2-Color Stack-Type Semi Servo Printing Press （TF-SS02-1000 1200）

Product Overview

The TF-SS02-1000 1200 is a highly customizable 2-color stack-type full servo flexographic press integrated with Siemens technology, designed to deliver high-quality printing across a diverse range of substrates. With a maximum material width of 1200mm and an industry-leading ±0.05mm registration accuracy, this press meets the rigorous demands of high-end packaging and printing sectors. It supports printing on plastic films, various papers, aluminum foils, composite films, and non-woven fabrics, making it an ideal solution for multi-variety production environments. The machine combines advanced stack-type flexographic technology with intelligent control systems, ensuring precise, efficient, and stable printing performance.

Technical Principles & Core Structure

Based on advanced stack-type flexographic technology, the TF-SS02-1000 1200 utilizes 2 independent printing units stacked sequentially to achieve high-precision multi-color registration. Each unit is equipped with international-brand servo motors that independently drive the plate and impression cylinders, ensuring consistent and accurate pressure control throughout the printing process. A closed-chamber doctor blade system works in tandem with precision ceramic anilox rollers to ensure uniform ink transfer to photopolymer plates, resulting in clear and sharp prints on various substrates. The entire system is centrally managed by a Siemens PLC, which integrates high-precision photoelectric encoders for closed-loop tension and registration control. This closed-loop system enables real-time adjustments, minimizing registration deviations and ensuring stable printing even at high speeds.

Key Performance Parameters

1. Design Speed: 220 m/min (actual production speed ranges from 30–170 m/min, depending on substrate type and design complexity)
2. Maximum Material Width: 1200 mm (expandable to 1400mm, 1600mm or larger as required)
3. Print Repeat Length: 360–1000 mm
4. Registration Accuracy: ±0.05mm
5. Anilox Roller Specification: 100–1200 lines per inch with micron-level precision
6. Drying System: Dual-stage electric heating drying system with main oven and inter-color drying configurations
7. Compatible Substrates: Plastic films (PE, OPP, BOPP, CPP, PET, breathable films), various papers (kraft, coated, offset, thin cardstock), adhesive labels, aluminum foils, composite films, non-woven fabrics

Core Competitive Advantages

1. Industry-Leading ±0.05mm Registration Accuracy: Both horizontal and vertical registration are driven by independent motors and precision ball screws, paired with real-time closed-loop feedback from photoelectric rotary encoders. This ensures the press meets the strict registration requirements of high-end sectors such as food and pharmaceutical packaging, where even the slightest deviation can impact product safety and brand image.
2. Fully Automatic Intelligent Impression Control: Each printing unit features a synchronized four-servo motor closed-loop linkage system, which enables automatic pressure detection and correction. Operational parameters are permanently stored in the system, allowing for one-click recall during repeat jobs. The system supports both individual and synchronized unit engagement/disengagement, providing flexibility for different printing tasks.
3. Closed-Chamber Doctor Blade System: The precision CNC-machined alloy chamber is coated with an anti-stick material, ensuring excellent sealing performance to eliminate ink leakage. The tool-free doctor blade design allows for one-step replacement, reducing maintenance time and significantly improving the workshop environment by minimizing ink splashing and waste.
4. Anti-Clogging Anilox Roller Design: Equipped with an independent drive mechanism, the anilox roller rotates automatically when the machine stops or disengages from production. This prevents ink from drying and clogging the roller's mesh, a common industry issue that can cause printing defects and increase maintenance costs.
5. Sleeve Quick-Change Structure: The innovative flip-and-load mechanism enables rapid plate sleeve replacement, reducing changeover time by over 80% compared to traditional models. This is particularly beneficial for enterprises with short-to-medium run lengths and frequent job changes, as it minimizes downtime and improves overall production efficiency.
6. Full-Process Closed-Loop Tension Control: From unwind to rewind, the system provides automatic tension detection and compensation. This prevents registration deviations caused by material stretching or slackening at high speeds, ensuring stable printing from startup to job completion and minimizing material waste.
7. Powerful Two-Stage Electric Drying System: The combination of main oven and inter-color drying configurations delivers high-temperature, high-velocity airflow, ensuring thorough ink drying during high-speed production. This eliminates issues with ink offsetting or buildup, even when printing on absorbent or non-absorbent substrates.
8. Intelligent Centralized Control System: A large-scale touchscreen serves as the central hub for managing all operational parameters. The system supports job recipe storage and historical data tracking, allowing operators to quickly recall optimal parameters for repeat jobs and streamline production changeovers.
9. Deep Flexible Customization: Standard web widths of 1000–1200mm can be expanded to larger specifications such as 1400mm or 1600mm according to customer requirements, enabling the press to adapt to a wide range of printing scenarios.

Target Customer Groups

1. Medium-to-large flexible packaging enterprises: These businesses specialize in roll-to-roll printing on diverse materials including plastic films, paper, and non-woven fabrics, requiring a press that can handle high-volume production with consistent quality.
2. High-precision sectors: Manufacturers serving food, daily chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and label printing segments, where strict registration accuracy and superior printing quality are non-negotiable to meet regulatory and brand standards.
3. Paper product manufacturers: Enterprises focused on printing for paper cups, paper bowls, paper bags, and kraft paper packaging, needing a press that can handle large-scale pre-printing and high-speed production on paper substrates.
4. Multi-variety label producers: Manufacturers specializing in pressure-sensitive adhesive labels, shrink-sleeve labels, and other complex label formats, requiring quick changeover capabilities and precise registration.
5. Factories undergoing equipment upgrades: Facilities looking to replace outdated mechanical-shaft presses or aging servo-driven machinery with a more efficient, intelligent, and high-precision printing solution.
6. Flexible production enterprises: Businesses with short-to-medium run lengths, frequent job changes, high-frequency material switching, and mixed-mode production, benefiting from the press's quick changeover and flexible customization features.
7. Specialized custom-order clients: Customers with requirements for ultra-wide format printing (1400mm+) for industrial packaging or complex multi-color processes for premium packaging applications, who can leverage the press's customizable width and modular design.

Application Scenarios

1. Flexible Packaging: Ideal for high-speed, high-volume printing of food packaging such as snack pouches, stand-up zipper bags, retort pouches, and cheese thermoforming films. It also supports 10-color premium printing for personal care, detergent, shampoo, and cosmetic packaging films, meeting the aesthetic and durability requirements of these products.
2. Personal Care Products: Enables high-capacity, continuous production for hygiene products including breathable diaper films and sanitary napkin packaging, where consistent printing quality and high-speed performance are essential.
3. Paper Product Printing: Used for large-volume pre-printing of paper cup/bowl base stock, high-speed printing of kraft paper bags and paper-plastic composite bags, and web-fed printing of thin cardstock and coated paper, catering to the diverse needs of paper product manufacturers.
4. Labeling: Supports large-scale production of pressure-sensitive labels for daily chemical, food, and pharmaceutical sectors, as well as continuous printing of shrink-sleeve labels, ensuring precise registration and clear print quality.
5. Pharmaceutical & Industrial Packaging: Delivers high-efficiency, wide-format production of medical packaging such as pharmaceutical composite films and blister foil composites, as well as agricultural/fertilizer packaging films, meeting strict regulatory standards for these sectors.
6. Corrugated Pre-Printing: Serves as an industry-leading solution for high-end pre-printing of corrugated box linerboard, enabling premium corrugated packaging with sharp, consistent prints.
7. Non-Woven & Specialty Materials: Facilitates high-speed printing on special substrates including eco-friendly non-woven shopping bags, medical-grade non-wovens, and aluminum foil paper, expanding the press's application scope beyond traditional packaging materials.
8. Premium Packaging: Suitable for manufacturing elite orders for tobacco and alcohol packaging, where registration accuracy and aesthetic quality are paramount to maintaining brand prestige.
9. Custom Wide-Format Production: Caters to specialized manufacturing needs for ultra-wide industrial packaging films, providing the flexibility to handle large-format printing tasks.

Industry Pain Points Solved

1. Slow speed and missed deadlines on legacy models: With an industry-leading design speed of 220 m/min and actual printing speeds up to 170 m/min, the TF-SS02-1000 1200 provides a massive capacity boost, allowing enterprises to handle urgent, large-scale orders with ease and meet tight delivery deadlines.
2. Poor production continuity due to stop-for-splicing: The dual-station fully automatic non-stop splicing system (capable of speeds ≥250m/min) enables 24-hour continuous, uninterrupted production, eliminating downtime caused by manual splicing and improving overall production efficiency.
3. Long changeover times and high startup material waste: The pre-registration feature allows the machine to achieve synchronized printing within seconds of startup, while the sleeve-type quick-change structure significantly reduces changeover time and minimizes material loss during job transitions.
4. Delayed detection of printing defects: Integrated German BST online video inspection systems monitor for defects such as missing prints or white spots in real-time, providing immediate warnings and allowing operators to make adjustments promptly, reducing defective products and material waste.
5. Ink splashing and labor-intensive cleaning: The closed-chamber doctor blades, fully enclosed ink paths, automatic ink chamber cleaning, and centralized waste ink recovery system drastically reduce ink splashing and simplify cleaning processes, improving the workshop environment and reducing labor costs.
6. Frequent anilox roller clogging and high maintenance costs: The innovative anti-clogging design ensures the anilox roller rotates automatically during machine stops, preventing ink from drying and clogging the mesh. This fundamentally eliminates the root cause of anilox clogging, reducing maintenance frequency and costs.
7. Incomplete drying and ink offsetting at high speeds: The combination of main drying ovens and multiple inter-color high-power hot air systems ensures that ink is thoroughly dried even during high-speed production, preventing ink offsetting and buildup, and ensuring consistent print quality.
8. Difficulty recalling parameters for repeat jobs: The centralized recipe storage and historical data logging function on the touchscreen allows operators to restore optimal production parameters with a single click, making job changes quick and stress-free, and reducing setup errors.
9. Slow after-sales response causing delivery delays: The press is equipped with remote diagnostic capabilities, enabling engineers to troubleshoot issues online and provide timely support. This significantly reduces downtime and ensures production resumes quickly, minimizing the impact on delivery schedules.
10. Lost orders due to fixed width or color limitations: The modular architecture of the TF-SS02-1000 1200 allows for on-demand expansion of web width and addition of color units, enabling a single machine to adapt to a wide variety of process scenarios and helping enterprises capture more order opportunities.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q1: What substrates can the TF-SS02-1000 1200 print on?
A: The press is compatible with a wide range of substrates including plastic films (PE, OPP, BOPP, CPP, PET, breathable films), various papers (kraft, coated, offset, thin cardstock), adhesive labels, aluminum foils, composite films, and non-woven fabrics.
Q2: What is the registration accuracy of this press?
A: The TF-SS02-1000 1200 offers an industry-leading ±0.05mm registration accuracy, driven by independent motors, precision ball screws, and real-time closed-loop feedback from photoelectric rotary encoders.
Q3: How does the press handle quick job changes?
A: The sleeve quick-change structure reduces changeover time by over 80% compared to traditional models, and the centralized control system allows for one-click recall of stored job parameters, making job transitions fast and efficient.
Q4: Can the press be customized to meet specific width requirements?
A: Yes, standard web widths of 1000–1200mm can be expanded to larger specifications such as 1400mm or 1600mm according to customer needs, providing flexible customization options.
Q5: What drying system does the press use to prevent ink offsetting?
A: It features a powerful two-stage electric drying system with main oven and inter-color drying configurations, delivering high-temperature, high-velocity airflow to ensure thorough ink drying during high-speed production, eliminating ink offsetting issues.