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News Release from: Heidelberg | Subject: Speedmaster SM 74-5P
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2005
One Press Replaces Three To Boost Output
City Print in Milton Keynes (UK) is planning to increase productivity when it replaces three presses with one Heidleberg Speedmaster SM 74-5P five-colour perfector press.
City Print in Milton Keynes (UK) is planning to increase productivity when it replaces three presses with one Heidleberg Speedmaster SM 74-5P five-colour perfector press The company's aim is to increase its turnover from £1.9m to £2.8m following the machine's scheduled installation in April said the German press manufacturer
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 6 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Going out are three older Heidelberg presses, including an SM 102ZP, a GTO 52 and a SORSZ.
The sales of two of the presses have been agreed but the 102ZP remains until the SM 74 is bedded in.
The three for one press swap will not mean job losses.
There are currently three printers running five presses and the company is looking to add another member of staff in the bindery, whilst next year the company is looking to take on a press apprentice.
The 32-year-old company has since the early days been a committed Heidelberg supporter.
Managing director David Vaughan, who runs the company with his sisters, admited: "We have always used Heidelberg machinery and have no intention of changing." He also has had good experience with a Speedmaster SM 52-2 but the SM 74 press will be the company's first multi-colour press and the most automated to date.
It will be funded through Close Asset Finance.
Although the company does plan to sign for a new violet CTP system shortly it is unlikely to implement a pre-press to press link immediately although that is in the medium term investment plan added Heidelberg.
City Print has opted to concentrate on the B2 market because more than 75 per cent of its work fits that format.
With a 2:3 perfecting option it will also mop-up single pass two-sided spot colour print easily and effectively, it believes.
The majority of City Print's work is from London with a great deal of it through societies, associations and the travel industry.
The company works flexible 12 hour days, five days a week.
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