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News Release from: Oce Printing Systems | Subject: Oce 6250 digital printer
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 September 2007
Digital Printer To Run In-Line With
Booklet Maker
The first move in to digital printing by lithographic printer Halstan Printing Group will be a world first when it runs the Oce 6250 press in-line to a Watkiss Powersquare 200 booklet maker.
The investment will be a cornerstone in the development of a self-contained unit at the GBP7.8million turnover company in Amersham, Buckinghamshire (UK) which is using the Oce 6250 perfecting press and Watkiss combination to produce sheet music publications, journals and specialist books The system is earmarked to take on GBP250,000 worth of Halstan's work in its first year of installation
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company aims to increase the amount of jobs printed on the machine as quickly as possible, with the intention of running it on a double-day shift within months, said Oce.
The Oce system will be supplemented with a digital colour press and short-run binding equipment before the end of the year.
Halstan assessed the digital arena for several years before committing to Oce, said the company.
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Chris Smith, chairman of Halstan, said: "The 6250's introduction to the marketplace marked a turning point for digital technology and we knew that this was the product we had been waiting for.
Before purchasing the Oce 6250 we reviewed systems from IBM, Canon, Nipson and Xerox but found that due to its high production capabilities, sheet size and high-quality output, which on most stocks is indistinguishable from litho, the Oce 6250 offers the best possible result." He added: "We have been very impressed with the quality of the halftones, which is particularly important on some of our key pharmaceutical work." Smith commented that by being a low temperature fusion machine, the 6250 is also one of the few machines that can handle the wide range and sizes of specialist stocks that Halstan uses for journals and music publications.
In addition, with Watkiss's Powersquare 200 functioning in-line to the 6250, Halstan is able to produce square backed books in a single pass at a reasonable price.
The style of wire stitching offered by the Watkiss machine has been of real interest to Halstan's music and journal publishing clients.
Smith added: "At Halstan, we believe the future of the book printer lays with its ability to help publishers better handle their stock levels, to avoid high management and inventory costs of housing backlist titles.
Printing volumes as low as 10 copies is now a viable option for our customers and we also have the facility to produce personalised books if required, which could be a lucrative new commercial venture for our customers in the future." Craig Nethercott, Oce UK 's sector manager for graphic arts, said: "By offering an unrivalled level of automation and print speeds of up to 250 A4 pages per minute, Oce's 6250 is an ideal system for the forward-thinking book printer, such as Halstan.
We are delighted that Halstan has benefited from the 6250, which is the ideal digital system to produce quality, profitable short runs at the touch of a button and can supplement the number of issues produced lithographically." Halstan has been awarded full ISO 14001 accreditation and the Oce 6250 is claimed to reduce paper and toner usage and because the system does not use selenium, developer or fuser oil and the printing process produces virtually no ozone.
In addition the system fuses at a lower temperature than other models on the market, which means the Oce 6250 also uses less power, said the company.
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