Images Digital Edition DEC 2018

www.images-magazine.com DECEMBER 2018 images 77 PF PRE-PRESS AND PACKING Tel: 01582 573980 sales@exiletech.co.uk www.exiletech.co.uk Styler Styler FREE Computer to Screen THE DIGITAL SCREENROOM EXILE’s Digital Screen-room solutions automate the screen-making process by printing digital images directly onto coated screens with fully automatic digital registration. After imaging the screens are ready for immediate UV exposure on the VLUX or EXPOSE DTS exposure systems with no need for glass or vacuum. II V-LU X • Eliminate Film • Reduce Labour Costs • Digital Registration • Reduce Exposure Times • Faster Press Setup • Improved Image Quality & Image & Expose 50+ Screens per hour! From only £7,995.00 producing 50, maybe 100 screens a day, they all add up. What are their main advantages? The Spyder automatically locks in with our MHM screen presses. It makes it all uniform – we literally lock the screen into the Spyder, we process the screens, we dry them, we get them ready, we coat them and all the way along they just fit in place. You want true registration and you get that consistently. The days of watching a printer stand there with a piece of film, trying to set a 10-colour machine up, are gone. The chances of him putting those 10 pieces of film in exactly the same place by eye are near impossible. If we get the full set-up ready and right for the guys on the shop floor, at the end of the day that makes us more productive and more efficient. That‘s what the Spyder and the V-Lux give us. if you‘re setting up a 10-colour job manually, it could take somebody, let‘s say, 30 to 35 minutes to set 10 screens up. We can do that same process quite comfortably in no more than 15 minutes. Is there anything you‘d like to see in an upgrade or don‘t like about the equipment? We‘re very, very content with the set-up and the way things work at this moment in time. I think the only downside would probably be how long it can take the Spyder to warm up – we have it set on an auto-timer so it comes on an hour before the production staff are due in. The V-Lux is just so efficient though. Literally, you turn on a switch and you‘re ready to go. I think they‘ve got it spot on, in my opinion. Are they both quite easy to use? Very. With the V-Lux you choose your setting, press a button then 10, 20 seconds later you have a screen that‘s exposed and ready to be washed out. It‘s plug in and play. We have only one person in our screen room and he does it all very efficiently. What would be your advice to others thinking of a CTS machine or exposure unit? My advice would be the benefits and efficiencies far outweigh any negatives that somebody might have about the expense. It allows you to leave one person to control the screen room quite comfortably and gives you the opportunity to be able to really push on and be ahead of the game. From our perspective, the equipment really pays for itself in efficiency. www.benchmarkpe.co.uk