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PRINT The Baldwin Jetstream system removes dust and debris from the paper web before it enters the first printing tower moving into the semi-commercial market are to upgrade an existing press line with either drying or UV curing facilities on one or more towers,” says Andy Latham, national sales manager at manroland in the UK. “Each has their own issues. Converting a tower to print UV inks is starting to take off in Europe and will probably become more popular in the future. “UV inks are currently three to four times more expensive than conventional inks but the cost of installing and running UV curing facilities is less than that of a gas drying 56 N&M NEWSPAPER&MAGAZINES 1/2008 oven. o Changing the converted tower between w UV and conventional printing generally r takes around an hour and for this reason a a tower with a UV curing system tends to be dedicated to printing UV inks. “A “ UV unit requires less space than a gas drying d oven, which normally needs about four metres of height above the top of the tower and will be around 13 metres in le ength. There are many other points to consider. c For example, if a printer takes the UV U route then he will have to eliminate any daylight d reaching the tower and fit specially filtered fi glass, while a gas oven will require after a burners to dispose of the hot air correctly r and chilling facilities before the next tower,” says Andy Latham. Upgrading a tower is about half the cost of buying a new one and hybrid towers that allow high quality printing of 60 gsm LWC stock are becoming increasingly common throughout Europe. A four-high tower on a double width press such as the Colorman would enable a 32-page tabloid section to be printed on LWC paper as part of the normal production of the newspaper. Blurring boundaries John Chambers is sales director for Goss International in the UK and Ireland. “There is no doubt that the traditional boundaries between newspaper printers and the commercial web offset sector are blurring,” he says. “Developments in the technologies surrounding newspaper production allow the conventional newspaper printer to install equipment within their factory that enables the production of semi-commercial work. “At the same time the financial pressure to keep presses running is greater than ever. This has made many regional and national newspaper groups look at ways of generating additional revenues by bringing supplements and other similar work in-house that had previously gone out to the trade. This has obviously hurt the commercial web offset sector, which has seen some major print contracts disappear in recent years. The trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, since the utilisation of newspaper presses is traditionally quite low compared to commercial presses. “With advertising revenues down virtually everywhere and advertisers increasingly being targeted by other media such as the Internet, newspaper printers have to find ways to fight back. One answer is to improve the overall quality or appearance of their products. Printers with coldest presses have limited opportunities for improving the quality or appearance of their publications and are often restricted to changing format/size and/or incorporating stitching facilities. This will not overcome The Ferag equipment at Mortons of Horncastle has transformed the way the newspaper handles semi-commercial work
the print quality issues that are inherent with a coldset press, however, it can often be an effective way of improving the overall appearance of the final product,” says John Chambers. “A growing number of newspaper printers are showing an increased interest in heatset printing. Typically, two towers installed with heatset capability on a double width press can provide the capacity to produce an 80-page supplement in full colour at a much improved quality than is possible with coldset. This application has the potential to attract advertisers across a range of sectors including property, motoring and travel. PRINT Competitive edge through flexibility and top quality RETURN PRODUCT SYSTEM (RPS) �� ith the introduction of our new and advanced high-speed inserter the NewsStar, odel A 1055, we are ready and able to meet the toughest and most efficiencyequiring inserting demands in the market. At this year’s Ifra Expo, we will proudly resent our high-speed inserter at work in the production environment of eitungsverlag Schwerin GmbH & Co. KG (ZVS). The NewsStar A 1055 inserter s equipped with a new and advanced high-speed feeder system, the improved onstruction of which will also be demonstrated at Ifra Expo 2008. his year’s Ifra Expo Schur Packaging Systems launches a complete solution for ystematic handling of returned products. The Return Product System (RPS) has throughput of up to 20,000 copies per hour. It allows publishers to automatically rocess the mix of unsold products and can be used to track all kinds of products, egardless of size, format, weight or quantity. lease feel free to contact us: azu@schur.com “Goss has developed a number of unique technologies that enables the printer to change from coldset to heatset and back again with the minimum press downtime and waste. At Goss we are certainly seeing more enquires from newspaper printers who are keen to upgrade their coldset presses with heatset facilities. In an increasingly competitive environment, where print will be subject to ever more pressure from new media, it is essential that the printers of tomorrow are equipped to deal with the growing demands being placed on them both from advertisers and customers.” Come and meet us at this year‘s Ifra Expo, stand 8340 in Hall 8! Schur Packaging Systems a/s · Fuglevangsvej 41 · 8700 Horsens · Denmark · Tel. +45 79 28 28 28 · Fax +45 79 28 29 30 · www.schur.com
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