Punching positioned to printed elements on the sheet

Some customer of us has asked, that how could they punch with the Paperfox paper punches so that the hole should be positioned to the printed elements on the sheet. The printed elements maybe not always in the same place on the sheets, so the positioning the edge of the sheets to the paper guides not a proper solution.

You can use the Paperfox MP-1 press with an MPA-1 table. (The MP-2 paper punch with an MPA-2 table or a KB-32 paper punch with an MA-500 table also can be used in similar way.)

Stick a transparent foil on a 3mm thick plastic plate. (You can use a VLPOM cutting plate. )

Use an adhesive band and stick the foil at a side on the plastic plate.

The plastic foil can be folded up, but if you fold it back it will always get back in the same position.

Place the plastic plate under the MP-1 press equipped with a MPA-1 table and position it to the paper guides as in the picture.

Punch the foil with the Paperfox MP-1 paper punch.

Now the plastic plate and the punched transparent foil looks like in the following picture:

Insert the sheet which you want to punch under the transparent foil and position the printed elements on the sheet under the punching in the transparent foil.

Place the plastic plate with the transparent foil and the paper which you want to punch under the MP-1 paper punch. Position the plastic plate to the paper guides.

Punch the paper! In this way you can punch the sheet in the required place.

Case maker

We have manufactured a very simple case maker device.

You can create hard covers with this simple device. The positioning of the covering paper is helped by an electric light. 

A few years ago we have constructed a similar device which used vacuum for keeping the covering paper in the same position.

Rewinder equipped with "chicken ladder"

We equipped our A-1000 rewinder with a "chicken ladder" like device. Well, actually we don't want chickens to climb on our machines, but we wanted to secure the accurate position during rewinding with this device.

And this is not everything! We equipped with our new "chicken ladder" with a "cutting unit.

If you want to use several cutting unit on our A-1000 rewinder you need a stronger motor and transmission to produce the increased rewinding force.

Corner guide for Paperfox KB-32 press.

The maximum corner radius which you can make with the usual corner rounders is 10..12mm.
With the Paperfox MP-1 press you can make even 30mm corner radius.

But what if you need bigger rounding?
We have manufactured a spacial corner guide for Paperfox KB-32 multifunction press, which makes it possible!

Do you need more? The is a corner guide prototype with you can make bigger rounding or you can cut special shapes into the corner of paper sheets.

With this machine you can make for example the printed covering paper of boxes.

A positioning solution in the Paperfoxdie cutters

Some customer of us asked, that how could they position the sheets in the Paperfox cylinder die cutters, if the cutting should be positioned to the positioning marks or to the graphic printed on the sheet.

You should mount a plexy plate with a scharnier to the die cutting tool. Mark the place of the cutting edges on the plexyglas. (You can do it withslightly pressing the plexy to the tool in your die cutting machine as well)

Place the shhet you want to cut on the tool and fold the plexyglas sheet on and position the sheet in the required position.

 

Fold off the plexy from the tool and place a cutting plate on it.

After this you can use your Paperfox cylinder die cutter in the usual way.

How to make a box?

When we have offered our rotation creasing machines for making boxes, some customer of us has asked that how can they make boxes with our machines.
I am not a packaging expert, but I try to collect some solution for making boxes.

The simpliest box you can make is the following:

Cut an A x B sized peace from a cardboard or from corrugated paper and crease it in distance "E" from the sides. Creasing is a line made by pressing the paper, cardboard or corrugated paper before folding. You can make this creasing even with a not sharp knife beside a ruler, or you can use creasing machines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP4orEun6Xo
http://www.paperfox.eu/creasing_perforating.html
If you use the same sized card for the top and bottom part of the box, then the "E" should be at the top part slightly smaller than at the bottom part.

You can make the cut-outs with simple scissors, with knife or you can use a table saw as in the picture below.

You can use the table saw for cutting the corrugated paper sheets as well. (Be careful, table saws are dangerous machines)
You can make in this way boxes like in the picture bellow:

In this boxes the cut-outs was made by scissors.
You can make this cut-outs with a slotter.

You can make the whole box from one sheet if you cut the shape bellow:

You can make in this way boxes like in the following picture:

Unfortunately you can't make more complicated boxes in this simple way.

For this box you should use a die cutting form like in the following picture.

This box was manufactured with the Paperfox H-1 cylinder die cutter ( http://www.paperfox.eu/paperfox_h-1_rotary_die_cutting_machine.html ) with a special, bigger machine table.

Paperfox MBE-1 Electric Creasing Machine

 

Our newly developed Paperfox MBE-1 electric creasing machine can crease even thick cardboards, which can't be creased by other creasing machines.

This machine is driven with a single pase 220V electric motor and you can start the creasing process with a foot swithch.