Zip-A3E Mark IV

Cutter Slitter

Cutter Slitter

The Zip-A3E Mark IV cutter slitter is a high speed, heavy-duty, programmable cutter slitter featuring proven reliability and outstanding crosscutting and slitting accuracy.

Video: 25-up Business Cards

Running business cards, for example, the Zip-A3E runs 2.3 to 5.3 times faster than throughput speeds advertised by competitive models.

Unfortunately, advertised “speed” doesn’t necessarily mean much in the real world.

Low capacity feeders and tray/bin deliveries can dramatically decrease productivity while increasing operator workload.

With the Zip-A3E Mark IV cutter slitter, customers get the highest throughput speed combined with a high capacity feeder and delivery conveyor as standard equipment.

The Zip-A3E is a unique production machine that is ideally suited to finish a wide range of multiple up digitally printed products quickly, accurately and reliably.

The Zip-A3E is the only cutter slitter that offers the combination of features and capabilities required to maximize the profit potential of your business.

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter is a high speed, heavy-duty, programmable cutter slitter featuring proven reliability and outstanding crosscutting and slitting accuracy.

Running business cards, for example, the Zip-A3E Mark IV runs 2.3 to 5.3 times faster than throughput speeds advertised by competitive models.

Capabilities

Programmable Crosscut

The Zip-A3E Mark IV cutter slitter can be programmed to quickly and accurately crosscut products from sheets using a “scissor” or variable width “gutter” crosscut.


Inline Slitting

The Zip-A3E is the fastest cutter slitter in the world.

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter uses gutter cut style slitting blades. Gutter cut slitting blades are ideal for finishing products that have been printed with bleeds and create a gap between finished products to improve product delivery and collection. Various width gutter cut blades are available.

Gutter cut slitting blades are mounted in spring loaded hubs to maintain optimal contact pressure between the cutting edges of the blades.

THERM-O-TYPE gutter cut slitting blades are exceptionally durable and come with a unique “chip proof” blade guarantee.

The Zip-A3E can slit products as narrow as 1” wide with standard tooling.


Semi-Slit, Perf & Score

Semi-slitting, scoring and perforating rotary tooling is available for the Zip-A3E.

All Zip-A3E Mark IV cutter slitter rotary tooling is made to high precision standards and tailored to provide consistent results. Anvil perforating and penetration perforating tooling is available to meet customer requirements.


Features

Touch Screen Controls

Creating, storing and recalling programs, as well as, machine operation is controlled through a Windows touch screen computer with a 10.2” full color display.

Up to 500 individual programs can be stored and retrieved.

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter features the most advanced control system available.


High Capacity Feeder

The Zip-A3E uses an offset press style suction feeder with a 13.5” capacity paper lift tray. Additional features include; “Big Foot” suckers, double sheet detect/interrupt, pile height control, blower to float sheets in the feeder, adjustable suction, “express down” feature to lower the feed tray and easily adjusted paper guides.

While competitive models use a fan/belt style feeder with a 4” to 6” paper capacity, the Zip-A3E Mark IV cutter slitter provides a high quality feeder capable of feeding a wide range of uncoated/coated and laminated sheets with maximum efficiency and durability.


Full Length Register Table

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter uses a full length alignment table with micro side-to-side and skew adjustment. Using the full length alignment table, the Zip-A3E can consistently and accurately register each sheet before it enters the cutting/slitting section of the machine.

It is virtually impossible for any competitive model, which lacks a full length registration table, to consistently match the side registration accuracy of the Zip-A3E Mark IV.


Registration Mode

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter can register from the lead edge of the sheet or from a lead edge registration mark.

Registering from a lead edge registration mark, the Zip-A3E can automatically compensate for up/down imprint variations without affecting throughput speed.


Accumulative Error

The Zip-A3E can compensate for accumulative positioning errors along the length of the sheet. This important feature insures that the image on the first and last product on each sheet are uniformly positioned vertically.


Guillotine Cutter

Precision machined upper and lower metering rollers accurately advance sheets through the guillotine cutting section of the Zip-A3E cutter slitter. Heavy-duty guillotine cutting blades are exceptionally durable and the blades are spring loaded to maintain optimal contact pressure.

A pneumatic system ejects narrow lead, tail and crosscut gutter strips from the guillotine cutter.

Some competitive machines use guillotine cutting blades that cannot be re-sharpened. These machines require expensive replacement parts whenever the guillotine cutter blades become damaged or dull.

THERM-O-TYPE provides a low cost re-sharpened guillotine cutter blade exchange program, significantly reducing machine life cycle costs.


Waste Eject Gate

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter waste gate increases productivity.

The Zip-A3E Mark IV cutter slitter features a programmable waste eject gate.

Competitive models require that oversize waste pieces are crosscut into narrow strips so they can fall into the waste collection tray. Requiring additional crosscut cycles, to remove this waste, decreases productivity and increases wear on the guillotine cutting mechanism and blades.

Using the Zip-A3E waste eject gate, oversize waste pieces can be ejected into the waste collection tray intact. This feature reduces un-necessary crosscut cycles, increasing throughput speed and decreasing wear.


Pre-set/Auto Adj. Cassettes

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter can be run with fixed blade position or Auto Adjust rotary tooling cassettes. While some customers use their Zip-A3E Pro machines to finish a limited range of product sizes and formats, other customers require more product size flexibility.

THERM-O-TYPE can provide fixed blade position and/or Auto Adjust rotary tooling cassettes tailored to meet individual customer requirements.

All cassettes can be removed/installed in less than a minute, without tools.


Up to 18 pt. Thick Stock

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter handles thick stock.

The feeder, paper alignment, crosscutting and inline slitting features on the Zip-A3E have been designed to easily handle paper thicknesses up to and including 18 pt.


1” by 1.7” Min. Product Size

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter can crosscut and slit products as small as 1” x 1.7” using standard tooling. This is significantly smaller than competitive models.

The ability to run smaller product sizes can be an important factor, especially for customers producing tickets, tags, mini-business cards and similar products.


Delivery Conveyor

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter features a delivery conveyor as standard equipment. The delivery conveyor ensures non-stop collection of finished products and allows the operator to separate individual orders while the machine is running.

The Zip-A3E cutter slitter can also be equipped with an extended length delivery conveyor.

Many competitive models use bins or even a flat tray to collect finished products. Bins/trays are inherently inefficient for three main reasons; they require the operator to stop the machine to collect finished products, they make it impossible for operators to easily separate individual orders while the machine is running, smaller products often do not stack neatly causing delivery jams.


Comparison

ProductZip-A3EZip-CSCLZip-TS2LDC-745
Business Cards (square corners)XXXX
- MiniXXXX
- Fold over (square corners)XXXX
- Round cornerX
- EmbossedX
- Sq./Rnd corner cards over 16 pt. (up to 30 pt)X
- Fold over w/round cornerX
- Fold over w/embossX
- Fold over w/die cutX
Round corner playing cardsX
Tickets (2" x 2" or larger)XXXX
Tickets (smaller than 2" x 2")XXX
Post cards (square corners)XXXX
Post cards (round corners)X
Greeting cards, 2-panel (5" x 7"/127mm x 178mm)XXXX
- w/decorative die cuttingX
- w/embossingX
- w/round corners (before folding)X
- w/round corners (after folding)X
Greeting cards, 3-panel "Z" fold (5" x 7") with up/down creaseXX
- w/die cuttingX
- w/embossingX
- w/round cornersX
Accordion fold products (=/< 18" long) with up/down creaseXX
- w/holes punched for snap closureX
Direct mail pieces (w/"T" perfs)XXX
Direct mail pieces (w/"L" perfs)XX
Direct mail pieces with "perimeter perforations"X
Door hangersX
- w/perf stubX
Parking tagsX
- w/perf stubX
Display tents, horizontal (w/lock tabs)X
Display tents, vertical (w/lock tabs)X
CD/DVD casesX
Feeder pile capacity13.5"/343mm13.5"/343mm13.5"/343mm6"/150mm
DeliveryDelivery conveyorDelivery conveyorDelivery conveyorTray bins
Minimum finished piece length1.7"/443.18mm1.7"/443.18mm1.7"/443.18mm1.96"/50mm
Minimum finished piece width1.0"/25.4mm1.0"/25.4mm1.0"/25.4mm1.88"/48mm
Maximum crosscuts in one pass2620
Maximum paper thicknessUp to 18 pt.Up to 27 pt.15/16 pt./350 gsm
Warranty - Mechanical/Electrical parts (Limited)1 Year / 1 Year1 Year / 1 Year1 Year / 1 Year1 Year / 90 days

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