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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: DICOweb Press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 March 2004
MAN Roland's DICOweb Proves Profit
Potential
Within the last two years, MAN Roland has experienced significant development to achieve full profitability with its two DICOweb pilot customers.
Within the last two years, MAN Roland has experienced significant development to achieve full profitability with its two DICOweb pilot customers, Nussbaum Medien GmbH (Germany) Stampfli AG in Berne (Switzerland) Waste reduction and durability of the DICOweb were targeted as well as changeover times and the overall weekly throughput
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 1 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The DICOweb at Nussbaum Medien was installed in 2001.
It is a 4/4-colour coldset configuration with short ink trains for printing local and official newspapers in run lengths between 500 and 30,000 copies.
The installation at Stampfli AG was completed in November 2002, where four-unit heatset press with integrated flexible folder has been used for commercial work, catalogues and magazines.
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Both systems are based on the same DICOweb platform, providing the DICO (Digital Change Over) thermal transfer process for imaging and de-imaging in the press.
MAN Roland claimed that the DICOweb is still the only system boasting a deletable in-press offset forme, the first real computer-to-press offset printing system in the market.
At Nussbaum the DICOweb produces up to 70 jobs per week in six shifts, adding up to a total of 600,000 copies.
With job changeover times of approximately 10 minutes (for the whole cycle of imaging, fixing and de-imaging) and waste rates of less than 200 copies, the system has now proven its short-run capabilities in daily use, said MAN Roland.
At the Swiss Stampfli AG, DICOweb is producing in a three-shift operation.
According to owner Peter Stampfli, print quality "is already higher than we expected and comparable to conventional sheetfed offset quality." MAN Roland said the reliability of the imaging system attained 98% during the pilot phase.
The test phase also comprised tests of the flexible folder, which is integrated into the system.
More than 20 different paper grades of between 50gsm and 180gsm have been tested with diverse folding schemes.
By intensively marketing the capabilities of the DICOweb and because of its integration into the publication process, Stampfli have already succeeded in acquiring new work, especially due to its rapid throughput.
DICOweb's speed of changeover within an integrated line with different finishing components will be demonstrated by MAN Roland at Drupa 2004, when it will also unveil further developments of the system.
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