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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: Presses
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 March 2004
German Printers Prove Innovation
Provides Profits
Despite the soft economy, Germany's sheetfed offset printers are as innovative as ever, especially when new configurations can increase productivity or enable a company to set itself apart.
Despite the soft economy, Germany's sheetfed offset printers are as innovative as ever, especially when new configurations can increase productivity or enable a company to set itself apart from the competition through a specialised range of products and services That is the view of MAN Roland who backed up the claim by citing that in 2003 the company installed some 'outstanding' press configurations, covering all format categories, in printing plants of all sizes
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company said trend started in 2002 with the commissioning of a Roland 700 at Mohn Media in Gutersloh (Germany) and continued in 2003.
More and more sheetfed presses are being ordered from MAN Roland in novel configurations, in new formats, or with special performance features.
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What MAN Roland believes to be a trailblazing technical innovation will open up new savings potentials on sheetfed presses.
Harald Hesper, manager of MAN Roland Deutschland, summarised the reasons behind this development.
"Printers are becoming increasingly specialised and want all operations done inline in one pass through the press, or they want to move up to a higher format category.
On top of that, mastering the combination of offset and flexo printing requires the integration of high-quality multi-colour printing, in some cases also with perfecting and a variety of coating capabilities, all in one press line," he said.
An example of such developments is the nine-colour Roland 700 PLV, Mohn Media installed as the first press that can print catalogue covers both sides and also coat them in one pass.
In 26 months the press has printed 100 million sheets 4 over 5 colours and coated one-side.
There are now further examples from the publications and commercial printing markets.
For the past six months, Druckerei Kriechbaumer in Taufkirchen near Munich has been working with the world's first 12-colour Roland 700.
This press has a sheet turning station after the sixth printing unit and is used for 4/4-colour jobs with additional spot colours or one spot colour plus print varnish - all done in one sheet pass.
Standard output is 11,000 sheets per hour, make-ready time for 6/6-colour jobs amounts to between 25-40 minutes.
Druckhaus Gotz in Ludwigsburg has a specially configured ultra-large format press that they mainly use for publications work.
This is said to be the world's first four-colour Roland 900 in 7b format (120cm x 162 cm) and it can produce four-colour 64-page signatures and slit them in the centre with the inline slitter in the last printing unit into 32-page signatures.
MAN Roland also believes that top performance is increasingly demanded with small-format presses.
The Linsen printing company in Kleve prints 'whatever comes' on a five-colour Roland 500 (at speeds of 18,000 sheets per hour).
The jobs are mainly high-quality magazines, brochures and catalogues.
This full-service plant with a staff of 24 people takes full advantage of the fast press speed and short job changeover times.
They can, for instance, produce and ship 100,000 brochures within one day after receiving the job data.
Druckerei Persiehl in Norderstedt will mainly be producing packaging on the six-colour Roland 900 in XXL format 7b when it is delivered at the end of 2004.
What will make this six-colour press special is that it will be the first format XXL press in the world equipped with two coating modules, claimed MAN Roland.
Persiehl will be using it for enhancement with UV, dispersion, gold and metallic coatings.
This printing company in northern Germany is confident that inline coating plus high-speed make-readies and production will double the capacity it currently has with 10-year-old technology.
Another world's first claimed by the press manufacturer, this time for packaging, is currently being installed at the Leunisman in Hanover.
It is an eight-colour Roland 700 LTTPLTTLV which has a flexo printing unit and two drying towers (LTT) in front of the first offset printing unit.
There is a single-drum sheet turning station (P) after the second offset printing unit, and after the eighth printing unit there is the classic MAN Roland twin coater with two interdeck dryers and additional end-of-press dryers in the extended delivery (LTTLV).
Leunisman will use this 35-metre long press primarily for high-grade cosmetics and confectionery packaging.
High-quality folding boxes for foodstuffs and confectionery are also the main line at packaging specialist Field Rotopack in Bunde.
The eight-colour Roland 900 LTTLV format 6 installed in 2003 has a double coating module for enhancing the eight-colour signatures with UV or dispersion coating inline.
New, special configurations are setting the pace in poster and display printing as well.
Towards the end of last year the poster specialists Dambach in Gaggenau and Offsetdruck Team in Witten installed the world's first five-colour Roland 900 presses in XXL format 8.
Highly productive with low waste rates, they can print Citylights posters in one piece and large-format posters in only four sections.
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