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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: Colorman press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 December 2007
Colorman Press's Short Delivery Time For
Newspaper
One of the leading German newspapers has chosen a MAN Roland Colorman press - with a total claimed plate loading time of 2.5 minutes - to meet its future production needs.
A claimed short delivery time and the advantages of automated plate changing were the reasons why the Neue Osnabrucker opted for the Colorman press from MAN Roland, which is scheduled to start production in November 2008 The Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung German daily newspaper is to be printed on a Colorman press because the Automatic Plate Loading APL system, which is said to reduce plate changing time for the press to 2.5 minutes
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 5 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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MAN Roland said that ability is a great advantage because, besides the flagship paper, which has a daily circulation of almost 180,000 copies, the Neue Osnabrucker publishing house also prints the Rheiderland Zeitung and freesheets in high circulations.
That came to 1,650 plate changes every day, which means that the enormous time savings provided by APL ensure a very fast return on investment.
The Colorman is to be equipped with four nine-cylinder satellite towers for 4/4-colour printing with an option to extend the press with one more tower.
It will have four reel splicers with automatic webbing-up, and the Tecosys web guiding and monitoring system.
Besides the Pecom system from the Printnet family, which is standard, electronic equipment includes a PPM Pressmanager, a Printnet production data acquisition system, and a Planpag page planning module.
Neue Osnabrucker publisher, Hermann Elstermann, said: "It demonstrates our entry in to a fully-automated future.
The robotised APL system will also enable us to reduce the number of presses we need from three today to two in the future.".
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