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News Release from: Goss International | Subject: 2 x 8 Sunday 3000/32 web press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 August 2007
Publication Print To Benefit From 4-Unit
Web Press
Short to medium print run publication production is set to benefit from the installation at Schumann Printers of a Goss 2 x 8 Sunday 3000/32 web press.
Schumann Printers, which prints 300 magazine titles, will install the new four-unit press at its Fall River, Wisconsin (USA) facility in December The Sunday 3000/32 press will include a Goss Contiweb FD flying paster, Ecocool dryer with integrated chill rolls and a PFF-3 pinless former folder
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The eight-pages-across press was introduced in 2003, with gapless blanket technology providing the cylinder stability for high-quality, high-speed printing with the wider, single-circumference format, said Goss.
Sunday 3000/32 presses are claimed to print at up to 100,000 impressions per hour, producing as many as 3.2 million magazine pages per hour in a single-web configuration.
Goss International also completed an enhancement of an M-1000 press for Schumann Printers earlier this year and the company installed a Goss Pacesetter saddlestitcher in July.
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The M-1000 press project followed an audit by Goss and included inker and control improvements, as well as the addition of a UV coater.
The press is now used primarily for printing publication covers.
Schumann said the company brought the M-1000 press up to the same pre-setting standards as the new Sunday 3000/32 press to match the digital workflows its customers rely on and to hold make-ready averages to under 10 minutes and 1,500 impressions.
The Pacesetter saddlestitcher will be equipped for selective binding and ink-jet personalisation.
Schumann Printers provides finishing capabilities, including co-mailing with 27 other magazine titles to reduce postage costs.
Run lengths for publications produced by Schumann Printers average 35,000 copies, a job mix that requires make-readies every 30 to 60 minutes.
Investing in the wider 2x8 format Goss press represents what Schumann Printers' chairman, Jack Schumann, called the next logical step for his company.
He said: "For us, getting 32 pages from a single-web press is preferable to 32 pages from a traditional two-web press.
We will have half as many units, pasters and splicers to deal with and we will reduce our labour." Schumann Printers expects to operate the new Sunday press with a three-person crew, with a fourth person covering the delivery duties on the new press and the existing Sunday 2000 press.
Jack Schumann explained: "We continue to make major investments to better serve our customers and we continue to count on Goss International for the highest levels of innovation and support." The company installed a Goss Sunday 2000 press with Autoplate technology in 2004 and said it was the first company in the world to have closed-loop control on all of its web presses.
Schumann believes it has the most sophisticated plant in the publication printing industry and that it was important to invest in automation, digital pre-setting and closed-loop technology to squeeze waste and inefficiency out of the make-ready process.
According to Schumann, choosing a single supplier for a new press, an audit, an enhancement and a finishing system is unusual but logical.
The company believes that Goss press and finishing technology is the most innovative available and it said that a single vendor streamlines installation, support and compatibility.
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