

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Companies speak of guiding principles, vision statements and of strategic objectives. Companies proudly track significant achievements on timelines as a memorial to their evolution. I think it is important to have this perspective as Carl Sagan once said “You have to know the past to understand the present.”

Since our founding in 1985 we have important events we keep track of, most are facility expansion benchmarks required to keep pace with a continuous increase in projects moving through our shop floor. One of those transformative projects found its way back to the floor recently.

For some it seemed a bit out of place. Older technology, tattered graphics, comments like “it just looks used”. For others it marked an important point in our trajectory as an organization, a turning point that has led us down a pretty incredible path. It was here on our floor again because the client wanted to update it with the latest technology installed on the new printer recently put into production.

This was the first industrial inkjet printer we designed and built in 2009 to bring the customer into the digital manufacturing revolution.  This engineered solution was built to solve two important problems, first to cut labor cost and secondly to cut product loss….Could we design a first of its kind machine, completely unique in their industry in a way that made financial sense?

This new digital machine had to replace six separate rotary table pad printing cells that required nine full time operators running in three shifts a day, seven days a week. There was a perceived need to eliminate inefficiency of changing out inks and clichés after each 144 print count, every day. Production had flat-lined and the product margins were being squeezed by an increase in overtime pay. The project proved difficult but those challenges the team encountered changed our company and the functional teams approach and ultimately our companies’ philosophy. Our (long term) partner broke through their comfort zone and took a risk on an unproven design.

After successful factory acceptance testing the machine was put into production on the facility floor. As the initial weeks went by there was a enthusiasm from the shift staff about the level of production they were achieving. Each day they noticed output improvements and were eventually able to eliminate the weekend shifts. Worker morale improved because the difficult change-out process had been eliminated. The machine software was integrated seamlessly into the internal SAP system helping streamline the ordering process.

A year later a second printer was installed at another site. Finally a third system was ordered in 2014. Each machine took advantage of design improvement and new technologies. LED cure inks became available, resulting in a reduction of energy consumption while eliminating the need for elaborate cooling systems. There was a new smaller more efficient flow through ink management system with better control of ink viscosity

The original printer will be productive on a manufacturing floor again soon.

The machine is not viewed as an eyesore now.  It is viewed as a part of the proud legacy that shaped the direction of our company well into the future. The original project ushered in a new direction for EPS. This project was the catalyst behind the words ‘engineered’ and ‘solutions’ in our company name.

A vision is not where you are now.  A vision is where you want to be in the future. Our partner for this project had a vision and was willing to take a risk that led to completely project cost recovery in three months by reducing the number of operators, overtime and nearly all product waste.