Designer and manufacturer of machines for packaging decoration Isimat has adapted the patented InLINE FOILING process it developed with Leonhard Kurz for tapered glass bottles and conical glass drinkware.

The inLINE FOILING multicolour metallisation process uses only one foil, which can be overprinted immediately with a clear varnish or a tinted varnish; multi-colour metallised images can be achieved by over-varnishing with tinted varnishes of two or more colours.

The inLINE FOILING unit takes the place of a printing unit and can be integrated into a multi-colour screen-printing machine, enabling glass decorators to streamline the glass decoration process. Screen printing with UV inks and inLINE FOILING is done in a single machine pass without additional handling.

Citing research to suggest that the preferred bottle shape for the wine market is slightly conical, and that silver and/or gold metallic elements appear on most labels of wine bottles, Isimat believes its updated decoration process offers an exciting new option for direct decoration.

inLINE FOILING is a registered trademark of ISIMAT

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