Peter Frei of Pantec said, the speed of Rhino is up by 70% since its launch in 2010.

“Rhino IIS is the latest in the series. It is a single-pass foil embossing system with 410x410 stamping area, revolvable head, registered hologram streams and six independent heating zones.”

The machine will be commercially available from February 2018.

According to Frei, there are more than 80 Rhino devices installed worldwide, running on several press brands like Mark Andy, Gallus, MPS, Miyakoshi, Nilpeter, Omet, Rotatek and Lombardi among others.

Pantec also demonstrated its Swift as an alternative to registered patches.

“Based on the customer requirements, Swift can be configured with up to six registered hologram foils combined with independent foil saving pattern. At insetting performance of 20 holograms per second, Swift place more than two lakh patches per hour with three labels across the web,” said Frei.

Swift works with movable vacuum walls, which allows changing the number of foil streams and width easy and the cassette change concept allows job preparation offline and reduces set-up time.

Frei explained the comparison of hot foil and cold foil application demonstrated a saving of 95% with hot foil against cold foil at an inline web speed of 70 metres per minute.