Flexographic Printing Press Setup: Uteco Coral 675

[@jbsmarklinmodellbahn1728]

Much work for the print operator on this kind of machines. I work since 1989 with flexo printing and know how hard it was. Today it is much easier with modern machines.

[@markturton76]

Back to basics bro, way more fun, and more money working for a smaller business (well definitely in my case anyway).

[@TheMrboombostic]

I miss the days of working of geared presses. Seeing you set the print and gaping the print sleeve and anilox brought back memories of when operating our presses and how you had to be on your game on those machines. I can tell you’re a fantastic operator. I’ve always said that if you can operate a printing press, you can do anything else in the world.

[@markturton76]

Thanks Corey, it’s definitely a back to basics printing press, a lot of fun to run! For 1999 made uteco it’s in great condition. . . I miss gearless, you miss geared, love it 🤣

[@brewmaster0507]

They tore out 2 of them and junked them where I work. Too bad because they still ran.

[@markturton76]

@@brewmaster0507 very sad, lots of spear parts for other companies in the bin 😢

[@brewmaster0507]

​@@markturton76I absolutely agree. Press still ran good.

[@brownysshitfightofamind1828]

When we were just starting (2000) with an old PCMC 6 colour made in 1982. Oil would visibly leak out of the thing so bad. I started there as an offsider and learned to print on that and didn’t know any better. It was great to learn on though only because it makes you appreciate the advancements we have now.

[@brewmaster0507]

I ran a twin of that press for years. It was a W and H,but nearly identical. So glad to be on a sleeved gearless Press now.

[@iankearns774]

Place I worked at had a W & H Astra and one of these Utecos, it aws identical to this so this brought bcak memories. Back in about 2004-06 I worked as the ink maker for three shifts but as I was an offset printer they were training me up to help out. I was sick of running presses so started colour matching for Flint Ink and then I found myself as an assistant more often than not when the assistant didn't show up. I dont miss that stuff at all.

[@markturton76]

@@iankearns774love your story Ian, brings back memories of big business with people having sick days and filling in different departments. I haven’t heard Flint Inks name in years, I always loved running their inks 👍🏻

[@brewmaster0507]

​@iankearns774 we used flint for awhile. Seigwerk now.

[@brownysshitfightofamind1828]

I honestly don’t miss the geared cylinder presses. Now it’s all sleeves, servos and touchscreens. My 50 y/o wrists and back are quite happy with innovation thank you very much👍 Although I like the new technology, they don’t have that “hands on touchy” feel when setting the a job though and more tech means more tech issues.

[@brewmaster0507]

Agreed. I run a 10 color bobst. Leaks ink but prints nice.

[@brownysshitfightofamind1828]

@@brewmaster0507 we were looking at Bobst since we decommissioned the old Uteco 8 colour. Decided to go with getting a W&H Novoflex due in February. Looks fancy. We also have an aging PCMC Avanti 8 colour and a Comexi 8 colour. Yes the Comexi is leaky too mainly from the chamber seals no matter what we’ve tried to fix the issues. Lucky I seldom run that press hehe.

[@HolmesCory]

After almost a year of watching and rewatching this video, I just noticed at 7:51. Happy Father's Day, dude 🙂👍

[@Ollieshipton]

Looks clean and well maintained for the age

[@markturton76]

Thanks Ollie, the press was a mess when we first got it, but over the last 9yrs I’ve got it looking and running pretty good 😃

[@HolmesCory]

@@markturton76 A clean press is the first sign of a diseased mind 😂

[@brownysshitfightofamind1828]

I do NOT miss our old Uteco Amber 808 we bought in 2001. I learned my trade on that thing and over the 20 years we got out of her the gears were all worn and process work near on impossible to keep in rego. It was a love/hate relationship until we sent her off and got a W&H Novoflex. We also have a PCMC Avanti 8 colour and a Comexi 8 colour. The PCMC is on it’s last legs as it’s about 22 years old now and just quits and jams up when it feels like it😂

[@markturton76]

Each to their own bro. This Uteco is in awesome condition and I know the mechanicals and Electrical inside and out. Back to basics printing I like. I’ve run servo driven gearless presses and Don’t Joy.

[@JoshArcadeX]

Got Nearly the same press in the shop i work in. We are about to get rid of it, but loved workin on it. just something about doing everything manually.

[@Pilek01]

i must say that im in shock that people still use machines like that, but if they still make profit then that's very cool. Looking at your video is like nostalgia but personally Im glad that my last time i worked on a machine with gears was 12 years ago. I have the luck to be working on a new press every 2 years and currently working on a 6 months old Soma Optima II. But im happy that i saw your video, brought many memories from back in the days :D :D

[@markturton76]

I’m glad you enjoyed. 80% of presses are of this age and older around the world bro. They make more money than new presses because you aren’t paying millions of dollars. At a million dollars a colour for a new good quality press, that’s a lot of printing to break even. We run short 5000-50,00mts jobs (1 to 6 colours). New presses can’t do these jobs and make money. There is still a need for the old printing presses, and always will be. Plus they are way more fun the set up and run. Enjoy the new stuff tho 🤙🏼

[@Pilek01]

@@markturton76 Hi Mark. Sorry if i might have sounded rude or something. English is my 4th language so sometimes something that i mean comes across not like i intended :D But seriously i am shocked that those old machines are still in use. I am from poor Poland and 12 years ago when i started as a flexo printer i used to work on 3 old Windmöller & Hölscher machines made in the 80s and a even older Comexi press. We had also a Fischer & Krecke from the 90s and a W&H Soloflex made in 2000. All those machines were with gears. 3 were 6 color and 3 were 8 color machines. After 1 year working there our boss got a brand new 10 color gearless W&H Miraflex for around 2 million USD. From that point we started to get rid of the old machines and got every two years a new Press. One year we even got 3 new presses cuz the new machines made so much money. Now we have 6 Windmöller & Hölscher Miraflex (one is 8 color the rest is 10 color) And 2x Soma Optima (8 color). This is why im shocked because if poor Poland expands with new machines then rich USA or UK should have even better machines (that is my logic of thinking). I have to disagree with your statement that new presses cant make money with short runs. We specialize in short runs. Starting with 100 kg jobs (even 10 color sometimes). Those new presses (especially soma optima) are made for short jobs. changing 8 sleeves takes 5 minutes and the machine does a automatic wash up so you can put a new color inside in no time. we do 1800 tones of paper and 900 jobs a month. Look up on youtube "New OPTIMA at K SHOW - drinking coffee during changeover!" i work on this press and i go to work with a smile on my face. Its so much fun to work on the new machines.

[@HolmesCory]

@@markturton76 With such short runs like that (5000 - 50,000m isn't a lot of film) how much time do you get for your set-ups? Have you developed any tricks to getting set up faster? Does your company give hard, set targets to be hit?

[@manishgowda3999]

@@markturton76 hello sir my name Manish. There is any vacancies in flexo printing.

[@manishgowda3999]

@@markturton76 this same machine I operate 4 years sharjah UAE

[@ailtongomescardoso9149]

Trabalhei em muitas impressoras, mas essas Uteco 675 RR possuiam soluções muito inovadoras, a única ressalva que tenho é a tinta caindo na banheira, dificultando a limpeza e consequente troca para outra cor, coisa que hj em dia não existe impressoras mais modernas.

[@naraynkar]

Nice work, I work on 6 color stack flexo 1200mm feed and Gidue M2 10 color label flexo , but my stack type flexo is without doctor blade chamber

[@andresdastolfo2695]

Hello Mark...its a beautiful machine and it seem you are very dedicated worker. Im from Argentina working with a flexographic Printing machine builded in 1970. It only have 350mm of width printable LOL. All the process that i have to do for get a work, i do manually. In 2021 i feel im a worker in the seventies jajaj. I would like to share with you a video. Thanks for share it!!

[@markturton76]

Put up a video, I’d love to see it… I also run a W&H Built in 1969, I’ll have a video up soon 👍🏼

[@shahjadali7576]

Nice👌👌👌

[@sonajijambhulkar2345]

Good job👍👍👍

[@markturton76]

Thanks Sonaji, I’m glad you liked it 👍🏼

[@flexoprinting-jasonpan9454]

Mark, nice job👍

[@markturton76]

Thank you Jason 👍🏼

[@CRN8091]

Cool video, starting a new career in flexo next week after 24 years as a heat-set web offset printer.Might have to ask you for some tips 😂

[@scabbyrod566]

Good luck at the new career! I run one of the newer models, the ONYX. Much simpler setup than this, but all the same concepts.

[@felixflix3851]

i love running a gear press.

[@ElectricSoundwave]

Flexographic printer here. Your press looks pretty wild/awesome to me. I run a 13/16” press. I’ve ran Neilpeters, aquaflexes, and roto’s. They are I in-line presses. Same process though. The neilpeter and rotos we just used pans and ran with a meter roller and doctor blade. The aquaflexes we use closed heads. But only 16” max. Your heads are giant! Haha. Printing is a trip. Cheers and print on.

[@ElectricSoundwave]

Also just saw your turn bar video. I’ve used those on the roto’s and neilpeters. The aquaflexes I can reverse the gear box and web it to where it goes basically inwards on the impression roller instead of outwards. Again, printing is a real trip.

[@jonathanrivas-rodriguez6341]

What tape was used on the plate?

[@markturton76]

Hi Jonathan, we use Lohmann Tape (DuploFLEX 5.4 Grip and 5.4 EBX)… We use the hard tape because we mainly print solid and line work. This tape will do screen work up to 70Line Screen. I hope this helps 👍🏻

[@kim__jong__un]

Old school. OK for simple jobs. I worked on a similar machine. For jobs with process color CMYK with precise register, the printing form (cliche) must be mounted with the camera. These are probably solvent-based printing ink (alcohol) and all werks (printing units) are open, surely the ink evaporate and you can smell it in the air. You did not set the stops on the ends of the raster roller. The paint will spray on the air cylinder and the central cylinder.

[@markturton76]

We have process aniloxes where you can print up to 75DPC which gives an average process print, but most of our work here is simple 3-6 colour line and solid work… We do the stuff the bigger companies don’t want to do. Yes it’s old school blade technology using solvent based inks, but it works, with super fast washups and job change times. The smell isn’t to bad, but our factory has massive doors both ends to.

[@Bmw2473]

Cool press but why run a narrow web job on a wide web press? Seems like allot of setup or at least run the job 3 across to shorten the run and be more profitable?

[@markturton76]

Hi Jason, the job running here on my setup video is a end seal lay flat tube bag job. The film needs to be super strong on the sides due to the pressure of the bubble wrap put inside the bag. That’s why we do this job as a end seal bag (low pressure on the bottom seal). Our bag machines here also don’t have hot knives to slit and seal 2 or 3 prints across. I hope this makes sense and I’ve explained myself well. Have a look at my slitting video where we do print two across and slit (it’s at the end of the short video). My press won’t slit three across due to rewind issues. I’ll do a video on our bag machines and extruders sometime soon to 👍🏼

[@rufinohernandez4984]

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[@TalonLai]

how about bundling machine inline FFG

[@sunilprajapati9189]

Hi, very nice machine and good job 👍👍👍 Can you please let me know the price of same used machine?

[@markturton76]

We brought this machine for $150,000 Australian dollars and the printing press was around 11 years old. New it was around $1,000,000 AU It was built in 1999. I hope this helps 😃

[@Royul1crazy]

How hard is this job? Scale of 1 to 10 with me having no experience?

[@markturton76]

That’s a difficult question to answer. The more colours running the harder it gets, and with colours over printing each. Hot humid weather is hard. Process printing is harder than line work. Different printing press, some are a lot easier than others. So it can range from 1 all the way to 10, and with no experience easy jobs are probably doable but hard jobs will be almost impossible. I hope that helps 👍🏻

[@brewmaster0507]

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[@felipepartida8994]

Hola amigo... Me interesa una maquina de la que estas montando donde puedo tener informacion de esas

[@markturton76]

Email Uteco in Italy 🇮🇹

[@naimurcomilla8707]

I am a printing assistant operator . The company I work for has same a machine. But it is not used for five years.

[@markturton76]

Hi Naimur, they are a good press (electronically not so good), but nice to run… make sure everything is well oiled and turns freely before any major run speed with it sitting for 5yrs. Enjoy 😉

[@HolmesCory]

What's the web width on this machine? I've never worked with chambered doctor blades before, does the ink always recirculate like at the start? Either way, I envy your press!

[@markturton76]

The web width is 1250mm and is printable to 1200mm printing one side and up to 6 colours. It can also print two sides in register with a maximum web width of 500mm using the turner-bar, and up to 6 colours again. The ink recirculates all the time to feed the chamber and keep a constant viscosity. It’s a nice press to run for its age 👍🏼

[@HolmesCory]

@@markturton76 That's awesome :) Both my boss and I are self-taught printers, so I try to educate myself by watching KZbin videos for tips and tricks. I'd love to see you put out more videos like this one, it's awesome and engaging!

[@markturton76]

Anytime Cory, if you need advice or a hand, I’m happy to help. Just send me a email : [e-mail] ... just add PRINTING in the subject line 👍🏼 And I’m making a new video at the moment, it’s a reverse printing video, it should be up on KZbin today 😃

[@fddifuh]

the time it takes to set up a 1 colour, i could have a 10 colour job in and running on a newer f&k lmao

[@markturton76]

This was a 4 colour, setup in under 1.5hrs … and don’t worry, the boss makes plenty on money as do I being the production planner, ink tech, printer…Totally different business model to your big business. The boss owns the press outright unlike the $5-15million owning on lease in big business on a new 10 colour. I’ve worked big business for 15years. Won’t do it again. More money, less stress, appreciated, and massive bonuses. You do you, I’ll do me 👍🏻

[@QuickFlixDailyyy]

@@markturton76sounds like you’re trying to convince yourself more than anybody but cool cool.

[@katherinedavila919]

buen entrenamiento

[@emon00khan32]

Nc

[@flexotv9682]

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[@SuSmallville]

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