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News Release from: Komori UK | Subject: Lithrone S40
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 October 2005
Lithrone Press Sets Stage For More
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The latest investment by Pinetown Printers is a top of the range, five-colour Komori Lithrone S40 press as the company continues its expansion and modernisation in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa).
The latest investment by Pinetown Printers is a top of the range, five-colour Komori Lithrone S40 press as the company continues its expansion and modernisation in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) Over the last 18 months, the company has spent 16m Rand (2.02m Euro) on new pre-press, printing and finishing equipment and added another 1,000 square metres in factory facilities
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 1 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Kemtek has worked closely with Pinetown for a number of years as the company has evolved its operation in to one of the most sophisticated in the region.
" We analysed all the options in depth before deciding that Screen and Komori fitted our needs and those of our customers the best," said Pinetown Printers' director, Mark Samouilhan.
In a workflow ensuring consistent results at optimum speed from origination to finished product, the Screen Trueflow system manages digital proof production on a Lithrone-profiled Epson large format inkjet printer, before plate imaging and punching by the Platerite.
Samouilhan added: "We have boosted productivity through the pre-press department considerably as a result.
We are now producing around 1,200 thermal plates per month, operating the Platerite only eight hours per day and plan to double this when we move to 16 hours a day CTP production.
It was a logical step to add another press.
This Lithrone is a highly specified and efficient machine with a strong reputation for reliability and low maintenance.
Supported by the Screen pre-press system, the press enables us to further expand our services." He said that the fifth unit and coater with extended IR drier not only allows the company to provide a faster turn-around on shorter runs but also to handle long run jobs at speed and to add value to jobs, particularly where customers are looking for special colours or a high gloss finish.
Pinetown can now also achieve the results generated by Screen's SPEKTA screening, which will give the company an edge when it comes to producing the demanding 300 lines per inch (lpi) work favoured by advertising agencies and blue chip retailers, believes the company.
Pinetown Printers' Lithrone S40 is one of very few presses in South Africa equipped with a PDC-S closed-loop scanning spectrophotometer and CIP4 software to provide a consistent colour control.
Samouilhan explained: "Komori excels in the area of press controls and how these are linked in to the pre-press environment.
As a result, we can continuously measure ink density, colour tone, dot gain and other information quickly and accurately to establish and maintain excellent print image quality throughout the run." He added that the high level of automation makes the system very easy to use and extremely effective at controlling colour accuracy, with CIP 4 job data constantly fed back to the control ink keys.
Pinetown Printers employs 95 people and offers customers a full in-house pre-press, print and finishing service across a range of products from general print work and magazines to books, pharmaceutical packaging, labels and POS products.
The company, which has grown turnover by 40 per cent every year for the past nine years, has every intention of continuing that trend.
"The investment in the latest production technology gives us the capability to increase our business across the board, particularly in high quality magazines, where we can meet the tight deadlines that industry likes.
We believe we can increase capacity by 80 per cent without any more equipment but now simply adding more pre-press and finishing shifts," concluded Samouilhan. Request a free brochure from Komori UK ...
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