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Through using these finishing processes, we showed that<br />
digital printing can be successfully creased, folded and<br />
trimmed without cracking, providing printers with a high quality<br />
finished product.<br />
KMSA received the artwork from CHOC, which was supplied<br />
in PDF and Adobe Illustrator formats. We used imposition<br />
software to create templates for the business cards, DL flyers<br />
and letterheads, which were then set up according to the<br />
finishing machinery from IPEX – a Morgana Digi Fold Pro<br />
(creaser and folder) and Morgana Card Plus business card<br />
cutter with two different blade sets to accommodate not only<br />
business cards but the DL flyers as well. IPEX also used a<br />
programmable guillotine machine to trim the letterheads,<br />
posters and brochures with ease and efficiency.<br />
All of the colour machines were calibrated and FOGRA<br />
certified to maintain colour consistency during the three days<br />
and to verify if any colour fluctuation had taken place during<br />
the show and to what degree. This is because the environment<br />
at the show is far from ideal and solutions like this can<br />
minimise time correcting colour and wastage. With our colour<br />
management solution, colour consistency day to day and<br />
month to month is possible, taking the guess work out of colour<br />
manipulation and correction. It is also possible to obtain<br />
uniformed colour across different printing processes, from wide<br />
format to digital and even litho. We are happy to report that all<br />
of the machines were consistent in productivity and colour,<br />
both during the runs and day after day.”<br />
Desré Murray, CHOC business development manager, states<br />
that a contribution of this nature is significant and adds<br />
immeasurable value to an organisation like CHOC.<br />
“KMSA’s generous contribution was very well timed, as we had<br />
run out of our brochures and did not have the budget to have<br />
them printed. CHOC is very grateful for this donation and<br />
believe that the high quality prints will serve us well far into the<br />
future,” says Murray.<br />
CHOC was in great need of<br />
marketing collateral and we<br />
felt that this would be a very<br />
valuable project with which<br />
to assist.<br />
<strong>Konica</strong> <strong>Minolta</strong> South Africa also printed 3,125 black & white<br />
booklets on 12,500 sheets for the Dullstroom Birds of Prey and<br />
Rehabilitation Centre on the brand new B951 and B1250<br />
machines. In total, the company printed more than 37,000 A4<br />
images during its production hour at the 2012 Africa Print.<br />
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