Throughput Boost From New Print Finishing

When Danscot Print in Perth (Scotland) relocated to new out of town premises it decided the time was right to upgrade its finishing department.

When Danscot Print in Perth (Scotland) relocated to new out of town premises it decided the time was right to upgrade its finishing department.

Dansot Print chose new Horizon and Perfecta equipment supplied by Graphic Arts Equipment (GAE).

The GBP2m annual turnover group took the opportunity to boost the print division's bindery with the addition of a Perfecta 76 guillotine, a 10-station tower Vac 100 Powercollator with SPF/FC20A automatic book production line that is said to collate 10,000 sets per hour and finish 4,000 books per hour.

At the same time it bought a Ryobi 522 two-colour press.

Managing director of Danscot Print, Mary Doig, explained: "The investment coincided with the move, which gave us more space for the new equipment.

The new layout meant an improvement in throughput and has increased productivity.

Together with the new press this has meant an increase in the amount of work we are doing now." As for the collator, she added: "For us the purchase was an upgrade of the equipment we had been using for several years.

We are now working with suction feed rather than friction feed, which is perfect for the increase in colour litho work we are doing.

Work is going through it faster." The company's printer, George Goodbrand, added: "With the friction feed model before we were not able to run gloss paper and any glossy booklet we had needed to be handfed.

But the new Horizon can do all that.

We are doing more gloss paper work now as a result and we are also putting a lot more work through it as it is a much faster machine." Danscot has been using GAE machinery since it saw some equipment on a stand at Ipex in the 1980s.

Doig explained: "We did look at other equipment manufacturers in the marketplace but we decided to go with some we knew already.

The fact that we had been operating that range of collating equipment for a few years gave us a little bit more confidence in GAE rather than going elsewhere." The Danscot commercial printing moved from 1,500 square foot town centre premises to a new 12,000 square foot site that also houses its company's wholesale cash and carry for stationery and office furniture supplies.

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