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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: Lithoman press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 December 2007
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What is claimed to be the world's first Lithoman press that can print 80 A4 pages per cylinder revolution, with a 2.25-metre web width has been commissioned at German printing company J Fink.
The first pages were printed at the beginning of November on the 80-page press, which is the 10th MAN Roland web press to be installed at J Fink The new Lithoman has four blanket-to-blanket printing towers equipped with the Power Plate Loading (PPL) automatic plate changing system, whilst lifting gear for fitting and removing the inking and damping rollers makes it an easy task, said MAN Roland
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 5 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The project to develop the press began with discussions between MAN Roland and J Fink at the Ipex 2006 exhibition in Birmingham (UK) about how web widths in high volume commercial web offset printing would develop.
The two companies decided to start a joint project that resulted in MAN Roland developing and building a Lithoman in what was described as a new performance class 13 months.
The objective was to provide a press with a web width of 2,250mm, a cylinder circumference of 1,240mm, and a maximum output of 3.2 million four-colour A4 pages per hour.
MAN Roland said that from an environmental perspective, the new press probably offers the 'greenest' web printing system in the world, providing productivity, whilst necessitating J Fink's own solar energy system in the new pressroom to be expanded, with 1,250 solar modules now in operation.
J Fink now generates 200,000 kilowatts per hour of its own power each year via the system.
A heat exchanger produces warm water from the after-burning facility that supplies the public amenities of the neighbouring Kemnat municipality.
Fink's energy concept reduces CO2 emissions by 135 tonnes every year, added the company.
Eugen Gansser, J Fink's managing director, explained: "Thanks to German engineering artistry from Augsburg, it has been possible for web widths to be increased from 0.965 metres to 2.25 metres over the past 32 years.
Fink has invested EUR40 million in the last two years and the company firmly believes that the internet is not a substitute for printing.
Globalisation and fragmentation demand catalogues and other products that can be optimally produced on an 80-page press." MAN Roland executive board member, Paul Steidle, emphasised the trust that Fink has in the MAN Roland project team: "The invitation to attend the official start-up came before the press was even in production at MAN Roland." Thesuper-wide Lithoman is Fink's tenth commercial web press from MAN Roland and the German printer has ollowed the development steps in increasing web widths.
Paul Steidle said: "With the world's first Lithoman in this format, the technical pinnacle has been achieved for the time being.
It's amazing what potential has been opened up in recent years in terms of consistently high print quality, lower paper waste rates and productivity.
The borders between offset and gravure are blurring.".
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