THE BASICS

In press rooms, ink, varnishes and paper are the three materials constantly running through the presses - leaving behind remnants of paper fibers, varnish and ink on press parts.

These contaminants have to be removed on a regular basis with ink being the messiest and most troublesome.

At most plants, these dirty parts are painstakingly being hand cleaned in petrochemical solvents - you can imagine the drudgery and the cost. It doesn't have to be that way any more...with a BE parts washer, these items are automatically cleaned with detergent and water, the benefits are extraordinary:

	Cut out solvents in the cleaning process of press parts and replaced with detergent and water
	Eliminated serious health hazards that can result from using solvents
	Increased environmental compliancy
	Tremendous cost savings in labor
	Huge reduction in cleaning time, just push a button and walk away

Choosing from Better Engineering's broad line of automatic parts cleaning systems, printers will typically purchase a turntable style unit sized to handle their specific parts and volume.

Inside the sealed cabinet, the rotating parts are blasted from all directions with a 165° F detergent and water solution. The solution is continuously filtered and recycled from the machine's reservoir. In just 3 to 18 minutes, all the ink is stripped off and the clean parts are ready to be unloaded.

Just look at how much time (and we all know time equals money) has been cut by switching from hand cleaning to automated:

Ink bucket: ink removed after a 3 minute wash cycle - typically a 30 minute process when done by hand.		Multiple supply blades: ink removed on several blades at one time in only 3 minutes-hand washing takes 5 minutes per blade.		Auger motors: baked on ink removed in 18 minutes.