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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: Roland 500 five-colour plus coater press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 February 2007
Roland Press Accelerates Print Job
Turn-Round Time
The Print Room in Liverpool (UK) has ordered a Roland 500 five-colour plus coater press to install at its new premises in March.
The Print Room in Liverpool (UK) has ordered a Roland 500 five-colour plus coater press to install at its new premises in March The new machine will replace the company's existing Roland 305 machine as the three-year-old operation looks to further improve its efficiency and turn-around times, said MAN Roland
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 17 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Gateshead (UK) NW Printers has its 18,000 sheets per hour MAN Roland R500 press up and running and already working a double-day shift.
A director of The Print Room, Dave Mann, said: "We have been MAN Roland users for over 20 years.
Of course we had to look at other manufacturers' products as well but we saw absolutely no reason to move away from MAN Roland.
The presses have always provided us with excellent print quality and the technology on the latest models is, we believe, ahead of the rest." The Print Room was formerly the in-house print department for the Swiss Life insurance company.
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Swiss moved away from its Liverpool headquarters and a decision was taken to allow the print department to create its own stand-alone business.
Four directors took a business that was producing GBP400,000 of non-Swiss Life work and turned it in to a GBP1 million turnover printing company within three years.
Dave Mann explained: "We were able to stay in the same premises for our first three years.
But now the time has come for us to move and find our own facilities.
We will take on the new offices very shortly and install the Roland 500 whilst we are still running the 305, so it should be a smooth transition to both new premises and a new press." The Roland 305 is being traded back as part of the deal for the new machine and it currently looks destined for the Chinese market, added MAN Roland.
Mann continued: "The new press will still provide for B2 five-colour printing but we will also have a dedicated coater on the machine.
This gives us much more flexibility with regard to the coating that we use.
We often used the five units on the 305 for four-colours and a seal but having a dedicated coater gives us many more options.
The Roland 500 will also give us the very latest technology for ensuring faster make-readies, which is something that every printer is striving for at the moment." And he added: "With all the issues on global warming within our environment, we have opted to run alcohol free from the outset, accompanied with the use of vegetable based inks.
We believe that in choosing this option our customers can be assured that we are making every effort to become a greener company." The new press is configured to handle substrates up to 1mm in thickness, although The Print Room does not have a lot of call for heavier substrates but that feature may be able to open new doors and handle new work, said Mann.
The Roland 500 will be equipped with MAN Roland's Colorpilot system for managing colour on the run.
Colorpilot is said to measure a complete print control strip from the printed sheet, whilst attending to automatic calibration and displays any deviations on the screen in less than 14 seconds.
Correction of the ink slide positions takes another four seconds because all of the printing units are regulated simultaneously, claimed MAN Roland.
Dave Mann said: "Colorpilot will mean that we can get in to accurate colour quickly, and maintain consistent colour throughout the run - and that is consistency based on accurate readings, rather than being reliant on the eye of the operator.".
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