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News Release from: Graphic Arts Equipment | Subject: Perfecta 76UC guillotine
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 March 2008
Computer-Controlled Guillotine's Fast
Change-Overs
When Hurricane Press needed a high-quality guillotine to replace older equipment it chose a Perfecta 76UC.
Graphic Arts Equipment (GAE) which gas its offices and showroom not far from Hurricane Press in Perivale, Middlesex (UK) supplied the Perfecta, which was selected after the London jobbing printer saw the guillotine in operation at an open day staged by GAE Hurricane Press managing director, Eddie Roberts, who established the firm 20 years ago from his garage, explained: "Our old guillotine needed replacing so when GAE held the open day I popped in and ran a job
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 7 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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It was exactly what we were looking for.
I have been to GAE before so I know the company and trust the equipment it supplies." He continued: "The Perfecta76UC did a great job and was very well-priced compared to other machines.
We looked at the Polar but the Perfecta was more convincing." The Perfecta 76UC is a computer-controlled guillotine that is claimed to provide fast job change-overs and high-quality output.
Its features include menu-prompted programming, the ability to store up to 6,000 cut positions within a 250-job memory , odd and even repeating and block repeating up to three loops.
It also has a cut counter for repeat functions, clamping without cutting and inserting and deleting of programme steps.
Roberts added: "It was easy to use with the touchscreen that is very simple to use and we got to grips with it very quickly.
We didn't have the touchscreen on the previous machine.
I can even run it if I have to." And he commented: "The quality of the Perfecta is much better than the old machine and it runs a lot quicker meaning we can complete more jobs when we are busy.".
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