Esko i-XE Series

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Kongsberg i-XE Series - unmatched performance and versitility

The Kongsbreg i-XE Series is EskoArtwork's completely new platform, designed to provide an efficient and versatile finishing solution for short-run production of articles for visual communication, labels, signs and displays.

Building upon its experience and expertise with the Kongsberg i-XL large format digital finishing systems for rigid materials, Esko has incorporated a number of features from the architecture of its widely popular digital cutting and creasing tables.  With the Kongsberg i-XE Series, users can expect a digital finishing solution for small format, lightweight and flexible materials that outperforms other solutions in both productivity and precision.

Asisted by a rack-and-pinion X/Y drive with precise motion control, an innovative, fast servo system and completely new tool set, the i-XE Series combines high production speed and accurate precision with easy operation.

i-cut vision: perfect registration

With the Kongsberg i-XE Series you can cut custom shapes right on the
finishing table with exact registration between graphics and finishing.

The i-cut® vision system works with strategically placed registration marks– alignment dots – that are printed along with the graphics and are used to align the cutting path. The i-cut® camera optically locates and analyzes the registration marks, and automatically and dynamically compensates for any dimensional changes, distortions or material variations – like shrinking or stretching. Along with the i-cut® software, the i-cut® vision system is a fail-safe, patented and proven registration method that guarantees perfect cut-to-print.

i-script™: finishing workflow 

The i-script protocol allows interfacing between printing and cutting components to share critical data. Job data such as cutting design, scale, rotation and layout of different designs and registration marks can be passed directly from the printing control RIP workstation to the Kongsberg i-XE table.

The i-script™ workflow dramatically improves productivity, finishing a complete sheet or roll of material with virtually no set-up time.

Conveyer system

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The Kongsberg i-XE tables can be equipped with a conveyer system for automated material processing.

Very simply, a continuous conveyer belt surrounds the table and moves over the table surface. Material follows the belt along the table, held down by pneumatic supports.  Production applications requiring uninterrupted loading of material are made possible with i-cut’s continuous workflow operation.

Material can be constantly retrieved from a roll, or sheets can be automatically fed through a sheet feeding system.

Sheet feeding system

The MGE sheet feeding system features a ‘Pick & Place’ unit along with a loading table, on which sheets are stacked for finishing. Sheets are picked up one-by-one with suction cups and placed on the Kongsberg i-XE conveyer belt for transfer onto the finishing table. The finished material is then collected from the belt and placed on an off-load table, or moved to a conveyer extension table for manual unloading.