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PackSim-Flexo Description
Production Information
- Good and bad copies printed
- Time and cost of the print run
Training History
- Problems solved (per operator)
- Predefined problems and print faults
- Operator Actions
- Console Adjustments
- Press Adjustments/ Repairs
- Densitometer and Magnifier
measurements
- Use of Help System
- Time and Cost /Action
- Result of Action (print better or worse)
- Overall results and production costs
- Total Production Time
- Total Downtime
- Cost/Impression
- Total Time and Cost
QC Tools
- Manual densitometer
- Adhesion test
- VOC level
- Spectrophotometer (Lab, Lch, delta Lab)
- Magnifier
Press Customization
- Multimedia images, movies, texts, etc. may be integrated in the simulator to better describe the workings of your own press
- Trainer editor makes it possible to create your own materials, product costs, press configurations, and print jobs.
Material Selection
- Paper, Film, and foil rolls (structural and surface properties)
- Corrugated sheet rolls (structural and surface properties)
- Inks (color, pH, viscosity)
- Printing Plates (thickness, Durometer)
- Tape (thickness, Durometer)
- Aniloxes (screen rule, cell volume)
- Doctor Blades (thickness, material)
Console Actions
For Web Presses
- Reelstand pressure
- Side-lay (lateral) web position
- Nip pressures and tensions
For Corrugated Sheet Presses
- Feeder controls (position of guides, opening gate)
- Board Transfer controls
For All Presses
- Inking pressure
- Printing pressure
- Doctor blades or fountain roll pressure
- Ink pump speed
- Viscosity and pH sensors
- Dryer temperature and airflow
- UV curing level
- Print Register
Console Log
- Operator actions
Press Components
General Components
- Print Unit
- Ink
- Fountain Roll
- Doctor Blade
- Mounted Anilox Cylinder
- Anilox Roll
- Gear - anilox
- Plate Cylinder Unit
- Plate cylinder
- Circumferential Reg. Collar
- Slide Reg. Collar
- Gears - plate cylinder
- Printing Plate
- Mounting Tape
- Dryers
- UV Curing
- Heat Source
- Drying Chamber
- Supply Fan
- Exhaust Fan
- Air Conditioning Device
For Web Presses (Central Impression and In Line)
- Unwind section
- Brake
- Nip Roll System
- Web Cleaner
- Infeed Section
- Anti-static system
- Corona treatment
- Idler rolls
- Web Guide System
- Chill Rollers
- Web Viewer
- Slitter
- Rewind Section
- Dancer - rewind
- Lay On Roll
For In Line Presses Only
- Lamination Unit
- Rotary Die Cutter Station
- Waste Removal Unit
For Corrugated Sheet Presses
- Feed section
- Feed gate
- Side or feed guide
- Back Stop
- Rotating Lead Edge Feeder
- Suction Device
- Board transfer system
- Vacuum Transfer
- Pull Roll Collars
- Rotary Die Cutter Station
Simulated Print Faults
- Adhesion
- Bad Waste Ejection
- Bad Waste Removal
- Bleeding
- Blocking
- Bounce
- Brittleness of Ink
- Chattering
- Color Off
- Comet Streak
- Creasing Instead of Cutting
- Crushed Board
- Curling
- Cut to Print Register
- Cutting Instead of Creasing
- Die Cutting through Liner
- Dirty Print
- Distortion of Plate
- Distortion of Substrate
- Donuts
- Dot Gain
- Double inking
- Dragging
- Dropped Dots
- Explosion
- Feathering on Trailing Edges
- Fill-in
- Film Shrinking
- Fish Eyes
- Flooding
- Ghosting
- Grease Stains
- Halo
- Ink Rotation
- Ink Starvation
- Laminate to Print Register
- Laminate Width
- LFL Problem
- Lines
- Mark
- Marks on Web Edge
- Mis Register
- Misregister (print-structure)
- Missing Labels
- Moire
- Mottle
- No More Laminate
- No Printing
- No Slitting
- No Substrate
- Not Creasing
- Not Cutting
- Picking
- Pinholing
- Poor Creasing
- Press Stop
- Printed Dust
- Production Width
- Repeat Length
- Reticulation
- Roll Not Shippable
- Scratches
- Screening
- Set Off
- Skipout
- Slitter Jam
- Slur
- Splashing
- Stack Not Conform
- Start Sequence
- Striations
- Substrate Burnt
- Tracking
- Trapping
- Uncut Flats, Poorly Cut Flats
- Undesired Odor
- Uneven Print Colors
- Unreadable Bar Code
- VOC Level
- Wash Boarding
- Web Break
- Wrinkles
- Wrong Color
- Wrong Cutting Length
- Wrong Density
- Wrong Design
Diagnostic Help System
- possible causes of current problems
