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News Release from: Graphic Arts Equipment | Subject: Horizon VAC-Turbo Powercollator with SPF-200A
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 August 2007
Collators Help Printer Maintain Green
Ethos
To meet its environmental code, Greenhouse Graphics has installed a Horizon VAC-Turbo Powercollator with SPF-200A.
The system supplied by Graphic Arts Equipment (GAE) includes two 10-station tower collators that are claimed to collate 10,000 sets per hour and 4,000 books per hour and a FC200A fore-edge heavy-duty in-line stitch-fold and trimmer The Basingstoke (UK) short-run magazine specialist is guided by its own Ecoprint-System4, which is a series of environmental initiatives covering such issues as VOC emissions, energy usage, chemical usage, recycling and waste reduction
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 16 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company's clients include local community magazines, football clubs and charities, such as St John's Ambulance.
Greenhouse Graphics' managing director Ian Crossley explained: "A lot of the magazines we print do like the eco-friendly aspect of our business.
When we look for equipment we assess its impact and how it will help us conform to our internal standards." He added: "We compared eco friendliness, speed of jobs, set-up and wastage.
We also took in to account energy usage and GAE's equipment was the best choice." Greenhouse Graphics has a lot of short-run magazine work so it needs to be able to change jobs quickly.
Crossley explained: "It is also good to be able to take work off halfway through a run, put another job on and then go back to finishing off the first job.
The greater flexibility is one of the strengths of the machine." The company produces runs of 1,000 to 5,000 and the speed of the machine has doubled throughput, said GAE.
In the past where Greenhouse Graphics would have had overtime, it has meant it is not needed.
The company can also take more jobs on that it would previously have had to decline.
As for choosing GAE, Crossley said: "We looked at other machines but at the end of the day we felt the GAE equipment was more robust and that tipped the balance.
We needed to feel that it was going to last.".
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