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News Release from: null Encore Machinery | Subject: Pitstop creaser
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 May 2005
Auto Creaser And Perfer Steps Up Quality
Levels
A fully automated standard Pitstop creaser, which operates at 3600 sheets an hour, and a perforator from Encore Machinery, which has replaced a hand operated machine at Autoprint in Harwich (UK).
A fully automated standard Pitstop creaser, which operates at 3600 sheets an hour, and a perforator from Encore Machinery, which has replaced a hand operated machine at Autoprint in Harwich (UK) "Creasing and perfing has now become quite an important part of our business whereas in the past it was fairly infrequent," explained Edward Pitham, the senior partner of the family firm of commercial printers
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 15 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We were doing short runs of between 50 and 350 sheets but now it is not unusual for us to crease a 15,000 run.
It's not just digital jobs that need creasing, we are also asked to do a lot of card work, particularly for direct mail and calendars," added Pitham.
Autoprint has several Sakurai and AB Dick presses along with a Xerox Docucolour digital press and Pitham explained that the firm never know what jobs are coming through the door but that when they arrive, they are all urgent.
Because of that the company needed to be equipped to handle them.
Pitham commented: "We tend to use our rotary scorer more for perfing because it doesn't give us the quality crease that we can achieve from a platen machine like the Pitstop.
We looked at other creasers but the Pitstop was by far the best in our opinion and Encore has been very pro-active.
We bought it with the perfing tool and that has come in very handy because one of the first jobs was three of an A4 format with a perf in the last sheet.
It would have been impossible to do on our rotary machine.
If we carry on expanding this side of our business, we will certainly trade this machine in quite quickly for the high speed version, which operates at 8,000 an hour.".
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