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News Release from: Encore Machinery | Subject: Pit Stop creaser
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 May 2008
Solving Creasing And Folding Problems On
Cards
After struggling to crease and fold litho printed gallery cards and invitations Healeys Printers bought a Pit Stop creaser from Encore Machinery.
After struggling to crease and fold litho printed gallery cards and invitations Healeys Printers bought a Pit Stop creaser from Encore Machinery The colour and fine art B3 printer in Ipswich was considering a Pit Stop creaser when it acquired another printing firm in the town, Red Ink and integrated the businesses under one roof
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 4 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Red Ink already had a Pit Stop creaser with an on-line small format SRA3 MB 35 folder but it was a smaller two plate folder that could only fold up to 250gsm.
As most of Healeys' work is 350gsm thick the company went back to Encore, which recommended the heavy duty, four plate, B3 format MB38 folder.
Working on-line with the Pitstop machine, Healeys can crease and fold at a claimed 8,000 sheets per hour.
Philip Dodd, Healeys' managing director, said: "Most of our jobs are short run, up to 2,000 copies and it was taking us half an hour to set up the Platen creaser and another hour to run them.
Then our finishing staff folded them by hand.
It was an endless task, particularly as we needed to turn them round quite quickly." Mike Biggs, Encore Machinery's managing director, commented: "We've been asked by our digital and offset customers to develop an on-line creasing and folding system for higher volume, faster turn-round applications using heavier duty stock up to 350gsm.
The on-line system is supplied with an over 900mm long register table and with the optional feed extension on the Pit Stop it is possible to crease and fold a six-page A4 landscape sheet.
A pulsed delivery table is also standard on the MB38 fold unit." Healeys has an eight colour Heidelberg Speedmaster 52 press and four other presses and operates double day shifts.
Dodd explained: "We do a lot of creasing and folding.
The Pit Stop is so quick and easy to set up that we can crease and fold a job in next to no time.
The upgrade to the MB 38 folder was an excellent investment because there is a huge difference between its performance and the MB 35.
We also run it as a stand alone folder and it works beautifully." He added: "Our strategy for this year is to increase the number of gallery cards we print and finish and to focus on web ordering.
We couldn't do either without the right equipment and this is where the MB equipment will prove so useful.
We expect the folder to have paid for itself within two years.".
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