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News Release from: null Encore Machinery | Subject: Pit Stop, MB CAS 38 folder
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 May 2006
Creaser Boosts Digital Print Finishing
Speed
Tangent Communications has installed a high speed Pit Stop digital creaser and perforator and an MB CAS 38 computer-controlled folder from Encore Machinery.
Tangent Communications has installed a high speed Pit Stop digital creaser and perforator and an MB CAS 38 computer-controlled folder from Encore Machinery Fred Davies, finishing manager at Tangent Communications, said: "Virtually everything that we produce on our three Indigo and two Xeikon digital presses needs to be creased and folded
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 14 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Although we had a digital creaser, it was quite slow and it didn't have a perforator.
Consequently it involved two separate processes.
We read about the Pit Stop machine and were impressed by its speed." And he continued: "We are operating it at 8,000sph and it creases and perforate a range of stock from 100gsm to 350gsm, some of which is laminated on both sides." The order for the folder followed six weeks after the machines was first viewed.
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Davies added: "Most of our work has to be turned round within 24 hours and sometimes within the same day.
Folding had become a bit of a bottleneck because we were doing it on our bookletmaker.
We needed a dedicated folder that was fast quick to set up and could handle a wide range of digitally printed stock and a variety of folds." Having already seen the MB folder at Encore's showroom in Dunstable, Davies went back to spend a day testing the machine with a range of jobs.
He said: "We have such a variety of jobs that need to move out of the door very quickly, so anything that could help us was of great interest to us.
That's where the computer-controlled MB CAS 38 scores.
It is so quick and easy to set up using a touch screen and then the folder automatically sets the plates and rollers and there is no time wasted manually adjusting it with pieces of paper.
It means that people an use it with minimal training because it is self-explanatory." Tangent specified a deep pile feeder, which holds approximately 3,000 sheets of paper, depending upon the stock.
And Davies explained: "I think it's a better feeder and it gives us greater productivity because we don't have to keep bending down to fill it up with more paper.
We may well add a cross fold unit and a gluing unit in the not too distant future.
We have a number of jobs which require spot gluing and we do this by hand." He commented that both pieces of equipment are proving to be very reliable but the big of advantage of dealing with Encore is that company, in his opinion, is a good supplier that is always available and its service is good.
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