20 challenges you are facing
20 reasons to choose Aniflo
MARGINS
Decrease the total cost of ownership of your equipment
Obviously, the more you decrease your production costs, the more margin you have!
In a competitive market, you have to :
- reduce the set up costs for each job (reduce waste and set up time to the minimum, reduce tooling costs)?
- increase printing speed?
- get the longest lifetime of your equipment?
- maximize the production output you can achieve with one machine?
- decrease working hours costs?
Guess what? Aniflo technology is the answer to all this points!
With 3$ per plate, and maximum 6 colours per job needed, with just few minutes to change job, with up to 85 m/min in production, with lowest cost of consumables (inks, substrates), Aniflo is the most cost efficient solution on the narrow web market between 300 m and up to more than 10 000m run length!
Let’s do some maths
You have to print medium run job, let’s say 150 000 labels and 6000 m long. With the VIVA Aniflo, the total production cost is 6% below compared to flexo, and the total production time*, is 20% less compared to wet offset.
*total production time including set up, total production cost including pre press, amortization of the machine, waste, working hours, consumables.
65 € less compared to flexo. Small money ?
If you print this kind of job all year long, on a two shifts basis (16h per day) and 240 days per year, you are saving 125 000€ per year compared to flexo!
And if you are printing shorter run, the savings can be even higher!
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Color MATCHING
Reach the exact result your customers demand!
Proof = press is no longer a dream, but an easily achieved goal!
Before going on press, you know what the result will be. Thanks to the Anilox inking system, you deliver an exact quantity of ink, along and across the web.
And no need to change the anilox if you want to adjust the density, simply change the temperature to change the viscosity of the ink. In few seconds you’ll see the result, without wasting more than few printing formats! And no need to adjust ink/water balance, it is waterless offset!
Let’s see how life is without Aniflo
With a flexo press, in order to achieve the right color, you may have to change the anilox, depending on design and application, pre-press… then adjust pressure for good result
With a wet offset, it is sometimes even more complicated, by setting up ink keys, ink water balance… You are wasting time and money just to get the color your customers expect !
With Aniflo you get the exact color you want !
Whatever is the way you are printing, either in direct pantones or in Expanded gamut printing (see our article mixing the inks or mixing the dots?) you know, before going on press what would be the result!
And if you need to adjust ink density, simply adjust temperature in the anilox. You adjust then the viscosity of the ink, thus adjusting the result, without changing anilox, nor wasting time or material!
No ghosting, no inertia, no rubber rollers, no ink key settings… that’s the magic part of Aniflo ! Discover more in this short video below.
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Special requests
Configure your press to make it unique
- You already have important markets and you are always using the same process for embellishments?
- You have uneasy special jobs and you need to develop new techniques for your client’s requests?
Contact us to create the dedicated machine for you!
We can configure the exact machine for you, adapted to your markets
Wine & beverage, food, health & beauty, pharmaceutical, industrial, security…
We offer you the unique opportunity to get your tailor-made press, with the finishing units you want:
- Hot foil stamping unit: very competitive with our foil unit, by using cheap magnesium dies instead of engraved cylinders and foil saving system reducing foil consumption up to 90%?
- Flat bed foiling and embossing: the multi stroke capacity allows you to print in one pass multifoil, while reducing the cost of tooling
- Screen printing unit: only one size of screen for all repeats!
- Varnish / Lamination / cold foil unit / Die cut: magnetic cylinders for dies or flexo plates are so easy to set up!
- Slitting, stripping, Inspection: Get a finished label in one pass!
Discover how to convert the most beautiful labels in one pass thanks to Codimag machines!
You can even choose the color of your press… like this beautiful pink machine, matching the color of the logo for the lucky and proud owner!
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Technology
Invest in an open and state-of-the-art equipment
How does it work?
It seems quite simple right? Only 4 cylinders for maximum performances. Now let’s have a look in further technical details and try to describe it more precisely.
Fewer settings to adjust to save time and money!
This concentrated Aniflo technology has been designed to reduce set up time and waste, by avoiding all variables.
- Anilox is giving a consistent ink along and across the web
- 4 cylinders with same diameter instead of rubber rollers and longer ink path to avoid inertia
- Waterless offset to avoid ink/water balance
- A patented temperature control regulation system to get the same density from set-up to production speed
Open and state of the art technology
Proudly designed and manufactured in France !
This technology is simple for converters, but requires a lot of R&D, and state of the art equipment. That’s why we have been working closely with our trustworthy partners to create this top-class equipment, such as water regulation control, UV drying system or motion and electronic equipment.
Our latest generation of press includes OPC-UA standard to be ready to be implemented in a 4.0 industry factory where all machines are connected with the same communication protocol!
Take back control of your equipment!
Use the press the way you want, with the consumables you want! Decide what are the consumables you prefer, and integrate your press in an open and complete digital workflow.
The printing process is only one part of your production process. You deserve to work with the partners of your choice on press for plates, inks…. And many more partners for all the workflow before and after the press!
Our technology is open, so you are not stuck with the supplier that blocks you, such as digital press manufacturers who force you to buy their own inks, consumables and service.
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Short run
Digital printing is not the only answer
More and more brands are asking for short run jobs ?
We will show you how to restore margin in this challenging market trend.
Trends to shorter run are so many!
- Increasing number of SKU
- Decrease in the stock volume for end users
- Special series or seasonal products
- Just in time production workflow
- New end user customers with small volumes (and you want to help them grow!)
- Short run is no longer a trend, it is a reality to deal with!
How to face properly this challenge ?
- Margins are decreasing while volumes are reduced per job
- Fixed cost per job have to be controlled
- Repeatability is key for jobs that will be printed regularly
- Technology should be chosen depending on run length
Aniflo boosts your efficiency on short run, because it offers an opportunity to face the multiple jobs to print.
- Integrate your equipment in a complete digital & automated workflow from pre press to the press! Dealing with many files is not an issue in your workflow!
- Reduce the cost of toolings, especially plate costs thanks to offset plates.
- Reduce set up time & waste thanks to efficient inking unit, stability, predictability, repeatability! only few minutes to print the job at production speed!
Aniflo is the most cost-efficient solution on the narrow web market between 300 m and up to more than 10 000m run length… …but let’s focus on the short run!
Let’s do some maths! You have to print a 800 m long job, for 20 000 labels. What would be the total cost of production, and what would be the total production time on various technologies?
Aniflo is the most competitive solution for short and medium run
I already hear you asking me : “Hey, these are your figures, how can you proove it?“
Yes we can proove it, and we will immediately : Here are some figures from our customers !
And do you know the run length of the jobs printed by our customers with our latest Viva machines ?
More than 50% of the jobs below 1000m on viva 340, and 33% below 500m.
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Versatility
Print on any substrates!
You are printing on a wide variety of paper and plastic? You intend to expand your business on new markets such as laminated tubes, unsupported films, Heat-sealed bags, in mold labels or shrink sleeves? You have exotic requests from your customer to print special jobs on cork, tin or wood?
Aniflo technology opens new horizons!
Versatility is key to ensure growth for your business and reactivity for your customers.
Because you don’t want to change from one machine to another depending on the job! because it eases your production workflow, and make you more reactive for your customer…
Furthermore, you want to avoid pre treated material, to lower your purchasing prices of substrate, which is quite important in your yearly spending right ? Of course, you also wish that you won’t reduce the quality of printing, even on cheapest material…
Aniflo is the right solution for you, and here is why !
There are 2 things important to keep in mind to explain the versatility of Aniflo :
- it is offset,
- it is waterless offset !
Redundant ? not completely… let me explain.
Because of Offset, you are ensuring the quality of the inking process as you are using a blanket.
The ink transfer is easier, especially on uncoated substrates ! That is why Offset is appreciated in some demanding markets such as (but not only limited to) cosmetic or wine and beverage.
You can also enjoy printing with the superior quality of Offset (300 LPI, 5080 DPI), while being very efficient on short run (or longer one) thanks to cheap plate costs and low make ready time and waste.
And getting efficient when substrate is one your most important direct costs is an imperative, that leads us to the second point…
Because waterless offset printing technology is the reference for many applications
- Newspaper & Semi-commercials: High speed web offset printing without ink zones, Absolute minimum waste in a very competitive market, Highest productivity with an ultra low set-up time and high speed printing, Superb printing quality even on low quality substrates
- Security printing: The most demanding market for highest printing quality in terms of resolution (reproduction of finest security features). Expensive substrate and zero default quality.
- Plastic cards: Expensive substrates, and Ability to print on thick non-absorbent material
- Lenticular printing: Production of extravagant products with 3D effects, High resolution printing on special micro lens foils, Low waste on expensive substrate
- Tube printing: High definition printing on convex tubes, Ability to print on very thick packaging materials, Low waste on expensive plastic tubes
- Optical Disk Production: High speed printing directly on storage media, extremely low waste, on very expensive substrates
So many complicated substrates printed efficiently thanks to waterless offset technology… So you understand better how you can be productive and efficient in label and packaging printing, thanks to Aniflo versatility !
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Operator skills
Ease your process with a machine easy to use!
At Codimag, we have always thought differently from our competitors. Instead of automating the machine and all the complex adjustments in the printing process, we have decided to suppress all the complexity at the very root of the technology.
And this is how we have created Aniflo!
The simplicity of the design creates the simplicity of the process.
Thus, that ease the complete process and then help your operators.
No need to be an “offset printer” to use Aniflo, because we have suppressed the variables that are creating the complexity of conventional offset process:
- No ink water balance
- No ink key settings
- No ghosting
- No inertia
And no need to be an “flexo printer” to use Aniflo, because all the instabilities associated to flexo have been removed!
- No pressure adjustments
- No sticky back plates
- No cylinders to change
We are keeping the best of all technologies, and removing the pain points you have been facing for too long!
Choose a technology easy to handle so training is shorter and ramp up is quicker
Retain your operators with a press they will love because they can easily produce wonderful results
Give purpose to your staff, by giving them the perfect tool to do what they are: printers!
Still not convinced? Have a look at this customer testimonial. All the staff is delighted by this easy process !
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