CTP, Workflow And Screening For Hackney Press

London-based Hackney Press has invested in its first fully automated B2 CTP system from Dainippon Screen in a sale supported by UK distributor Service Offset Supplies (SOS) of Loughton.

London-based Hackney Press has invested in its first fully automated B2 CTP system from Dainippon Screen in a sale supported by UK distributor Service Offset Supplies (SOS) of Loughton.

The company has just successfully installed a thermal Platerite 4300 with single auto plate loader (SA-L4300) and Trueflow workflow software plus an Epson 10600 colour proofer.

Screen's SPEKTA hybrid halftone screening technology has also proved vital to managing the design needs of Hackney Press's wide-ranging client list.

An independent sheet-fed printer with full digital origination, single and multi-colour presses and fast efficient finishing equipment serving companies throughout the UK and Europe, Hackney Press required a fully-automated B2 platesetter and workflow, a formula matched by the Screen Platerite 4300 with Trueflow.

Glen Silvey, pre-press manager for Hackney Press, researched the CTP market thoroughly and commented: "Screen and SOS put together the most cost-effective sales and service package and the browser-based design of Trueflow gives us more flexibility as we can manage workflow from any workstation without installing licensed copies on every machine." This is important because Hackney Press prides itself on the way it manages workflow, explained Silvey: "We professionally manage all aspects of the job from conception to delivery and make it a rule not to accept orders that we knowingly wouldn't be able to complete successfully." Hackney Press is also successfully using Dainippon Screen's SPEKTA hybrid halftone screening technology and finds it meets the most demanding requirements, said production director Bill Clarke.

"We are using SPEKTA screening a great deal and have been impressed with the results both in terms of quality and economies of ink use," he said.

Clarke explained that Hackney Press is a commercial printer with a wide range of work so SPEKTA is used on a variety of different jobs.

"There is a definite advantage on work where we would have encountered moir? previously.

For example, we produce top-quality clothing catalogues with detailed pictures of patterned fabrics and checks - SPEKTA is perfect for those kinds of jobs.

It also helps us handle the more complicated images that are sometimes the result of adventurous creative people experimenting with the newer, more powerful software packages.

It's not that customers tend to notice the excellent screening in particular, it's just that there are zero complaints and the job goes smoothly," he observed.

Hackney Press produces a wide spectrum of printed material from quality business stationery to advertising literature on multi-colour presses in formats up to B2.

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