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News Release from: null Encore Machinery | Subject: Pitstop creaser and perforating machine
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 June 2005
Creaser Designed For Digital Bought by
Litho Shop
Printwell (UK) has purchased a top of the range, fully automated Pitstop creaser and perforating machine from Encore Machinery.
Printwell (UK) has purchased a top of the range, fully automated Pitstop creaser and perforating machine from Encore Machinery Unlike the majority of Pitstop customers, who are digital printers, Printwell had a requirement to crease, perf and microperf litho printed material
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 14 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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A lot of the production is short run and Printwell hold stocks of letterheads, forms, business cards and menus, for instance, for immediate call off or for over printing.
Chris Down, the production manager at Printwell, said: "We had a small creaser but it couldn't do the larger format creasing and perfing.
Consequently a lot of work was going to outside finishers.
When I joined the company last year, one of the objectives was to be self-sufficient and that has meant investing in new equipment.
We needed a heavy duty creaser, which could handle both SRA3 and SRA2 stock.
It will become even more invaluable in August when we install a five colour Heidelberg press." Printwell evaluated the Pitstop alongside a competitive machine, he added.
"As well as being the fastest on the market at 8,000 sheets an hour, it was the most robust.
I knew that it was going to get heavy use and I didn't want to buy a machine that we were going to have to replace in about three years because it was worn out," pointed out Down.
He added: "We are able to run a wide range of stocks through the Pitstop from 80gsm to 350gsm.
It's quick to set up and if we want to use the perfing unit, it only takes a minute or so to change over.
What's impressed us the most is the quality of the crease.
Unlike our previous machine, this new generation of Pitstop suction creasers uses a CAM and pulsed motor rather than a solenoid action.".
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