W&H Soloflex CI printing press

F16060

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Machine	W&H Soloflex CI printing press
Reference number	F16060
Machine manufacturer	W&H
Model	Soloflex
CI or stack	Cl
Gearless	No
Type of inks	Solventbased
Year	1999
Number of colors	8
Max. web width	850
Max. printing width	820
Min. – Max. printing repeat	250 - 600 mm
Max. mechanical speed	200 m/min
Material & Min – Max thickness	LDPE 20 – 150 my PP, Polyamide 20 – 60 my HD-PE, OPP, cellophane - max 120 my Paper 25 – 120 gm2
Unwind type	Semi-Automatic turret
Max. unwind reel diameter	600 mm
Rewind type	Semi-Automatic turret
Max. rewind reel diameter	600 mm
Edge guide(s)	Yes, BST
Video camera	Yes, Tecscan 3 chip camera + Stroboscope
Number of aniloxes	18 (see pdf)
Number of sleeves	44 (see pdf)
Number of gears	124 (see pdf)
Manuals available	Yes
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Spare parts	3 doctor blades
Special characteristics	Perfect condition!
Available from	Now
Machine can be seen in production?	Yes

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.

W&H, Windmöller & Hölscher
The W&H Group produces extruders, printing presses en converting machines. For more than 140 years W&H has been manufacturing converters for flexible packaging. They have sold over 5000 machines in more than 140 countries. This German based company has its plant in Lengerich. www.wuh.com