Rahul Mathur sales engineer Genius Flexo, Benoit Demol CEO Codimag France and Vijay Pareek managing director Genius Flexo at the Genius Flexo stand in Hall three at Printpack India 2019.

Nosotros had an opportunity at Printpack to meet Codimag at the Genius Flexo stand in Hall 3.

Codimag is a French company that manufactures an interesting label press that combines two interesting ideas – starting time printing with anilox inking. The tertiary chemical element is to provide semi-rotary blanket and finishing options.

The idea is to come up with a label printing that can evangelize the very high quality of loftier resolution outset printing and the relative ease of printing with flexography, which transfers stock-still amounts of inks using the cell depth and design of the anilox rollers to determine the quantity of ink without much variation. Using dry first plates and anilox inking also eliminates the need to attain and maintain ink-water residue.

The idea of Aniflo is not dissimilar to that of Heidelberg'due south Anicolor used on its smaller multicolor sheetfed kickoff presses or that of Chiliad&B'south Cortina web first paper printing, just Codimag says that it is the kickoff to use the concept for narrow spider web characterization presses. Dry outset plates are of course much cheaper than flexo plates and as well take almost 4 minutes to make.

Codimag's Viva Evolution series of presses employ waterless offset plates from Toray for their 6- or 7-color printing units. The 7-color fixed set with CMYKOGV offers an extended gamut solution for producing most, if not all, of the spot and brand colors needed for labels. A flexo unit of measurement is used for varnishes. Both rotary and flatbed options are available for hot foil stamping and for embossing. Screen printing with semi-rotary screens is an option. For inline opaque white applications, there is an optional ink-jet bar from Xaar which offers loftier opacity that can supercede traditional screen printing with similar quality and speeds.

The Codimag Viva comes in two widths – 340 mm and 420 mm. The Codimage Viva Evolution in the 340 mm width is the press designed for short-run labels and is claimed by the company to be competitive with digital – lowering converters' break-even in comparison to digital label presses in the 250 meter to 1300 meter range.

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