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INNOVATIONS & INVESTMENTS First Inca Onset S40 goes to Kolorcraft after beta KOLORCRAFT, OSSETT, has become the first customer for Inca’s latest Onset flatbed inkjet press. Following several months of beta testing the company is now the first user of the Onset S40, a 400sq metres/hr version of the six-colour UV press. The £1 million investment was funded through an asset package put together by Lombard, part of RBS. The Inca press was supplied by Fuji Sericol. The flatbed inkjet boosts capacity at the £25 million turnover business. It will run alongside a six-colour KBA Rapida 162a installed little more than two years ago. “When compared to raising £2 million for our large format litho investment, this asset funding exercise offered many more challenges. It takes courage and confidence to invest in new technology, especially in the current marketplace, but Lombard was fully supportive and receptive to our needs and the needs of our customers,” says finance director Steve Stothart. Kolorcraft specialises in retail display work offering screen and B1 litho printing as well as large format digital and 10 May 2011 www.printbusinessmagazine.co.uk Martin Hampshaw says success means working smarter. litho. It is a highly competitive sector says sales and marketing director Martin Hampshaw. “To be successful we have to work smarter, use the latest technology to improve quality, make efficiencies and reduce costs. “The flexibility and quality of the Onset S40 is already helping us deliver new products to our customers and enabled us to open new markets. We recently produced large format fashion graphics for one client which featured 30 different image changes. Using conventional technology, this would have involved producing 120 large format plates and considerable makeready times. The Onset’s direct to print ability enabled us to bring forward the in-store date and deliver cost savings back to our client.” The company runs round the clock and employs 250 in a 180,000 sq ft facility in West Yorkshire. “Our strategy is to do more of what we do well to grow the business,” says Kolorcraft managing director Phil Findley. Ahead of the purchase, the company carried out a thorough investigation into what else was available on the market, deciding that the combination of Inca technology and Fuji ink and support offered the best combination. “This plus the quality, productivity and flexibility of the machine were all decision factors behind the investment,” he continues. “Not only has the Onset significantly increased our production capacity, but it has also enabled us to offer competitive new products and compete in new sectors.” The Onset prints at 600dpi at 400sq metres and hour. This equates to 94 full bed sheets, aided by automated handling systems for loading and removing sheets. Kensett installs MBO folder from Freidheim ordered at Ipex SUSSEX TRADE BINDER Kensett has commissioned an MBO K800.2/4 S-KTL folder from Friedheim International, which it ordered at Ipex last year. The latest folder marks a return to MBO and comes with a Palamides stacking delivery system. “It’s going to help prevent bottlenecks in the production process,” says managing director James Wheeler. “Already we have found that we are in a position to handle up to twice the amount of work as previously – depending of course on the nature of the jobs involved.” The family owned business operates from Hove and in tandem with K+L Laminators located a few hundred metres away. Combined, says Wheeler, this adds up to a one-stop shop, with minimal transportation between the processes that may be needed to complete a job. “It’s all about trying to diversify, installing the right equipment to do jobs quicker and better and offer that little bit extra service and support to help customers as much as possible,” he adds. The investment in the highly automated folder fits this strategy as did the Muller Martini Acora perfect binder that the company had installed two years ago. l BENSON GATESHEAD has taken delivery of the first of two Bobst Masterfolds that the company bought at Ipex last year. The installations follow investment in press and die cutting areas, creating a bottleneck at the folder-gluer stage. Andrew Pybus, operations manager at Benson Gateshead, says: “The folder-gluers at the plant were some of the oldest in the group and the strategy behind ordering the new Bobst Masterfold lines was to balance capacity at Gateshead.” Bobst provided an audit of the plant’s requirements which underpinned the decision to replace four ageing Bobst Alpina lines with the two new Masterfolds. The model specified is the 75 A1. This is the highest speed folder-gluer in the range, running up to 700 metres/minute. l IPSWICH PRINTER HEALEYS has taken delivery of a Horizon HT30 three sided trimmer in order to reduce pressure on its guillotine operators. Philip Dodd, managing director, says: “We had three guillotines but only had two guillotine operators. So we calculated that it would be more economical to sell one of the guillotines if we could find an efficient way of trimming the books coming off our Horizon BQ470 perfect binder that wouldn’t impact the other guillotining work.” The company was one of the first in the UK to install the BQ470 four clamp perfect binder. The trimmer can be wheeled into place on the binder when required, saving the process step of loading bound books into the guillotine. There is a 20 settings memory and it can handle 500 books an hour from a deep pile feeder. The HT30 was supplied by Intelligent Finishing Systems. l PROOF THAT NOT EVERY printer has converted to direct imaged plates comes with recent platesetter installations. At The Practical Printer in Leicester a Highwater CTP Cron TP36 platsetter has replaced an imagesetter and printing down frame arrangement. The thermal platesetter is loaded with Kodak Thermal Direct plates and controlled through a Studio Rip workflow edition. Neil Womersley, managing director, has already noticed the benefit. “We recently had to produce 50 plates for a booklet that we were printing. It took us just two hours. Using our previous equipment that would have taken at least two days,” he says.
Visit us at Northprint Hall M, , Stand M216 www.northprin www.northprintexpo.com/presstek ntexpo.com/pressteek INNOVATIONS & INVESTMENTS Kolbus launches KM200 perfect binder at DigiMedia exhibition KOLBUS USED the DigiMedia exhibition to launch the KM200, a perfect binder for digital print applications. This is a fully automated perfect binder using the technology that Kolbus uses for its high volume machines, but including automated set up systems to cope with varying thicknesses of product. “Provided the format is not changed, every product can be different,” says Kolbus UK managing director Robert Flather. “The machine offers zero makeready, adjusting automatically to the different product sizes.” As configured at the exhibition, a gathered book block is measured for width before feeding into binder. The Thinking of moving to processless plates? Aurora plates deliver high reliability and performance �� The Kolbus KM200 is a perfect binder for digital print applications. Kolbus swinging arm clamps are designed to approach the block on a parallel path to lock the book into position and coping with thicknesses from 5- 60mm. Once clamped a more precise measurement of book thickness is taken, details of which are used to set the cover feeder and side glue nozzle position. There is no need to adjust spine preparation or the spine glueing section because this uses an open tank system rather than nozzle applicators. All adjustable elements are based around movements outwards from a centre line position, calculated from measuring the clamped book. Thus the scoring wheels for the cover are moved away from the centre line into a precise position to suit that book. Each subsequent book can have a different thickness. Cameras can be used to ensure that covers match the body of the book before feeding. After the cover is in place, the pressing unit will also selfadjust around the centre line of the book. The speed of the binder will be dependent on the number of different sizes handled. Without adjustments, the line will run at some 5,000cph. “Until now people have had to live with four clamp binders which becomes a struggle with higher volumes,” says Flather. “This is book binding that delivers a quality product.” By Drupa next year Kolbus will have linked the binding unit to upstream systems, either directly to gathering lines, to digital presses or via technology to create book blocks from webfed digital print.
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