DACEN Industrial UV Cylinder Printer for Bottles, Cups and Drinkware
The DACEN digital cylinder printer is built for one job: decorating cylindrical vessels in production, repeatedly. Bottles, cups, tumblers and cylindrical packaging are clamped on a controlled rotary axis and printed in a single digital pass, so a full-wrap design moves from artwork to finished product without plates, screens or applied labels. Because every project starts with a different vessel, DACEN configures the machine around yours - fixture, ink set, pretreatment route and print mode are all confirmed against your sample before purchase. As a factory-direct manufacturer with OEM/ODM capability, DACEN supports single-machine purchases, multi-unit project supply and integration into existing production lines.
UV Cylinder Printer Core Benefit
Seamless Full-Wrap Decoration Without Plates or Labels
DACEN prints continuous graphics around the full circumference of a vessel in one controlled digital operation, removing plate-making, screen setup and secondary label application from the decoration process. Controlled rotary motion keeps image placement consistent from the first piece to the last in a batch, which matters more to a packaging manufacturer than peak resolution: a brand approves a production run on consistency, not on a single perfect sample.
Straight and Tapered Vessels Handled as Different Geometries
Tapered tumblers and conical glassware distort artwork when treated as simple cylinders. DACEN configures rotary movement and artwork compensation around the measured geometry of your vessel, so logos and type keep their intended proportions across the printed band. Where a vessel falls outside the supported taper range, DACEN states that during sample evaluation rather than after installation - protecting you from an equipment decision that cannot serve your SKU list.
White, Colour and Optional Gloss in One Digital Workflow
Transparent glass, dark bottles and premium packaging usually need an opaque white base, a colour layer and sometimes a selective gloss finish. DACEN builds these layers within a single controlled workflow instead of routing the vessel through separate decoration processes, reducing handling steps and the risk of misalignment between layers. For wine, spirits and cosmetic packaging buyers, this is the difference between a digital sample and a digitally produced package.
Faster Changeover on Multi-SKU and Repeat Orders
For most bottle and drinkware factories, machine time is lost between jobs rather than during them. DACEN stores vessel dimensions, print position, print mode and curing settings as reusable job recipes, so a returning order can be restored without rebuilding the setup from scratch. Buyers running short runs across many SKUs should evaluate this alongside cycle time - recovered setup hours often outweigh a small difference in seconds per piece.
Adhesion Confirmed on Your Substrate, Not Claimed in General
Glass formulation, powder coating, PP, PET and acrylic all behave differently, and untested pretreatment is the most common cause of ink failure after installation. DACEN evaluates your actual vessel - material, coating and surface condition - and recommends the ink and pretreatment route before production approval, supported by cross-hatch, wash and scratch testing. You buy against a documented result on your product rather than a blanket adhesion claim.
Factory-Direct Supply with OEM/ODM and Line Integration
DACEN supplies as a manufacturer, which means fixtures, automation interfaces and machine configuration are engineering conversations rather than catalogue limitations. Custom tooling for unusual vessels, automated loading, integrated pretreatment and data interfaces for variable-data production can be scoped as part of a project quotation. For distributors and project buyers, factory-direct supply also means clearer spare-part pricing, defined lead times and direct technical escalation.
Customer Pain Points
Labels Add Inventory, Handling and Cost to Every SKU
Applied labels multiply stock-keeping: each design, each language version and each limited edition becomes a separate purchased item with its own minimum order, storage space and obsolescence risk. Label application also adds a handling stage, and short runs rarely justify the setup. For manufacturers running dozens of SKUs, decoration cost is dominated by label logistics rather than by printing itself.
How DACEN solves it: direct digital printing removes label purchasing, storage and application from the workflow, allowing designs to be changed between vessels without consuming physical inventory.
Tapered Vessels Distort Full-Wrap Artwork
A design prepared as a flat rectangle wraps unevenly on a conical tumbler or shouldered bottle: type stretches toward the wider end and logos lose proportion. Operators then compensate manually, artwork files multiply, and results vary between shifts. Buyers usually discover the limit only after committing to equipment that treats every vessel as a plain cylinder. How DACEN solves it: DACEN configures artwork compensation and rotary motion against the measured taper of your vessel, and states clearly which geometries fall outside the supported range before purchase.
Ink Peels on Glass, Coated Metal or Plastic
Adhesion failures rarely appear on day one. They appear after washing, after a scratch test, or after a brand's own durability protocol - by which point the equipment is installed and the order is committed. Different glass formulations, powder coatings and plastic grades need different surface preparation, and "suitable for all materials" claims collapse under real end-use testing.
How DACEN solves it: DACEN tests your actual substrate and defines a specific ink and pretreatment route, documenting the result with cross-hatch, wash and scratch testing before production approval.
Frequent SKU Changes Consume Productive Machine Hours
In short-run and personalised production, a machine can spend more time being reconfigured than printing. Fixture swaps, position re-teaching, curing adjustments and colour re-approval all consume operator time, and results drift when setup depends on individual experience rather than stored parameters. How DACEN solves it: reusable job recipes restore vessel dimensions, print position and curing settings for returning orders, reducing manual recalibration and the variation it introduces between operators.
Technical Specifications
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Item |
Parameter |
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Machine size and dimension |
1812 L *660 W*1820 H mm,300kg |
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Power |
50HZ AC220/110±>10A Ground wire |
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Print size |
Height 40-270mm |
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Print diameter |
diameter 18-120mm (can be customized as required) |
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Printhead |
RICOH GEN5i |
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Print head quantity |
3 pcs |
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Resolution |
900/1200 dpi |
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Print speed |
Subject to technical agreement |
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Printing rotation angle |
360° |
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Max taper drop |
6 Angle |
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Ink |
UV ink |
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Ink color |
K C M Y W V |
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RIP software |
RIPPRINT |
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File format |
JPEG,Tiff,PDF,EPS ect |
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Curing system |
UV-LED Curing system |
Applications
Each application below follows the same structure so buyers can locate their own product quickly: what is printed, the material reality, the printing challenge, and what DACEN needs from you to evaluate it.
Wine and Spirits Bottles
Glass wine and spirits bottles are printed directly with brand artwork, limited-edition designs and personalised content, replacing or supplementing pressure-sensitive labels. The technical work is in the glass: transparent bodies need an opaque white base built under the colour layer, and cured ink must survive chilling, condensation, handling and the brand's own abrasion protocol. DACEN evaluates the specific bottle - glass formulation, surface condition, shoulder profile - before recommending the pretreatment route and print mode, because batch consistency and durability matter far more to a bottler than a single attractive sample.
Beverage and Water Bottles
Glass, coated metal and compatible plastic beverage bottles benefit most from digital decoration where SKU count is high and batch size is low - regional versions, seasonal designs, market tests and co-branded runs. Direct printing removes the label minimum-order problem that makes short beverage runs uneconomic, and variable content allows regional or campaign-specific artwork to be produced without new tooling. Substrate varies widely across this segment, so each bottle type is assessed separately rather than grouped as "plastic".
Stainless-Steel Tumblers and Sports Bottles
Powder-coated, spray-painted and bare stainless vessels behave as three different substrates and must be tested as such - coating chemistry, not the base metal, usually decides adhesion. Full-wrap brand graphics and per-piece personalisation are the two dominant jobs here, and buyers almost always run a dishwasher or scratch protocol before approving a supplier. Tapered tumbler bodies additionally require artwork compensation to keep logos proportional across the printed band.
Plastic and Acrylic Cups
PP, PET, PVC and acrylic differ in surface energy, heat tolerance and rigidity, so they cannot be quoted as a single "plastic" category. Lightweight and thin-wall cups introduce a second issue that has nothing to do with ink: clamping force sufficient for stable rotation can deform the vessel. DACEN evaluates both the surface preparation route and the fixture contact strategy during sample testing, and states where a wall thickness is too low for reliable production.
Cosmetic Bottles and Jars
Cosmetic packaging demands small legible type, exact brand colour and clean white under transparent or dark containers, usually across many SKUs at low volume with frequent new-product sampling. Whether the shoulder and neck areas can be printed is often the deciding question, since cosmetic containers are rarely simple straight cylinders. DACEN defines the printable band on your actual container and confirms the achievable minimum type size before configuration.
Promotional Drinkware and Personalised Production
Event, corporate gift and campaign work is defined by short lead times, many designs and per-piece names or numbers. The economics depend on how quickly the machine moves between jobs, not on peak speed, which makes stored job recipes and variable data handling the two features that decide profitability. DACEN configures this workflow around your typical order profile rather than a theoretical maximum output.
Print Testing and Machine Quality Control
DACEN treats quality control as two separate obligations: the machine must be built and verified to a repeatable standard, and the printed result must be validated on the customer's own substrate. On the machine side, DACEN's production sequence covers incoming component inspection, mechanical assembly, guide-rail and rotary-axis calibration, printhead installation and electrical checking, white ink circulation and negative-pressure verification, UV curing validation, standard-vessel print testing, 360° seam inspection, adhesion testing, continuous-run testing and final factory acceptance before packing and container loading. On the print side, DACEN evaluates your actual vessel: cross-hatch adhesion testing to ASTM D3359 or an equivalent method, tape peel, water immersion or dishwasher exposure, alcohol rub, dry and wet rub, scratch resistance and ΔE colour deviation across batches, together with nozzle condition and positional deviation recorded during continuous running.
Manufacturing, Configuration and Project Supply Support
DACEN supplies as a manufacturer rather than a reseller, which changes what a buyer can ask for. Fixtures are engineered against your measured vessel instead of selected from a fixed catalogue; ink and pretreatment routes are validated on your substrate before quotation; and configuration questions - station count, loading method, pretreatment integration, data interfaces - are answered by the engineering team that builds the machine. For distributors and project buyers this also means factory-direct quotation based on model, quantity and packaging, defined spare-part pricing and lead time, and a direct technical escalation path after installation rather than a chain of intermediaries. DACEN supports single-machine purchases for factories entering direct-to-object decoration, multi-unit project supply for manufacturers scaling capacity, and OEM/ODM programmes for buyers who need the machine adapted to their own line layout, branding or electrical standard.
FAQ - Questions Before Choosing a Cylinder Printer
Q: What is the DACEN digital cylinder printer, and what does it actually do?
A: It is an industrial UV LED direct-to-object printer that decorates cylindrical vessels by rotating them against a fixed printhead assembly, producing continuous full-wrap graphics without screen plates or applied labels. It is dedicated equipment for bottles, cups, tumblers and cylindrical packaging rather than a flatbed printer with a rotary accessory, which is why fixture design and vessel geometry are central to every DACEN configuration discussion.
Q: Which products and applications is it suitable for?
A: Typical applications include wine and spirits bottles, beverage and water bottles, stainless-steel tumblers and sports bottles, plastic and acrylic cups, cosmetic bottles and jars, candle glassware and promotional drinkware. Suitability depends on measurable factors - diameter, length, weight, taper, wall thickness and clamping surface - so DACEN assesses your actual vessel rather than assuming a category fits.
Q: Can it print on both straight and tapered bottles?
A: Straight cylindrical vessels are the baseline case. Tapered vessels are printed with artwork compensation matched to the measured cone angle, within a defined taper limit that DACEN states with the specification. Vessels outside that limit, and strongly contoured or handled vessels, are identified during evaluation so you are not left discovering the boundary after installation.
Q: Does glass bottle printing require primer, plasma or corona treatment?
A: It depends on the glass formulation, surface cleanliness, the ink used and the durability standard the finished bottle must meet. Some glass requires a primer or surface activation; some does not. DACEN determines this by testing your actual bottle and then documents the pretreatment route so production repeats the validated process rather than an operator's judgement.
Q: Are competitor benchmark values on this page presented as DACEN data?
A: No. Where a value comes from published competitor material or a general industry range, it is labelled as a benchmark or reference and is not a DACEN specification. Confirmed DACEN data is labelled as such, and any figure still awaiting factory measurement is marked to be verified. If a number matters to your decision, ask for the test method and conditions behind it.
Q: How do I confirm the final specification for my project?
A: Send your vessel dimensions, material and coating, artwork, durability requirement and target daily output. DACEN returns a configuration proposal covering fixture, ink set, pretreatment route, print mode and expected cycle time, and can support it with a printed sample and test report on your own product before you place an order.
Q: Can I request samples, and what should I send?
A: Yes - sample printing on customer-supplied vessels is the recommended first step. Send the actual vessel (ideally several, covering each coating or material variant), the artwork file, the required durability standard and your target output. The more representative the sample, the more reliable the resulting configuration and quotation.
Q: How fast can one bottle be printed?
A: Cycle time depends on vessel size, image dimensions, resolution mode, whether white and varnish are enabled, and whether loading is manual or automated, so a single headline figure would not be comparable between machines. DACEN publishes cycle time together with those conditions and will run your artwork at your target size so the measured figure can be reproduced during a factory test.
Q: How long does it take to change from one product to another?
A: Three cases should be considered separately: a new artwork on the same fixture, a different vessel size using the same fixture family, and a full fixture change. Stored job recipes restore dimensions, print position and curing settings for returning orders. DACEN reports measured times for all three cases so you can estimate real productive hours across your SKU mix.
Q: Do you support OEM/ODM, custom fixtures and production-line integration?
A: Yes. OEM/ODM scope covers custom tooling designed from your vessel drawing or sample, automated load and unload, pretreatment integration, data interfaces for variable-data production, software language and machine appearance. Provide your line layout, electrical standard and target output for an OEM evaluation and lead-time estimate.
Q: What is the MOQ, lead time and packaging arrangement?
A: DACEN supplies from a single unit, with project pricing available for multi-unit and phased orders. Standard lead time, custom fixture lead time and export packing specification are confirmed in the quotation, since they depend on configuration and destination. Export-ready crating for sea or air freight is specified before shipment.
Q: Can you provide datasheets, test reports and certification documents?
A: Datasheets and specification sheets are available for download, and substrate test reports covering adhesion, wash and scratch performance are issued after sample testing on your vessel. Certification documents can be provided where they exist for the machine and target market - DACEN states compliance status factually rather than implying coverage it does not hold.
Q: What information does DACEN need to prepare a quotation?
A: Vessel diameter, length, weight, taper and material or coating; artwork and required print area; target daily or hourly output; durability requirement; destination country and electrical standard; and whether automation, pretreatment integration or OEM branding is required. With those details a factory quote can be prepared against a defined configuration rather than a generic model.
Q: How do I choose the right model or configuration?
A: Start from your production reality rather than the specification sheet: the largest and smallest vessel you must print, your busiest SKU pattern, your required daily output and your durability standard. DACEN maps those four inputs to station count, loading method, ink configuration and fixture scope, and will tell you where a flatbed with a rotary attachment would serve you better.
Test Your Bottle Before You Select the Printer
The most reliable way to evaluate a cylinder printer is to see your own vessel come off it. Send DACEN your bottle, cup or tumbler together with the artwork and the durability standard it must meet, and our printing engineers will evaluate the fixture, pretreatment route, print mode and adhesion result before recommending a configuration. You receive a printed sample and a test report on your own product - not a demonstration piece - so your engineering and quality teams can approve the equipment on evidence rather than on specification claims.
Bottles UV printing machine-Dacen
Bottle UV printer's advantage:
1.Fast speed,as fast as 15sec/bottle
2.CMYKW and varnish can be printed at the same time
3.Easy operation,don't need make mode and repeat tinted,dry immediately
4.Print effect,graphic,embossing,hollow out plane,local,frosted effect
5.Wide application,can be printed on ceramic/glass/wine bottle,thermos bottle,steel cup,pen/food can,conicial cup,shaped cup,etc.
Good stability-the inner circulation directly takes away the bubbles and impurities in the spray chamber to ensure the stability of continuous printing. ØLong nozzle life-the internal circulation self-repairing function greatly reduces the nozzle oblique spray hole blocking and prolongs the nozzle life. Ø Strong ink adaptability-The internal circulation prevents the precipitation of large-particle pigment ink, which can be used in a wider range of ink applications.
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Item |
Parameter |
|
Machine size and dimension |
1812 L *660 W*1820 H mm,300kg |
|
Power |
50HZ AC220/110±>10A Ground wire |
|
Print size |
Height 40-270mm |
|
Print diameter |
diameter 18-120mm (can be customized as required) |
|
Printhead |
RICOH GEN5i |
|
Print head quantity |
3 pcs |
|
Resolution |
900/1200 dpi |
|
Print speed |
Subject to technical agreement |
|
Printing rotation angle |
360° |
|
Max taper drop |
6 Angle |
|
Ink |
UVink |
|
Ink color |
K C M Y W V |
|
RIP software |
RIPPRINT |
|
File format |
JPEG,Tiff,PDF,EPS ect |
|
Curing system |
UV-LEDCuring system |
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