Narrow web Printing machines

Jack,

I want to design a control panel, PLC,Drive selection for narrow web flexographic printing machine. Could you guide me to any details of Electrical Design webpages for 13,17,20 inch web which would help me to understand basics of Electrical design

Are you an electronics technician? Are you a machinist? Why would you design and build such equipment when there is little doubt it can be bought straight off the shelf.

I am a mechanic and maintenance technician as well as a printer. I would never dream of designing and building such gear.

Which presses are you running, i.e., manufacturer, model numbers, and unit configuration?

I can help you by showing you where to find the equipment without having to invent the wheel. One advantage you have in the so-called developing countries, is that the wheel has already been invented and built and is waiting for you on a shelf, probably in the same establishment where the presses you are running were built.

j.

I am new to printing technology . I want to update myself with PLC controlled machineries which are using Indramat drives and controls. Please help me to find website which could give me basic principle of narrow web with electronic contolled tension devices, with motor controlled web splicers of web, auto adjusting web guides and UV controlled dry stations with cooling devices and also automatic web break detection.

Please contact me at vijay.gujjar@gmail.com

vjay,

You are apparently a second inquirer as to narrow web insofar as the first one specified, when queried, he was interested in flexographic narrow web.

Nonetheless, you lay out a whole series of things you would like to know and state that you are a beginner.

I am an old printer, among other things, and I can tell you you will not get the information you need simply by asking for it here on the web, and if you did it would be useless to you. It would be useless because while print, no matter which technique, is based
on firm technological foundations, the practice of printing is as much an art as a technology.

My best advice is to get a job in a shop using the process you are interested in, flexo, photo-offset, gravure, etc., and become knowledgeable about the process in a physical way. At the same time hit the books and learn the chemistry, the inks, the mechanics both as to machine functions and as well the mechanics of, for instance, ink lay-down or transfer, paper, etc.

j.