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News Release from: null Encore Machinery | Subject: MB CAS 52
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 January 2005
B2 Folder Enables Complex Jobs Growth
Priory Press, commercial printers in Dunstable, has traded in its old folder for a new MB CAS 52 computer-controlled B2 folder from Encore Machinery.
Priory Press, commercial printers in Dunstable, has traded in its old folder for a new MB CAS 52 computer-controlled B2 folder from Encore Machinery "We were limited with our previous folder to standard folds, which meant that we had to turn away complex but profitable folding jobs
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 19 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Although they were relatively few and far between, we wanted to spread our wings and build up this side of our finishing business," said Jason Brinkley, production manager at Priory Press.
"We know Encore because they are on the same industrial estate as us and Mike Biggs, their managing director, sold us the previous folder about 10 years ago.
After the demonstration, we were sold on the machine.
The computer set up makes life so much easier.
All we have to do is follow the instructions on the display screen, choose the fold we require and the fold plates are automatically set.
It has reduced make ready to a fraction of the time.
It also gives us much more versatility because, although it has four plates like the old folder, we can move the second cross fold unit in line, which will give us up to eight folds," he added.
It was the facility to store the settings for jobs in the memory that has made a difference in the finishing department.
Now, Brinckley looks back and does not know how the company managed without the new machine, he commented.
"We get quite a lot of repeat jobs, both from end user customers and the trade and now we don't have to waste time resetting them.
It also gives us a lot more flexibility because we can lift jobs part way through if there is something really urgent.
Those features have saved us a lot of time and together with the speed of the folder itself, we have more than doubled our productivity.
That makes a big difference on long runs.
We typically run the machine at between 20,000-25,000 copies an hour with one operator but it will go a lot faster depending on the stock," he continued.
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