Automation of the plate production for small and medium-sized commercial printers
fully-automatic register punching and bending unit with mid-centring device

The NELA SF-bender 1100 combines reliable technology designed in Germany with easy serviceability due to the use of brand name parts from suppliers with international support. With its basic floor layout configurations it offers all benefits of modern automated plate line at an affordable price and NELA technology which can be trust.

In the NELA SF-Bender 1100 the offset plates are positioned automatically by register pins. Then the punching / bending is made. The processed printing plates are then safely loaded into a stacking station. An electronic monitoring system guarantees the register accuracy of the printing plates.

Highest Precision and Flexibility
fully-automatic register punching and bending device with Video Control Positioning

The fully automatic register punching and bending machine NELAVCPevolution realizes a maximum register accuracy by the systematic use of modern technologies and manufacturing processes. The flexibility allows the combination with a variety of modern and fast imaging equipment to an economical, high-precision printing plate processing line. The NELAVCPevolution can be flexibly integrated into any automation solution.

Variations of certain parameters in the plate production process often are the reason for inferior plate quality that may not be detected at first glance and, therefore, lead to interruptions in the production process. Delayed production and quality issues are major causes for declining profits.
NELA has developed the fully automatic plate quality monitoring system PQM+, which automatically analyses each and every imaged printing plate and immediately shows the result on the operator interface. Even from across the room one can see on the screen when a plate was out of tolerance.

Custom desgined press lock-ups

NELA Locks for rapid and effective conversion of your presses to new clamping systems. Web width reduction from 50" - 46" possible.

Many printers produce a lot of paper waste just because color register adjustment on the press cylinder is a difficult, manual process. NELA offers an automated solution for this process. Minuscule color dots printed on the web are used by our system to automatically calculate correction values and bring the corresponding cylinder(s) into their corrected location. NELA Register- and Cutoff Controll system with High-resolution digital cameras with integrated, state-of-the-art control logics capture the printed marks on each web and calculate the correction values.

NELA offers a multitude of products and solutions for pre-press automation, with our proven register punching and bending systems being part of a comprehensive system integration. From plate transport systems and sortation stackers to fully automatic plate elevators and transportation to the press – NELA’s product range includes everything that modern print facilities need for plate production. The vision of an almost unmanned operation becomes reality: NELA has realized the “handshake” between pre-press and press.

PageTracking:
The NELA PageTracking software was developed for fully automatic surveillance of the printing plate production. An imaged barcode is required on all plates.

StatusCenter:
NELA StatusCenter controls and visualizes all activities of the entire plate processing line. Status changes and error messages are immediately displayed on the user interface. System and process data can be viewed and stored.

FanOut Compensation:
The fully automatic FanOut and register compensation is needed to compensate mechanical tolerances on the press cylinders as well as correct the physical characteristics of different types of paper.

PlateFlow:
The NELA PlateFlow software was specifi cally designed for the NELA LogiStack plate management system and allows for fully automatic connection of the pre-press department with the press control system. Each print job can be surveyed and released in one single system.

PlateSorting:
With the PlateSorting software, printing plates can be automatically sorted according to color or press cylinder, for example, and stored in the NELA sortation stacker. A barcode containing the required sorting criteria must therefore be imaged on each plate.

PGate:
PGate makes sure that in multiple line-systems, each individual plate is transferred to the right punch and bend device. For example, all four plates of one color set can be conveyed to the same punch/bender. When different punching and bending configurations are used, PGate makes certain that each plate reaches the correct punch/bender. Plates are identifi ed via an imaged barcode.