Polar Guillotine Sharpens Printbylaser's Act

Printbylaser will be one of the first UK companies to take delivery of a new generation Heidelberg Polar guillotine.

Printbylaser will be one of the first UK companies to take delivery of a new generation Heidelberg Polar guillotine.

Its Polar 92X will be the latest 10th generation programmatic guillotine that features a new knife mounting system, a more robust build and 15-inch colour screen.

For the Washington, Tyne and Wear company it marks a first in buying new since managing director Eric Stevenson bought the company five years ago.

"We are replacing an eight year old Sepia guillotine so the Polar 92X will be the only cutter in place.

A guillotine is a linchpin of production and because ours will be a standalone system we have to have equipment that offers the best quality and reliability," he said.

The company has been pleased with a nearly new CTP system it bought from Heidelberg last year, together with the support provided, so reverting to Heidelberg for the guillotine was an easy choice.

Most of its equipment is Heidelberg, with B2, SRA2 and SRA3 offset print as well as flexo labels primarily for the public sector on offer.

Polar is replacing the E and ED ranges in 78 and 176cm width guillotines with the X and XT (touchscreen) versions.

In the 78cm size it also offers a simple and economic XS version.

All X and XT machines will have a P-Net option, allowing them to have full Ethernet networking capabilities.

The Optiknife knife changing system is said to possibly double the life cycle of a knife.

Adjustments to the knife are made low down in the cutting position rather than in the fully up position which to date had been an industry standard.

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