Provin Technos, the Delhi-headquartered distributor of printing presses and other equipment, has announced the addition of the Spande product line manufactured by Shanghai Spande Intelligent Equipment to its offerings. An agreement to this regard was reached just before drupa 2024, Provin said.
Established in 2010, Spande focuses on intelligent printing and packaging equipment, integrated research and development, design, production, manufacturing, sales and services. It also provides intelligent printing solutions for the label and POD printing industries.
Four R&D teams work on digital inkjet product development and manufacturing, industrial equipment manufacturing and research, intelligent factory system development, and visual inspection; Spande has 15 invention patents, 50 utility model patents, 30 appearance design patents, and 100 software copyrights to its name. Spande is the exclusive strategic partner of Siemens in the Chinese domestic printing industry, and has also obtained German TüV certification, and ISO9001 certification.
Flexo presses
Spande offers a range of flexo and inkjet digital presses – the AC Series, S-7 Series and S-5 Series are its flexo printing machines. The AC Series consists of 700 and 800 mm web width flexo print and converting lines with substrate handling capacities from 12 to 800 microns with speed range up to 250 meters a minute. It uses sleeve technology for faster change overs and multiple options for its interchangeable units.
The S-7 Series are fully automated flexo presses with web widths of 370/450/520 mm and substrate handling capacities of 12 to 450 microns with speeds ranging to 200 minute a minute. These are equipped with auto register and auto impression setting – achieved by eight servo controls and two Intelligent vision systems installed on each unit, enabling start up without manual setting.
The S-5 series is an automated flexo press with web widths of 370 and 450 mm and a substrate handling capacity from 12 to 300 microns with speeds ranging up to 200 meters a minute.
Web-fed water-based inkjet presses
Spande’s inkjet press has web widths of 660 and 440 mm and substrate handling capacities from 50 to 250 gsm with resolutions of 1200 x 1200 dpi and speeds ranging to 100 meters a minute at 1200 x 600 dpi. The press is built for the printing of of 10 to 15 million pages monthly.
The Spande digital press uses high-density, high saturation, colorful, and durable water-based environment-friendly inks. A combination of professional printing head positioning technology with Spande’s nozzle splicing technology achieves seamless printing between nozzles, to enhance print quality.
Using Epson’s i3200(8)-A1HD nozzles, coupled with various ink adding systems, and online maintenance modes including online nozzle maintenance, enables the press to achieve high reliability, stable operation and consistent high print quality. Spande claims it is one of the best ink-jet presses in this segment in terms of achievable quality, reliability and commercial viability.
“Shanghai Spande Intelligent Equipment is a technologically solid company, manufacturing high-end flexo and digital inkjet presses. Provin will launch these very sophisticated and productive presses in India. We are sure we will disrupt the Indian market with these products,” Provin director Vinay Kaushal said.
