1050 Wide 8-Color Shaftless Gravure Printing Machine

Composition
Printing group unit 2                   
Electrical system 1 group

Product Overview

The "8-color" part refers to the machine's ability to print up to eight colors in a single pass, which matters a lot for packaging that needs detailed graphics, brand logos, or multi-tone patterns. Combined with three independent motors and a computer control system, the machine keeps tension, speed, and color registration in sync across the entire print run, so the finished roll comes out consistent from the first meter to the last.

At its core, this is a printing group unit built around gravure technology — ink is etched into a printing cylinder and transferred onto the film as it passes through. That process, paired with hot air drying between color stations, is what gives the printed film clean edges and steady color depth, even at production speed.

Specific Applications
1. Printing multi-color branding and product graphics on flexible packaging film for food, snack, and daily goods packaging
2. Producing printed BOPP and PE rolls used for bag-making lines (vest bags, flat bags, courier bags)
3. Printing PET and PVC film for label stock, wrapping film, and lamination-ready substrates
4. Running short-to-medium batch print jobs where frequent roll changes are common, thanks to the shaftless setup
5. Supporting packaging converters that need matched color registration across wide, multi-color layouts

Core Functions

The 1050 Wide 8-Color Shaftless Gravure Printing Machine is built around a few working parts that define how it performs day to day.

1. Shaftless roll handling removes the need for a physical shaft running through the roll core, so loading and unloading rolls takes less manual effort and less downtime between jobs.

2. Three-motor drive system separates control of unwinding, printing, and rewinding, which helps keep tension steady across the web even as roll diameter changes during a run.

3. Computer control system manages the printing process — speed, tension, and color alignment are coordinated through the control panel rather than adjusted manually at each station.

4. Circular hole air curtain hot air drying dries each color layer before the film reaches the next printing station, which is part of what keeps the machine running at higher speed without smearing.

5. Registration accuracy on this machine is rated at about ±0.12mm longitudinal comprehensive color registration (tested on BOPP-PET combinations), which matters directly for multi-color print quality.

Procurement Motivations

Buyers typically look at a 1050 Wide 8-Color Shaftless Gravure Printing Machine for one of three reasons.

Launching a private label line — packaging converters and brand owners who want to bring printing in-house, rather than outsourcing color printing to a third party, use this type of machine to control print quality and turnaround directly.

Scaling wholesale packaging supply — distributors and packaging suppliers serving multiple downstream customers need consistent, repeatable color output across large production runs, which is where the multi-motor and computer control setup earns its keep.

Cost optimization on production runs — the shaftless design cuts down on roll-change labor and downtime, and running printing and drying in one continuous line reduces the number of separate processing steps a converter needs to manage.