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News Release from: Goss International | Subject: Double-width 560mm cut-off Uniliner press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 February 2007
Shaftless Goss Press To Increase
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Unipress of Granja, near Porto, in Northern Portugal, has placed an order with Goss International for a shaftless double-width 560mm cut-off Uniliner press.
Unipress of Granja, near Porto, in Northern Portugal, has placed an order with Goss International for a shaftless double-width 560mm cut-off Uniliner press The press has been ordered to provide the additional colour capacity and pagination required for the publisher's stable of newspaper products and it will be the first Uniliner press in the world designed to run at a maximum speed of 80,000 copies per hour (cph)
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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According to Goss, the new Uniliner press will be highly specified with the latest in newspaper technologies and will include Goss Digirail digital inking, automated colour and cut-off register controls and automatic web-width change.
Those features will enable the publisher to use any web-width between 1,300mm and 1,600mm to offer maximum flexibility and minimum start-up times.
Antonio Costa, general manager at Unipress, commented: "Our decision to invest in a new press was based on the need to offer our clients the best printing quality in full colour, whilst increasing our efficiencies through advanced levels of automation.
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After investigating all suitable alternatives we made our decision based on the flexibility of the Uniliner press.
The ability to change our web-widths automatically, provides us with fast and efficient change-over of products with minimal down time.
In the publishing world every second counts so this will ensure that we offer our customers the best possible service." Unipress has been using a Goss Universal 45 press for several years and will continue to do so once the new Uniliner press has been installed.
Costa explained: "As an existing Goss press user we were keen to extend our relationship with Goss International.
The Uniliner is not a replacement of our Universal press but an extension to our current capacity.
We are finding that we frequently require greater and greater colour capacity so the two presses will work together to produce our various titles including leading titles Publico and the sports paper, A Bola." The new 80,000cph Uniliner press will be configured as two four-high towers and two reelstands, and the units will be installed at 90 degrees to the press line to cope with space limitations at the facility.
The order also includes a 2:5:5 jaw folder, ink pre-setting from the RIP and automatic web-width change.
The new press will be capable of producing 64 full-colour tabloid pages in collect mode - a 200 per cent increase in colour capacity over the publisher's existing press line, said Goss.
Costa continued: "From our point of view, the active role played by Goss International's agent for Portugal, Tecnimprensa, during the press lifetime is also key to this order.
We are happy to work with the company to benefit from its experience in aiding the smooth operation of our presses." Duarte Alves de Sousa, executive partner of Tecnimprensa, said: "We are very proud to be selected in such a challenging and demanding project.
Unipress was looking for an all-in-one press which would bring it the highest level of printing quality, flexibility, productivity and cost-efficiency.
Goss International has understood its needs exactly and was able to present an unbeatable tailor made system that will set a new standard in the Portuguese newspaper printing industry." Eric Normand, senior vice president and general manager at Goss International in Nantes (France) where the press will be manufactured, commented: "This is the first sale of the Goss Uniliner press in Portugal and the first in the world that will run at 80,000cph.
As such, this is a key investment in the Portuguese newspaper market.
The new press will provide Unipress with a very high level of flexibility, which will equip it well in the competitive marketplace by affording it the ability to adapt to developing market trends." The new press is due to be installed during this spring.
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