Soma gearless CI printing press

F18024

Machine	Soma gearless CI printing press
Reference number	F18024
Machine manufacturer	Soma
Model	Imperia
CI or stack	Cl
Gearless	Yes
Type of inks	Solventbased
Year	2011
Number of colors	8
Max. web width	1320 mm / repeat 1300 mm
Max. printing width	1270 mm
Min. – Max. printing repeat	360 - 1300 mm
Max. mechanical speed	450 m/min
Material & Min – Max thickness	LDPE: 0.020 – 0.160 mm HDPE/OPP: 0.012 – 0.100 mm CPP: 0.020 – 0.050 mm BOPP, PET, OPA: 0.010 – 0.025 mm Paper: 25 – 120 g/m2 Laminate: 0.02 – 0.12 mm
Unwind type	Non-stop turret
Max. unwind reel diameter	1000 mm
Rewind type	Non-stop turret
Max. rewind reel diameter	1000 mm
Drying type	Gas
Auto-clean	Yes
Number of aniloxes	26
Number of carrier sleeves	32 (4 sets)
Number of sleeves	208
Other information	Falcon 66 automatic impression setting and semi-automatic register system

Subject to unsold. Although believed to be correct, the machine specifications and lists supplied are based solely upon those provided by the original owners.

Flexo printing presses
The first printing press was introduced in 1440. Those presses were used for printing paper and books. There have been a lot of improvements, especially during the industrial revolution when the first industrial printing press was designed. In 1890 the first flexo printer was invented in Liverpool, England.

Flexography, or flexo, is named after the flexible relief plate that is used to print. Flexo printing presses can be used for plastic, film, cellophane and paper. Flexo machines are the most common machines in food packaging. In 1952 the official name for this type of printing was announced: Flexographic process or short, flexography.

Last decades there were also a lot of improvements, especially in the digital printing field and the amounts of colors that a press can use.

There are several types of flexo printing presses: CI presses, stack presses and in-line printing presses. CI stands for Central Impression. Those flexo printing presses have an impression cylinder. Stack presses are used for multi color printing. It is called stack because each color station is stacked vertically. Stack presses have two to eight seperate color stations, sometimes they have two parallel stacks of printing units. The third type of printing presses, the in-line presses, have seperate, horizontal color stations from front to back.