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News Release from: null Encore Machinery | Subject: MB CAS 38 folder
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 July 2005
40% Folding Capacity Boost With
Computerised Kit
Southdown Print Finishers in Eastbourne (UK) has increased the productivity on its folding machine by 40 per cent since it installed a computerised MB CAS 38 folder from Encore Machinery.
Southdown Print Finishers in Eastbourne (UK) has increased the productivity on its folding machine by 40 per cent since it installed a computerised MB CAS 38 folder from Encore Machinery Matthew Curtis, who runs Southdown with his mother, commented: "We had known Mike Biggs and the team at Encore for several years because our previous folder was also an MB but it didn't have computerisation
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 25 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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As the business has expanded we needed to increase the productivity in our folding department.
We went back to Encore who recommended the MB CAS 38 and traded out our old machine." He said that the difference between machines has been dramatic.
As well as being much faster to set up, the new system is much easier to operate.
Curtis continued: "All we have to do is feed in the size of the job and the type of fold we require and the folder sets the rollers and plates accordingly.
There is no manual intervention needed at all.
This is ideal for us because we are never sure what jobs we will be getting next - there is such a variety of formats and folds.
One thing is for sure, being at the end of the line, the pressure is on to turn the jobs around as fast as possible, particularly with digital print, which is a fast growing part of our business.
The new folder has anti-static bars and this makes it much easier to fold digital print or photocopied jobs." The other advantage of the computerised MB is the facility to store jobs settings in the memory.
Southdown gets quite a lot of repeat jobs, which come in regularly on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis.
The company also sometimes get part of a job at the beginning of the week and the rest of it comes a few days later.
"Now all we have to do is save the settings and we don't have to worry.
It save a lot of set-up time and is ideal for our type of business," added Curtis.
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