AB Dick Offers Titan Press in USA

AB Dick is now offering its Titan series of four-colour landscape offset presses in the USA.

A.B.Dick is now offering its Titan series of four-colour landscape offset presses in the USA.

The series consists of four, fully featured presses, including the 8202A and 8202A-I two-tower presses and the 8204A and 8204A-I four-tower models.

Combined with the 4995A-ICS press, the Titan series gives small to medium sized format printers more affordable and productive four-colour options than before.

The company first successfully introduced these presses to the Latin American market a year ago.

The 8202A-I and 8204A-I models offer the AB Dick's ink control system, which is said to improve productivity by automating the ink fountain setting controls.

It reduces set-up time while providing consistent ink balance and colour repeatability, claimed the company.

"The situation for any small to mid-size printer has improved because the options for doing four-colour work are now immensely better," said Scott MacKenzie, AB Dick vice president of marketing.

"The Titan series presents, along with our dynamic 4995A-ICS four-colour press.

Any shop can take their business to another level with one of these presses.

If they add a product from our DPM (Digital Platemaster line), the sky is the limit for printers with complete digital systems," he added.

Each series press has a 16-roller inking system, including three form rollers, to deliver exceptional print quality for every solid, screen and halftone.

A five-roller continuous motorised dampening system comes with a chiller-recirculator.

With a maximum print size of 20.47" x 14.37" (520mm x 365mm), each press also offers a semi-automatic blanket cleaner that washes and dries to save time.

There are operator-friendly controls for automatic sequencing and push button operation.

A streamfeeder allows for accurate registration and a wider variety of paper stocks to be run, and a pre-piling feature lets an operator load paper while the press is running.

The Easy Plate Setting (EPS) system allows for quick and accurate metal or polyester plate mounting with no tools, so an operator can greatly reduce make-ready time by hanging a plate in less than one minute.

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