GALAXY

THE FUTURE OF DECORATING CHINA AND CERAMICS


Perfect quality !
Finally, an easy direct printing process offers you the perfect quality solution

Direct printing advantages:
  • the ink is directly transferred to the printable object
  • pre-printing on transfers is not necessary anymore
  • no laborious appliance of the transfers
  • extremely flexible, also for small series
  • always a minutely positioning of the images
  • environment-friendly
  • no waste
The Galaxy solution: This machine is one of our latest developments in the field of decoration on china and ceramics.
The Galaxy machine is a fully automatic printing machine, with automatic product, optical
recognition and positioning of the objects, colour registration, 12-colour printing and automatic
take-up of the decoration
  • modular developed, fully automatic printing system
  • for large series
  • output: till 450 pieces/hour
  • 4 till 12 colours
  • inclusive printing the stamp on the back of the plate
  • automatic colour registration
  • image registration with automatic settings of the printing plates
    for changeovers between series; very quick and easy changeovers
  • diameter of images: till 320 mm
  • can be integrated into the production process
  • excellent quality not seen before in pad printing process!

 

Technical Description:

 The plates are put at random (also stacked) on the supplying conveyor. A lifting device takes one plate at the time from the conveyor and puts it into a diaphragm where the plate is centred and fixed with an accuracy of 1 mm.
The back of the plate is automatically printed with a one-colour backstamp. In the system the pad takes up the ink, turns 180 ° and prints the stamp.

In the following step, the lifting device takes the plate out of the diaphragm and sets it down on a jig fixed on a vertical conveyor (simultaneously, a plate is again lifted from the supplying conveyor and put into the diaphragm).
The plate is now transported to a postioning device. With the help of a vision system, the plate is now positioned with an accuracy of 1/10 mm and than fixed on the jig by a vacuumsystem till the end of the printing process.

The printing process: The fixed plate is now transported to the first printing head (first colour).
The printing-plate with the etched image is inked by a closed ink-system. The servo-driven pad picks up the ink (image) and prints it on the plate. After 10 prints (depending on the number of colours desired), the decoration is finished. The jig stops vacuuming, the plate is lifted off the jig and put onto a conveyor which transports the plates to the following production process.
The plates are printed with thermoplastic inks. These inks need to be fired in the glaze.
Therefore the plates need to be placed in an oven (automatically or manually).
After this process, the decoration will be 100 % scratch- and dishwasher resistant.