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Pantec RHINO foil embossing system adds value to Gallus TCS 250 at French printer Aset-Bidoit

Tuesday 26. February 2013 - Aset-Bidoit, a leading French premium wine label printer, upgraded two of their Gallus TCS with RHINOô, a flat bed foil embossing system by Pantec GS Systems.

Aset-Bidoit, already convinced by their first RHINOô in a rotary press, wanted to bring its efficiency and quality also onto their semi-rotary presses. The retrofit of RHINOô into the TCS is straight forward and simple. Pantec GS Systems technicians executed the entire retrofit directly by themselves.
3D foil embossed labels are drawing significantly higher attention on the point of sales due to their outstanding appearance. For these premium ìflat bed embossingî look labels, inline efficiency was available for rotary systems only, so far. Now, semi-rotary presses can be equipped with the RHINOô flatbed system also, achieving much more than just a leap in quality.
Rotary foiling is limiting the speed of the press, especially with uncoated and structured papers. The advantage of print repeat flexibility of semi-rotary presses results in partial usage of the printing cylinder circumference. Depending on the system only 50 to 80% is used. When talking about the press output on the roll, people often do not consider that the process speed on the cylinder may be twice as much, forcing the machine speed to be reduced for an acceptable quality.
Flat bed foiling with RHINOô increases dwell time by at least factor 7. Therefore foiling on uncoated papers is much faster inline with RHINOô. Peter Frei, CEO of Pantec GS Systems says: ìSome semi-rotary presses basically double speed with RHINOô, when stamping uncoated materials. Therefore, a RHINOô into a semi-rotary press not only makes a printer to a strong player in foil embossing, but he gets a major performance increase.”