27 www.printmonthly.co.uk May / June 2023 - Issue 342 UNDER THE HOOD / VIVID VELOTAPER ▲ The VeloTaper is able to lay doublesided tape in both X and Y direction in one pass There are a number of tasks that can fill post-press operatives with dread, one of these can be the application of double-sided tape or adhesives to the finished product. Hours have been spent in most occasions producing the most elaborate printed, varnished, cut and creased product, only to be scrapped when the tape to hold the product together gets applied 5mm to the wrong side of the crease line. Quite often the phrase “you only had one job” can be heard being shouted across the finishing room when the error is found in the final assembly of the product. Things are likely to get quite tense, the product is not reclaimable, and the client is on the phone. It might seem like a simple enough task, however from experience it is anything but. It can be quite easy to misinterpret the score line on the 50th carton of the day. Don’t realise your mistake and you have the next 20 cartons with the tape in the wrong place. Well, the innovative people at Vivid Laminating Technologies have come to the rescue with an award-winning piece of revolutionary technology called the VeloTaper. It is such an interesting piece of equipment that it recently won the Pinnacle InterTech Award for Best Technology in 2022 which is no mean feat and Vivid is quite understandably very proud of the award. The PRINTING United Alliance set up these awards to cover a number of sectors and the Pinnacle Awards are the industry’s largest, and one of the most respected awards for print-related technology and products. The Pinnacle InterTech Awards acknowledge innovative, industry-changing technology and the Pinnacle Product Awards recognise product excellence and quality. For a smaller piece of equipment, the receipt of this award must mean there is something about it that is drawing industry experts and users to recognise Vivid as a winner in the VeloTaper. Putting the Tape Down So what actually is the VeloTaper? Having discussed trials and tribulations of the application of adhesive tape on a product, clearly the device is designed to do just that, and it does so, both very effectively and efficiently. The design of the VeloTaper is such that is intended to fit directly onto one of the VeloBlade Volta+ models of cutting and creasing machines. The intention is that it automates the application of the required adhesive but it can do it directly from the ZipCore software meaning the likelihood of it being in the wrong place is virtually zero. The second upside of it being integrated Vivid has hit the target with the VeloTaper, an award-winning piece of technology that increases the efficiency of placing adhesive tape on packaging and stationary. Brian Sims finds out more... As the machine moves to the next position, it keeps the tape with the prerequisite tensions meaning the adhesive is laid down as thin as practically possible NO ROOM FOR ERROR Tape width: Up to 22mm Software integration: Zip Core Tape direction: X and Y axis Statistics
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