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News Release from: Baldwin Technology Company Inc | Subject: World spray bars
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 December 2007
Spray Bars Cut Waste And Raise Press
Consistency
With the aim of improving waste levels and the consistency of its Solna D400 press, Furness Newspapers is to install Baldwin's World spray bars.
The 48 World spray bars will be delivered to the Barrow-in-Furness (UK) site this month and will replace another manufacturer's spray dampening system, which was fitted to the Solna when the press was installed in 2002 Operations manager at Furness Newspaper, Guy Forester, explained: "We needed to improve the quality and consistency of spray dampening on the Solna D400 and to reduce the amount of dampening solution being applied
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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I had dealt with Baldwin whilst working at previous newspaper plants and always had a high regard for its equipment and service." He continued: "When I contacted the company I discovered that Baldwin had replaced identical spray bars with its World system on a Solna D400 at a newspaper printer in Latvia.
It was exactly the change that we were thinking of making and so we travelled to Latvia to speak to the printer and see the results for ourselves.
Even though the newspaper had only been running the World spray bars for about six weeks it was so delighted with the outcome that we were convinced there and then that this was the right decision." He said that a key factor in Furness Newspapers' decision to buy the Baldwin system, was Baldwin's Constant C, which is claimed to maintain clear and unblocked nozzles throughout the print run.
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Forester added that it was obvious by examining the spray bars at the Latvian site that Contact C kept dirt and ink fly out of the nozzles, which is an continuing problem for any spray dampening system, including the system that is to be replaced.
John Leek heads the UK operation for Baldwin and he commented: "We have been involved in the design, manufacture and installation of spray dampening systems for more than 30 years, which has placed the company in a unique position in respect to this technology.
We are increasingly being called upon to replace systems that have either been fitted at the time of the press installation or at a later date.
This is generally a straight forward process, which we carry out to suit press production schedules, keeping any disruption to the absolute minimum." Titles printed on the Solna D400 by Furness Newspapers include its own North West Evening Mail, which has a circulation of 21,000 and The Advertiser (42,000).
However, the company also produces a range of other weekly and monthly titles on a contract print basis, which range from supplement work, to high quality quarter fold publications with varying template sizes.
The six four-high tower Solna press can produce a product range from 4pp - 48pp tabloid pages in colour in one pass, although Ferag drum inserting equipment at the site enables that figure to be increased.
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