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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: Roland 500
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 November 2005
Komori Printer Shifts To MAN Roland B2
Progressive Printers, Nottingham (UK) has placed an order for a five-colour Roland 500 press with coater.
Progressive Printers, Nottingham (UK) has placed an order for a five-colour Roland 500 press with coater The purchase will represent a move up from SRA2 format to B2 and will provide the company with several other key points of difference in the busy Nottingham print market, said MAN Roland
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 5 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Progressive's managing director Paul Shotton said: "Having been a Komori house for some 20 years this purchase really is breaking new ground for us.
The new press will provide us with a wide range of features that are simply not available on our existing machines - it will handle substrates up to 1mm thick, for example, compared to only 0.4mm on our current presses.
The make-ready on the new machine is also incredibly fast, and the Colorpilot system means that the press can automatically monitor colour quality on the run.
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Our aim now, with the new MAN Roland press, is to be seen as Nottingham's number one B2 format printing business." The MAN Roland machine will arrive in Nottingham next February and will replace a Komori 526 five-colour with coater.
The company will continue to run its other Komori 626, which is a six-colour SRA2 machine.
Shotton and the Progressive Printers team visited the MAN Roland Graphics Centre in Offenbach to see the Roland 500 machine in action.
"As soon as the demonstration began I could see that it was essential for our business to invest in new equipment without delay.
We are used to making-ready in about 30 minutes or 40 minutes but this machine was all plated-up and running inside 15 minutes.
The whole demonstration was very impressive indeed," added Shotton.
Following the visit to Germany, Paul Shotton also spoke with UK Roland 500 user John Bamborough of NW Printers in Gateshead, to seek confirmation of the capabilities of the press in a commercial environment.
Nottingham has over 60 print businesses located in or around the city.
Shotton commented: "We know of 20 print companies within a one mile radius of here.
With that amount of competition it is important to be able to offer something extra to your customers.
The Roland 505 will certainly do that for us.
This investment will put as at the forefront of Nottingham printers in terms of print quality and speed of production." Fifty-five year old Progressive Printers produces a range of work for local agencies, local government and commercial customers, including a national grocery chain.
MAN Roland said that the Roland 500 has been designed with commercial and packaging printing in mind.
The ability to handle a range of substrates, right through to micro-flute board, its compatibility with UV inks, and the possibility to configure the machine with single or double coater, mean that the machine can be designed to match printers' requirements.
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