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In the process of printing and packaging, where does Blanking play a role?
Blanking refers to the process of removing or stripping the waste paper from the die-cut cardboard without damaging the products.
General printing and packaging links include printing – die cutting – blanking – inspection – folding gluing. From these processes, we can see that blanking is in the middle of the process, which is one of the important links before the product’s final forming.
To increase the efficiency of this process, most packaging plants hire the workers to use Pneumatic waste stripper, or use an offline blanking machine to finish this work.
If the plant is with more budget, it will buy Fully automatic stripping machines or die-cutting machines with waste stripping/blanking functions to complete the process. If you are interested in these two types of machines, you can learn more about them through this article:
What function does the offline blanking machine have?
The main function of offline blanking machine is to replace artificial blanking, to accurately strip off the waste paper from the products completed by die-cutting, and to replace the links that need to be dealt with by artificial in which it may costs a lot of time by intelligent mechanization.
For packaging plants, offline blanking machine is an important step towards complete automation of the workshop. Moreover, its advantages are beyond your imagination!
What are the advantages of offline blanking machine?
1. Practicability — small orders can also be finished automatically
Compared with the die cutting machine with waste stripping function, the offline blanking machine does not need to make complicated and expensive blanking mold. It only needs simple debugging to set the data and press few buttons. For small orders can also be automated processing.
2. Wide range of application
The offline blanking machine can be applied to not only cardboard, and corrugated board but also PE, PVC products. In addition, it can be adapted to a variety of special-shaped boxes or printed materials with low hardness, such as stickers, etc.
3. Diversified options — from semi-automated to fully automated
There are many types of offline blanking machines on the market. You can choose and buy them according to your actual needs. When your budget is sufficient, the automatic waste cleaning machine with automatic feeding, waste discharging, and product palletizing will help you to realize the whole process automation, and one worker can also easily operate few sets of equipment.
4. Easy operated
An inexperienced worker can get up to speed with simple training. No requirements for complex debugging.In general, it takes at least half to 2 hours to complete machine debugging for die cutting machine with waste stripping function to make it work smoothly, while it only takes 15 to 25 minutes to complete debugging for offline blanking machine.
5. Cost-effective
When workers do manual stripping, easy to cause product’s damage. And the efficiency is slow, resulting in the loss of time.
6. Save time — shorten the delivery cycle
Instead of manual operation, the machine improves efficiency by 300%. It takes an hour for ordinary workers to finish the product of one cardboard, but it only takes 20 minutes to finish it through blanking machine. It also makes your delivery faster, which leads to more orders. And the machine can continue to work at high speed while ensuring product quality. In this way, your factory can greatly save labor costs and reduce product attrition rate
7. Keep the factory environment clean
The big amount of waste paper from manual stripping will pollute the factory production environment and cause physical and mental fatigue of workers. And machine work can greatly ensure the cleanliness of the entire factory environment.
8. Quick return on the investment
Through daily maintenance, a machine can be used for at least 10 years. In a previous article, we learned that one set of stripping machines is four times more efficient than an average worker (read this article if you are interested). In addition to the cost of buying the machine, you can highly improve your production efficiency by simply paying the electricity bill, which means the you will be able to earn the money you invested on the machine in a quite short time.
Conclusion
Blanking&Stripping is a very important steps in the printing and packaging industry. When many printing and packaging factories are still using pneumatic tools for waste stripping, you can seize the opportunity to upgrade the automation, and If you use the blanking machines, you will stand out in the competition among peers from your high production efficiency.
