Definition of Task

• Printing of text and logos on welded steel pipeline tubes (diameter 500 to 1400 mm, length up to 12 m)

Special Product Specification

• Coding on both ends of steel tube with up to 15 lines of text
• Printing inside and outside the tube at the same time
• Fully automated application with 2 KUKA robots on both sides of tube, each holding two REA-JET DOD marking heads on two arms
• Communication to robot controller to transmit print message to REA system
• Automatic adjustment (slanting) of print head to generate various print heights (20 to 50 mm)
• Printing commences also in reverse mode while robot arm turns left/right inside and into the tube
• Printing commences also in reverse mode while robot arm turns left/right inside and into the tubeSpeed of print head moved by robot arm: up to 180 m/min.
• Number of tubes: 1 tube every 2 minutes
• Dirty ambient conditions

REA JET Solution

• System: 4x SKP 16/180, 2x SG 2/16, 1x ST200
• Ink supply unit: 4x TVPP 2L

Large Character Printing System 16-nozzles System

Advantages of the REA JET solution

• Very well readable code inside and outside the pipe
• Flexible printing of various text messages in different text heights
• Replacing of former manual marking method using paint and stencil