Printing/Bindery Solutions

The Chargemaster System uses opposite polarity, high voltage DC charges to tack ribbons together. This action displaces the laminar airflow between ribbons and the ribbons gain strength from the intense but temporary static charge. The ribbons are now easily moved through to finishing with 'dog-ears' and creases prevented.

On the saddle stitcher, many cards can end up on the bindery floor. The problem can be practically eliminated by immediately pinning the catalog closed once the card has been inserted. A charging applicator placed over the signature just as they close will trap the card in place preventing fall outs.

A strong static charge can cause sheets on the feed pile of a sheet fed press, or other sheet fed equipment, to stick together. This can result in multiple sheet pick-up and sheet registration problems leading to periodic press jams. To fix the problem, R55 Ionizing Air Nozzles can be mounted at the top of the feed pile -fluttering the sheets with ionized air and removing the static charge that causes the sheets to stick together.

On perfect bound lines, card inserts often overshoot the target area because of the speed of the line. Applying a static charge to the card as it hits the page effectively holds the card in place. The card will not slide into the spine and accidental gluing will be prevented.

SIMCO Chargemaster BP-30 power supply and Pinner Superbar charge catalogs just prior to stacking. As a result, the catalogs become flat and snap onto the stack, electrostatically adhering to each other. The catalogs are held together in a tight, registered stack as they proceed through the overwrapping and shrinkwrapping processes. Jams and edge damage are eliminated and throughput rate is increased. Use of strapping equipment is reduced or eliminated.

The Chargemaster system uses high voltage to pin the web to the chill-roll at the first point of contact. Pinning the web to the chill-roll prevents slippage and eliminates condensation streaking. Preventing slippage also reduces tension upsets and improves registration throughout the press.

Static charges on an open web can attract dirt, shock operators and cause product defects. A Blue Bar will neutralize the static charges, eliminating production problems. The Blue Bar neutralizes static charges on webs at speeds to 2500 fpm at 1 and can be mounted up to 6 from the web at slower speeds.

A Simco Ion-O-Vac Mark I sheet cleaner is ideal for removing dust and particulate from sheets in a sheet fed press. The Mark I can improve productivity because fewer press stops will be required to clean the blanket cylinder. The quality of printed output will also increase because hickeys, voids and crows’-feet will be greatly reduced. Finally, the work environment will be cleaner: less paper dust and reduced spray powder contamination when sheets are run through the press multiple times.

Slitter Dust, chaff from sheeting, and other environmental contaminants on the surface of the corrugated material make it impossible to achieve production goals and difficult to maintain quality print standards. Neutro-vac Web and Sheet Cleaning Systems effectively remove slitter dust, chaff from sheeting and other contaminants from the surface of corrugated material.

RFID tags contain an antennae to enable them to receive and respond to radio-frequency queries from an RFID transceiver. The microchip contained in an RFID tag can be damaged by static electricity. Static charges are commonly found in tag and label printing/production operations anywhere along the path from the feed-roll to the rewind. The charges are generated by the contact and separations of the web material from the unwind roll, and as the material travels over the various rollers and pro

On perfect bound lines, card inserts often overshoot the target area because of the line speed. Also, it may not exactly match the line speed hence the card may slide backwards which results in bad positioning on the package. Apply a static charge with the charging bar to the card as it hits the page to effectively hold the card in place.

The sheet pile at the feeder section of the printing machine may have a static charge which causes the sheet (substrate) to stick to the pile and misfed into the machine. Once the squeegee has realized its printing stroke and the screen is lifted, the substrate may stick to the screen, causing smearing. The substrate may also stick electrostatically to the screen bed and cause misalignment. Misbehavior on its path through the dryer, and incorrect piling at the delivery, attraction of airborne co