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News Release from: Total Print Finishing Services | Subject: Ideal 7228-06 LT guillotine
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 May 2007
Guillotine's Greater Efficiency And
Speed
Kent (UK) Swale Borough Council has increased its in-house finishing by investing in an Ideal 7228-06 LT guillotine, from Total Print Finishing Services (Total PFS).
The new guillotine, which replaces an older model from the same manufacturer, is enabling the council's print department to create further efficiencies in its finishing operation and meet tight turn-around times, said Total PFS Roy Caney, manager of Swale Borough Council's print room, said: "We made a decision in 2006 to replace our old Ideal guillotine after many years of service
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 18 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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We had always been very satisfied with our older model, so we knew that our new guillotine would also be an Ideal product." He added: "However, a question still remained as to who we would purchase the new product from.
Total PFS was one of a number of companies who tendered for the supply of the new Ideal guillotine and it stood out in the tendering process for a number of reasons." Caney explained that not only was Total PFS's staff a pleasure to work with, the company's pricing of the Ideal guillotine was also highly competitive.
That was very important to an organisation such as the council, which is ultimately accountable to the public for its spending.
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The Council's print department is responsible for meeting internal requirements, such as posters, leaflets and, importantly, council tax bills and polling cards.
And when the Swale Festival - a summertime series of street shows, music and theatre lasting for a month arrives, Caney is kept busy with the production of all the necessary material, which is displayed all over the borough to promote the event.
Commenting on the Ideal 7228-06 LT guillotine, Caney said: "The new machine is considerably faster and easier to use than our previous model.
What's particularly impressive on this machine is the laser beam safety curtain system, which has replaced an old manual guard mechanism.
With the new system, the laser beam is broken when anything gets close to being in harm's way, which prompts the machine to shut down.
This is a major advance in terms of health and safety, as well as saving us a great deal of time as we no longer have to manually lift and close the guard before and after every operation." As well as the safety system, the Ideal guillotine has optical LED cutting line indicators, a foot pedal operated pre-clamping system with adjustable pressure of between 200kg and 2000kg, along with front and rear air tables.
The machine benefits from an small foot print and has a depth of 1,510mm, a width of 1,305mm and a height of 1,335mm, said Total PFS.
When the optional side tables are included the dimensions increase to a depth of 1,600mm and a width of 2,100mm.
Its HSS steel blade has a cutting length of 720mm and the machine has 40 different programmable settings.
Swale Borough Council's print department currently operates a two-colour litho press and two high-end production Ricoh copiers - an Aficio Color 5560 and a mono 4105.
Caney added: "Amongst our peers in Kent we're one of the last organisations still to be making use of our litho press, as printing at this level has accelerated towards digital.
We're prepared for these changes though and our Ricoh machines are up to the task presented by our high volume jobs.
In fact a lot of the time it's difficult to differentiate between the work that comes off our litho press and the digital jobs.
However, whether we're producing litho or digital work, our new Ideal Guillotine serves to maintain the quality we expect from all our machines by providing a professional finish every time.".
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