Intec has introduced the FB775, a B2+ flatbed digital cutter/creaser that handles materials up to 1000 microns thick for PoS, packaging, design sampling and prototyping applications as well as kiss-cut label production.
Designed for light-to-medium digital print finishing, the FB775 accepts sheet media up to 580 x 800mm, with an effective cutting area of 480 x 715mm and can also accommodate two SRA3 sheets simultaneously for higher productivity. Cutting and creasing jobs are processed at up to 1200mm/sec, with a typical SRA3 sheet cut time of between 15 and 45 seconds, depending on complexity.
The dual tool head supports creasing pressure up to 1.5kgf and cutting up to 1.2kgf and there are three speed modes that trade of path complexity against cutting or creasing speed. An upgraded registration system allows for quick job retrieval, with registration marks found automatically by a CCD camera. Materials that can be handled include folding box board, card, paper, synthetics, soft boards, vinyl and label stocks.
The machine is driven via the included ColorCut Production Studio package, part of Intec’s ColorCut Pro software suite. This can be used as a stand-alone application with the cutter or as part of a networked solution in conjunction with Intec’s ColorCut Pro Server Station. The latter offers a Job Library Manager workflow application and a new Template Maker application for producing vector box templates, to use with Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw.
Product and marketing manager Terri Winstanley stated, ‘The new FB775 is a really powerful yet compact digital die-cutter providing accurate and fast production efficiency for any business requiring digital finishing. Anyone who uses it can cut and crease a wide range of materials and fast! However, it’s not all about speed – this model also offers our blended speed modes, so you can cut really fast on the straights and use the high-definition setting for those intricate cuts, all on the same job at the same time. And being able to handle B2 and larger sheets, the FB775 provides the user increased productivity with a small footprint device. We are confident that at its incredibly aggressive price point, the FB775 will be an extremely popular model.’
