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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: Inline Foiler Prindor
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 August 2007
Additional Print Profits With In-line
Foiling
A number of printers are earning additional profits by enhancing print jobs, according to MAN Roland, whose Inline Foiler Prindor in single-reel or multi-reel versions.
As a part of MAN Roland's value added printing philosophy, the company said that users of its presses appreciate the added value that comes from integrating foil transfer in a sheetfed offset press MAN Roland explained that printing companies are now using the Inline Foiler Prindor for a range of printing, such as greeting cards, labels, commercial printing or facsimiles
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 17 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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According to the company the process is also popular with folding box manufacturers in premium-quality markets who are looking for new and economical foil enhancement.
Besides the single-reel version, the multi-reel version that permits up to five foil reels of different widths to be run together is also being ordered more often, added MAN Roland.
MAN Roland said that the Leunisman printing company, a member of the RLC packaging group, has a Roland 700 press with eight printing units, two coating modules and a multi-reel Inline Foiler Prindor at its plant in Hanover (Germany).
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Within the packaging group, Leunisman specialises in premium packaging for body care products and cosmetics.
The firm is known as an enhancement innovator and mainly uses the Inline Foiler Prindor with one reel for applying solid and fine foil elements to the sheets, which can then be overprinted with six UV inks and two hits of coating.
Leunisman's managing director, Hans-Christian Bestehorn, believes that packaging designers and advertising agencies are not yet sufficiently aware of the very fine foil elements that can be transferred and overprinted by the technology.
He summarised the benefits: "The press with Inline Foiler Prindor boosts our capacity considerably because we save one off-line enhancement process.
On top of that, applying foil in-line provides unbeatable register accuracy and, of course, we have now increased our design possibilities.
Overprinting the foil enables us to offer images that were not possible earlier." K and D in Switzerland also specialises in folding boxes.
It mainly serves customers from the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.
A Roland 700 press with six printing units, two coating modules and a multi-reel Inline Foiler Prindor was installed last October, which sometimes runs with five foil reels but mostly with four.
Multi-reel operation is virtually the norm with single reels being run only occasionally.
Stefan Kuhn, governing board delegate at K and D sees an important advantage of multi-reel operation as being foil cost savings.
Depending on the subject, different numbers of foils in different widths can be used.
He explained: "Besides that, this new method of in-line enhancement gives us countless possibilities.
We apply the foil as fine elements, or as solids and we overprint with four colours, as well as with Pantone colours and overprinting the foil with vignetted halftone screens." Kuhn added that that customers' judgement of gloss varies considerably as some prefer the unchallenged sheen of hot-foil stamping, whilst others prefer the more matt effect of cold foil.
He summarised K and D's experiences: "With the Inline Foiler Prindor we partially substitute hot-foil stamping and we are also gaining customers by offering completely new applications.".
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