▲ The SC6000 is capable of kiss-cutting and profiling materials up to 320 microns in thickness Intec has a wide range of sheet-fed and flatbed digital cutting equipment, and the company has come back to present a new version of the combination digital cutting machines, the SC6000. The earlier model, the SC5000 was a well-received product that has gained plaudits over time for being a novel combination of flatbed and sheet-fed processes. The SC6000 has been redesigned with a new sharp overall look with a better working height than the SC5000 at 1,240mm high in total. The digital cutting equipment is capable of kiss-cutting and profiling materials up to 320 microns in thickness at nearly one metre per second (960mm/ min). The machine is designed to fit into a busy factory with a footprint no more than a desk but a work rate of many. The SC6000 is designed to be left unattended running quietly but reliably with a feeder table able to feed card, vinyl, and even laminated sheets which are difficult to run. The feeder can hold up to 900 sheets of material and to ensure it can be left running on its own, Intec has designed a very reliable feed mechanism. The feeder automatically rises and falls depending on the substrate within it and as the sheet separates, there is an automatic air stream that blows into the stack separating each sheet from the other. At the front of the stack, there is an air blade that fires a powerful jet of air into the front of the stack at the point when the automatic vacuum table drops to collect the sheet. To finally ensure reliable single sheet collection, there are a series of fingers that dislodge any sheet not intended to be lifted. All in all, Intec has considered a series of points on the most troublesome aspect of printing or post-press production – substrate feeding – meaning the SC6000 can be safely left alone. At the heart of the machine is a cutting engine that can hold four cutting blades in a dual tool head. A 30° 1mm blade is intended to be used for thin and very soft material, a 45° 1mm blade for thin card up to 0.35mm, a 60° 1mm blade for thick vinyl, and finally a 1.5mm blade with a 45° angle which is intended to be used on thicker card-based products up to 0.35mm. The 1mm blades are made of cemented Tungsten Carbide which is one of the sharpest cutting materials used with the 1.5mm blades made of industrial highspeed steel. Cutting with force The knives themselves will be of little use unless they can be applied and driven both accurately and effectively. The SC6000 cutting engine places a force of up to 750g to each knife when needed for both cutting and creasing applications. What is most important is how the blades are driven and this as with a number of other Intec products is completed by the Intec ColorCut Pro software. The ColorCut Pro software in the SC6000 automatically applies greater or lesser pressure whenever and wherever it is needed to produce the final first-class product. Whilst the blades are driven accurately around the vector path to scope out the shape needed, underneath the substrate is the patented technology consisting of the revolutionary cutting strip, technology Standard media sizes: A4, A3. SRA3 & A3+ Media thickness: 0.14mm/0.35mm Feeder capacity: 85mm (900 sheets at 80gsm) or 15kg Size (W x D x H): 820mm x 880mm x 1240mm Weight: 115kg Statistics 28 Intec has produced a new digital sheet cutting machine to fit into its range of digital cutting equipment. Brian Sims finds out what there is to know about this new kit, from its dual tool head to small footprint email: news@printmonthly.co.uk March / April 2023 - Issue 341 UNDER THE HOOD / INTEC SC6000 SHARP IN LOOKS AND OPERATION ◄ At the heart of the machine is a cutting engine that can hold four cutting blades in a dual tool head
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