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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: Roland 900XXL 7B-plus format press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 July 2007
20% More Pages Stretches 7B Format Print
Potential
The Roland 900XXL 7B-plus format press has been designed to capitalise on the growing large format print market, which is gaining ground in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and the UK.
According to MAN Roland, those regions already have well-developed large-format markets and the 7B-plus format provides printers with an extra 60 millimeters with a 1,260mm x 1,620mm sheet size, creating 20 per cent more pages, which could represent a significant gain for printers MAN Roland said that with the 7B-plus format's sheet size, with an image area of up to 1,250mm x 1,620mm, the additional 60mm image length has been made possible by using the press's cylinder circumferences to the fullest extent possible and by modifying the lead and tail image ends of the company's existing 7B model
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 17 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company added that the advantage is that the 60mm extra image length creates a significant increase in efficiency.
The five per cent added area on the press sheet increases page production in A4 operation by 20 per cent, which equates to one fifth more production, or 48 pages instead of 40 A4 pages utilisable for folding sheet processing.
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MAN Roland believes that the extra large format provides a printing company with a fresh focus on efficiency and the ability to print at lower unit costs, with book printers ideally set-up for moving to the 7B-plus format.
The company commented that investment capital and order backlog are important determining factors and the investment volume is a challenge for printers.
Apart from the cost of press, other investments in pre-press and post-press equipment have to be taken in to consideration.
There are practice-proved systems available for pre-press operations, added MAN Roland with platesetters from the better-known manufacturers able to expose the format without any problem.
The company also claimed that efficiency is ensured by the compatibility of raw plates in the 7B and 7B-plus format with its presses.
In MAN Roland's opinion, in general the total investment will constitute 10 per cent - 15 per cent of the end product.
The rest is composed of printing material and personnel costs.
The sum of investment in an overall production system consisting of platesetter, sheetfed offset press and folder is reflected in the hourly press cost as 20 per cent - 25 per cent.
The corresponding figure for personnel costs, in contrast, is 30 per cent.
The order backlog of a large-format printing company must have a certain volume and a certain structure, according to MAN Roland.
The segment structure is only conditionally decisive as that is balanced in the large format area, compared with the smaller sheet formats - in commercial, publication and packaging printing alike.
What makes the large-format presses interesting are the short make-ready and production times, which can be further reduced with a networking system, such as Printnet.
The customer spectrum is broad - from long-run packaging printing to short-run poster printing, claimed MAN Roland.
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