The Bobst Master M6 OneECG press for short-run flexible packaging

Bobst Master M6

During the ongoing Bobst Days 2021, Ludovico Frati, product manager at Bobst, and Daragh Whelan, OneECG process managing director at Bobst, talked about short runs in flexible packaging. And how Bobst'south inline narrow web unit of measurement-to-unit flexo presses together with oneECG printing can help wide web convertors stay profitable in the face of customer demand for shorter run lengths.

Whelan said that the Bobst Primary M6 flexo printing delivers consistent results on unlimited substrates for convertors eyeing the brusque-run business. He said that the M6 could produce IML, compress sleeves, and wrap-effectually labels. It tin process standard materials such as BOPP, some LDPs, and the new generation MDOP materials in flexible packaging. The M6 can also do lamitubes, alufoils, and also some folding cartons. "This is a very versatile press and is equipped with the extended colour gamut printing," Whelan said.

Extended color gamut – OneECG

OneECG is Bobst's extended colour gamut (ECG) technology deployed beyond analog and digital press processes in characterization, flexible packaging, folding carton, and corrugated lath industries. ECG is a process to digitize color matching, thus making it stable, like shooting fish in a barrel, repeatable, consequent, and contained of human interpretation.

ECG refers to a set of inks – 4 and beyond, but typically seven inks to achieve a color gamut larger than the traditional CMYK, enabling colour repeatability irrespective of the operator's skill. ECG makes sense considering make owners and consumers perceive color variations as lacking product quality, heavily affecting make identity and client loyalty. A brand's signature colors should be consequent irrespective of the printing process, the substrate, and the state where the packaging is produced.

Benefits of the Bobst Master M6 oneECG press

During the presentation, Whelan compared the Bobst Master M6 oneECG press with the conventional flexo presses and shared some numbers. He said that the M6 requires i prepare against ii for conventional flexo, has vii plates compared to equally many as fourteen, the number of ink mixes (Pantone) is zero compared to six in a traditional flexo press. The full make-fix material for M6 is l meters compared to 200 meters in a conventional press, and the first chore make-ready time is x minutes versus 60 minutes in traditional flexo. The full make-ready fourth dimension of the M6 is ten minutes versus 90 minutes for a conventional narrow spider web flexo press.

"When we speak to the customers, they say that the biggest benefit of the oneECG M6 is that they tin can increase the meters [produced] and also if the format size is small, they tin practice many different SKUs across the spider web," he said.

Whelan said that the drastically shorter make-ready time of M6 ways the printing is useful for brusk-run flexible packaging work. Frati summed upwards the presentation and said that the M6 is platonic for mid and brusk-run flexible packaging work, offers high uptime for greater profitability, and helps convertors broaden their offerings.

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