Currently commercial print jobs, magazines and wet-adhesive labels are predominantly finished with cold-transfer decorations via sheet-fed printing. They provide a brilliant gloss finish, as well as offering great performance and an excellent price-performance ratio. SPN has discovered that the latest from Kurz, the KPS SX+ offers high quality, optimal process stability by matching customised cold-transfer designs with a substrate by means of a special adhesive.
Furthermore, when it comes to improving sustainability, the company’s Recosys® process, is the first in the world to make it possible for any transfer-residue films to be recycled. Here the story is taken up by Kurz: “With its extended production window, KPS SX+ masters the balance between design diversity and technical possibilities, plus free’s you from the costly constraints of several products for different finishes. This quality is suitable for conventional systems, as well as UV systems in terms of adhesives and colours, for different substrates, food packaging and foil saving units, for both large-scale and delicate motifs.
Clear advantages
From the technical and economic point of view, there is a significant reduction in production costs. Stable, high quality production quality, design flexibility and an easy to set-up Plug-and-Play process. In addition, the process optimises material resources
Broad-spectrum design
Processed with the right consumables, the new KPS SX+ embellishment is also ideal for jobs where laminates are to be replaced:
- High gloss level
- High opacity
- Advanced design possibilities, from large-scale to delicate
- Flexible overprinting
- Works optimally on all cold transfer units
- For all adhesives/color systems: UV, oxidation-conventional, low-migration
- For a wide selection of substrates
High-scoring Sustainability
The Kurz KPS SX+ not only meets global requirements, it also does not affect the automatic sorting process, nor the packaging de-inkability or composting processes. This means that the end product remains recyclable and de-inkable. In fact, what really makes the difference is that as with all transfer products from Kurz, no film or laminate remains on the surface of the finished product, simply extremely thin layers of coating. In addition to this, the KPS series is qualified as KPS RECO+ for the KURZ PET recycling program RECOSYS®. This return and recycling system re-processes a valuable raw material from used PET carriers.
RECOSYS® is the world’s first process that makes it possible for Kurz transfer film residues to be recycled. The system can be used to produce both recyclables and monomers for PET polymerisation. This converts residual transfer products into a high-quality injection molding material called RECOPOUND®.
Announcing ‘KPS Slim’
KPS slim (patent pending): Provides premium Cold Transfer on 6 µm with First-Class Sustainability Benefits. With this latest development we are raising our sustainability bar yet further. In order to match our wafer-thin metallisation layers, we have now significantly slimmed down the transfer-carrier for our cold transfer decoration. In this way, we are reducing the PET carrier thickness of our decoration product by a huge 50%. In turn, this means more running meters on one roll, fewer reel changes, and therefore less downtime and faster set-up times. All-in-all, the PET is only a carrier material and is not applied to your print sheets. What remains on your packaging is a brilliant gloss, even on complex surfaces. KPS slim is optimal for challenging designs and fine gradations.
It also scores clear points when it comes to the special features of demanding surfaces: In the case of structured material, the thin carrier lies optimally in the structure and thus achieves good decoration opacity, which would otherwise not be possible with 12 µm. With a difficult material, it is the detachability of the coating from the carrier that makes it possible to decorate successfully, without affecting the sheet quality (depending on blanket and adhesive).
Premium Performance means….
- Maximum process safety and efficiency
- Reduced adhesive consumption
- Higher opacity
- More gloss
- Extremely high design flexibility
- Even half tones/gradations with just one product (depending on the printing blanket)
- High speed
- Better transfer to difficult substrates
- Improved edge definition
- Fewer reel changes
Premium sustainability:
- More running meters on one roll
- Lower weight with the same running meters
- Less waste and decreased disposal costs
- Thinner PET carrier
- Reduced carbon footprint
Kurz cold transfer for sheet-fed offset printing provides unrivalled impact at the Point-of-Sale (POS). Whether inline or offline, our products perform optimally with sheet-fed offset printing. Plus: Kurz cold transfer has substantially widened the spectrum of design possibilities, thus enabling metallic gloss designs to be produced that would rarely be achievable to a comparable level of brilliance by any other means”.