Productive Presses With Fast Make-Readies Booked

UK book printer Clays of Bungay is one of a long line of Komori customers that have placed additional orders for Lithrones at Drupa 2004 - this time for a six-colour Lithrone LS640 with coater.

UK book printer Clays of Bungay is one of a long line of Komori customers that have placed additional orders for Lithrones at Drupa 2004 - this time for a six-colour Lithrone LS640 with coater.

The new press, which will be delivered in September, will join four B2 Lithrones and a B1 Lithrone already in use at the Suffolk site and will be the company's first six-colour model.

"We're a long standing customer of Komori and have always been impressed by the quality of the presses and the service," said production director Angus Campbell.

"The new six-colour Lithrone will be our most automated press yet.

With run lengths for hardback and paperback books continuing to get shorter we need presses that provide us with fast make readies, consistent high quality and good productivity," he added.

The Lithrone LS640 at Clays will offer a fully closed loop colour management control system, with ink duct settings altered from the company's Creo pre-press system.

"We already have this facility on two of our B2 Lithrones, which gives us the capability to print longer runs on the B1 Lithrone and shorter reprints on the B2.

The Komori Lithrones at Clays are used to produce covers and jackets whilst the black and white text for the insides is printed on Timson web presses.

"The quality demands placed on us by our customers are much greater than they were even two years ago and we have achieved this improvement with the assistance of the Komori presses," commented Campbell.

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