RC-1 Screen Printing Machine
- Ideal for printing any flat surface
- Optional integrations such as loader and unloaders to automate your printing process.
- Approximately 1,800 prints per hour (depending on product).
- Machine can operate in single cycle or fully automatic mode.
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Product Description
Quick, Accurate & Modular
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• Dependable Engineering: Powered by a 110V AC Tech brushless motor with an all-mechanical Geneva indexer for smooth, harmonic motion—ensuring durability and continuous operation.
• Simple, Maintenance-Free Control: Designed without a PLC, the RC-1 uses an innovative cam box controller, eliminating electrical obsolescence issues and allowing easy program adjustments with basic tools.
• Flexible Applications: Originally created for advertising specialties, the RC-1 is perfect for medium to high-volume printing on glass, ceramics, electronics, cosmetics, and automotive parts, handling challenging 3D products with ease.
• Affordable and Serviceable: With an overload clutch for safety and a design manufactured in Connecticut, this machine offers long-lasting, trouble-free operation that operators can easily service.
The RC-1 combines rugged performance and cost-efficiency—ideal for companies seeking reliable, high-quality printing on a range of materials.
RC-1 Specifications
A rotary-center precision printer with an eight-position locking index table — parts load and unload while the machine prints, and a rake take-off clears each finished part automatically.
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Print stroke | 20″ (500 mm) |
| Index table | Eight-position, 32″ (810 mm) positive-locking rotary table with two-point doweling for mounting fixtures |
| Registration | X, Y and angular screen frame micro-adjust |
| Squeegee / flood bar | 6″ (152 mm) squeegee holder · 7″ (177 mm) flood bar |
| Take-off (standard) | Modular automatic rake-type take-off · optional pick-and-place take-off with interchangeable suction-cup heads |
| Sustained vacuum (option) | Regenerative-blower vacuum zone holds parts through an extended portion of the dial's rotation |
| Custom nesting | Vacuum holding nests built to your part — example: four-station shoe-insole nests |
| Take-off accumulation (option) | Stacking conveyor collects parts from the pick-and-place take-off |
| International builds | 50 Hz / European-voltage UV curing compatibility available |
One Dial, Many Parts
- Overlap the work — with eight positions on the dial, loading and unloading happen while the print stroke runs, so the machine sets the pace instead of the operator.
- Fixtures that repeat — two-point doweling means a fixture comes off and goes back on in exact registration, every time.
- Odd, soft, or curved parts — vacuum nests are built to your part; insoles, lids, and irregular flats all run on the same dial.
- Grows to full automation — the servo version of this platform drives the fully automatic Microscope Slide Printer.
Features
Engineering Features
- Machine tool quality and durability.
- Stainless steel air cylinders.
- 100% made in USA.
- Hardened, ground, and polished shafts with linear ball bearings rated at over 300 million cycles.
- Smooth acceleration and deceleration of dial motion.
- All Mechanical Geneva indexer.
- Easy to service.
- Variable print stroke length.
- Universal screen mounting.
- Easily removable squeegee/flood bar assembly.
- Smooth, quiet operation.
- Carriage opens pneumatically for screen cleaning and set up.
- Hinged rear screen frame holder to provide quick access to screen, squeegee and flood bar.
- Doweled nesting plates for quick changeover.
- Machine can operate in single cycle or fully automatic mode.
Standard Features
- Remote control panel with variable speed controls.
- Emergency stop button–releases and exhausts all power to the system.
- Stainless steel air cylinders.
- Single-cycle push button for set up.
- X-Y screen frame micro adjust.
- Heavy duty welded base.
- Foot pedal cycle start.
- Rake type take-off device.
- Front carriage interlock.
- 32″ 8-position dial.
- Changeable indexing, can easily be changed to 4, 6, 8, 12 or 24 stations.
Options
- Dial indicators for screen frame holder micro adjust.
- Vacuum table aircraft aluminum honeycomb construction guaranteed flat within +/- .001” (.025mm).
- Retracting stop pins for vacuum table.
- Dual print head for precise squeegee pressure for images 16”(406mm) or wider.
- Adjustable squeegee angle.
- Two dial indicators mounted to the X, Y screen frame micro adjust table.
- Take off device.
- Stacking conveyor for take-off accumulation.
- Vacuum systems for securing products.
- Regenerative ½ hp vacuum pump.
- Extra station on indexer dial.
- Additional indexing dial.
