Crate automatic rotating screen printing machine

Automatic Rotary Screen Printing Machine for Plastic Crates

          Tool boxes, turnover boxes, plastic crates, and packaging containers often require screen printing on their side surfaces for branding, product identification, and decorative purposes. A dedicated crate screen printing machine is designed to handle these applications efficiently. Similar to conventional screen printing equipment, the machine typically uses customized fixtures or clamps to securely hold the crate during printing, preventing movement or vibration and ensuring consistent print quality.  Plastic crates and large box-shaped products generally have a relatively large internal volume, which means the distance between the screen frame and worktable can exceed 500 mm. For single-side printing, the process is comparatively straightforward, as the crate can be securely positioned and fixed on the worktable. However, modern crate printing requirements are becoming increasingly diverse, including double-sided printing, identical graphics on both sides, or different graphics on each side.  For these applications, the automatic crate screen printing machine can be configured with customized fixtures, product positioning systems, and automatic rotation mechanisms according to the product structure and printing requirements. This flexible design enables efficient printing on multiple surfaces while maintaining accurate positioning and stable product handling, making it suitable for plastic crates, turnover boxes, tool boxes, and other large box-shaped products.

Flat Beer crate screen printing machine with T-Groove table//Usage

• • T-shaped groove feature flat screen printing machine is suitable for a particular shape, able to produce in the trenches gripped hard products screen printing machine;Such as electrical panels, glass, ornaments, gifts and printing;
  • Structural design using halftone pattern up and down movement, more conducive to the removal and placement; 
  • Stable horizontal cylinder design, squeegee pressure uniform, back to Mexico, smooth, good quality printing;
  • Can be semi-automatic operation, a good user interface;
  • Machine commissioning process is provided with a single-function operation, set up allows for full function operation.
  • High Precision liner guide-way installed to control the movement of Rubber squeegee and screen frame. widely used to print circuit aboard , Film switch panel etc industrial field.

Flat Beer crate screen printing machine with T-Groove table//Parameters

Max printing thickness: 150 mm; Air consumption: 60 Litre/Min; Dimension of working table: 400×600 mm; Max printing areas: 300×400 mm; Max printing speed: 1000 Pcs/H; Max frame dimension: 500×620 mm;

Compress air: 5-7 bar. Stroke of cylinder up and down:160 mm; Stroke of Squeegee: 400 mm. Table Precision: 0.05 mm; Rang adjustment of table: 10 mm

Flat beer crate screen printing machine with T-Groove table //Advantage

• High-precision linear guide-way control lifting and dropping of screen plate and rubber squeegee;
• Vacuum table to facilitate the production of Soft and thin , suitable for Printing Paper, film and UV Coating Process;
• Screen Form up and down movement of contact with the table, suitable for hand-placed and remove the product;
• Distance of the screen and table to the flexibility to adjust for different heights of the product silk screen;
• Screen form Clamping device free to adjust to fit different sizes of screen;
• Screen Plate clamping device can be adjusted Front and back, left and right, up and down, the angle of the fine-tuning in order to fine-tune the exact location of the pattern in the product above;
• Stroke of the scraper can be flexibly adjusted the pattern to suit different size;
• Squeegee pressure can be individually adjusted to fit any high-precision screen printing;
• Microcomputer program control operations;
• 4-Digit auto counter; to facilitate the measurement of production efficiency.

How to choose Crate screen printing machine? 

        Crate screen printing machine is a screen printing machine for some rectangular box containers. The structure itself has not changed much. The main feature is that a cantilever fixture can be made to hang the box for printing. Box printing is very simple technically, but it is not easy to choose the most optimized and efficient screen printer.

This type of box has four sides, and different users have different printing requirements for the four sides:

1. Print only one side

1) One color per side

It is relatively simple to print only one side. Make a fixture to make the printing surface at the top, and the screen of the screen printer can be printed when it drops.

2) Print multiple colors on one side

In most cases, one side will not be printed in more than three colors. You can buy multiple screen printers, each printing one color, and print more colors by changing the ink and screen on the same screen printer. This is a more cumbersome procedure. If you buy a shuttle-type multi-color flat screen printer, the cumbersome procedure will be greatly reduced, and the screen printer will help you solve the problem.

 

2 Print two symmetrical surfaces

The same pattern

Some users require printing on the two symmetrical surfaces of the box: There are two situations. One is to print the same pattern. In this way, you can manually flip the box 180 degrees and do silk screen printing; You can also make an automatic flip fixture. After printing one side, the fixture drives the box to automatically flip 180 degrees and print the symmetrical surface.

If the user requires printing different patterns on the symmetrical surface, it must be achieved by changing the screen and ink, but this situation is rare.

 

3 Print four sides and each side is monochrome.

This situation is relatively common. There are two symmetrical surfaces on the four sides. Most users require printing the same pattern on two symmetrical surfaces and another pattern on the other symmetrical surface. This can still be achieved by changing the screen and ink. Obviously, this method is more cumbersome. The best solution is to customize a silk screen printer with two silk screen devices and automatic flip fixtures.

The box first prints one side, then automatically flips 180 degrees to print the symmetrical surface, then the shuttle moves to the next printing head, prints the third side, and then automatically flips 180 degrees to print another symmetrical surface.

4 Print four sides and each side is multi-color.

Generally, screen printer manufacturers will consider printing two colors on each side, so the four sides have a total of 8 colors, which requires an 8-head screen printer, and the workbench needs to be flipped many times. Whether to complete the two-color printing first or the flip first is a test of the screen printer program.

1) Flip first

Since the symmetrical surfaces are required to have the same pattern, the screen printer can flip first, for example, print the first color at the first station, then flip 180 degrees to print the symmetrical surface, then move the box to the second station to print the second color, and flip 180 degrees to print the symmetrical surface.

2) Overprint first

The box is first printed with the first color at the first station, then shuttled to the second station to print the second color, and then the box returns to the first station, rotates 180 degrees, and performs two-color printing on the symmetrical surface.

    There is no technical difficulty in making a screen printing machine for boxes. For users, it is nothing more than a balance between price and process. Making an assembly line may improve production efficiency, but it will also make the length of the production line unacceptable and the price will increase sharply. If the length of the production line is controlled, the number of machine flips and reciprocations will increase, affecting the printing quality.