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Automation for the fold Stahlfolder KH82: While the presses naturally took centre stage, Heidelberg’s introduction of a new cross-fold unit to its KH82 folder deserves as much attention. It has been possible to automate the set-up of a buckle folder, and now this has been extended to the knife-fold unit with automation ta Issue Date: July 2008
Baby joins Manroland family Manroland 50: Manroland’s first press under its changed name is a surprise B3 package, aimed at the top end of the two-page market. The company justifies this launch saying that more presses are sold each year in this format than in the B1+ sizes and that offset litho continues to print more pages a Issue Date: July 2008
Beauty allied to power Mitsubishi V3000: Easily the prettiest printing machine at the show, the MLP V3000 was also among the most automated machines on show. Like others it had employed servo motors to disengage the plate cylinders to allow for a one-minute simultaneous plate change, but while the fast make ready tools we Issue Date: July 2008
Chemistry-free plate matures Azura TS plate: Chemistry-free plates have taken a step closer to becoming the mainstream of printing plates with the introduction of Agfa’s second-generation Azura TS plate. The big step forward is in imaging speed, doubling the throughput over the first-generation Azura plate and increasing its Issue Date: July 2008
Digital web sets new target Xeikon 8000: The Xeikon 8000, for the moment at least, is established as the most productive electrophotographic press available to buy, something underlined by the confirmation of orders for Howard Hunt among others. Like all Xeikons this is a web press with print units arranged on opposing sides Issue Date: July 2008
Eyes on the KPIs Optimus 2020 Vision: The 2020 Vision MIS package from Optimus has been put together to answer the criticisms of MIS in the Vision in Print Best Practice study into its use. Vision in Print’s work on lean management involves the use of Key Performance Indicators to show how a company is performing Issue Date: July 2008
Folding gets an intelligent streak MBO T1420 Perfection: German folding machine specialist MBO has enhanced performance of its T1420 Perfection buckle folding machines, in line with market requirements for further automation, particularly on larger formats. The result is a high-speed folder which is one-man operated and what MBO des Issue Date: July 2008
Getting it bagged - guarantee Ferag Polystream: Away from the presses and the inkjets, Ferag had a technology that will have a sizeable impact on magazine production. Its Polystream bagging unit takes its proven Jetfeeders, and adds a sophisticated management system and new heat sealing system to build a polybagging line which Issue Date: July 2008
Good things come in smaller packages Sakurai Oliver 496SD: The Oliver 496 had been much touted ahead of the show as a press with a format to suit most eight-up work, but without the price tag or the machismo to have incremental increases in size over rival B1 presses. Sakurai has taken the opposite approach with an SRA1 format press w Issue Date: July 2008
Green light for LED uv Ryobi LED uv curing: While the entry into B1 with the 1050 drew a lot of viewers to the Ryobi stand, where the fact that it can be configured as a carton press is going to be very handy, the really impressive development was that of LED uv drying on a sheetfed litho press. This is a paradigm shift Issue Date: July 2008
Heidelberg's Jumbo takes off Speedmaster XL 162: Heidelberg’s XL 162 dominated one end of the halls the press manufacturer has traditionally filled at Drupa so effectively that there was little room to spare. It is a huge machine: clearly its chassis is capable of supporting larger format print units though there has been no an Issue Date: July 2008
Hybrid examples for sheetfed inket Screen TPJ SX: Screen’s four-up sheetfed TruepressJet SX inkjet press shares little in common with Fuji’s similar format machine apart from the use of piezo inkjet heads. Screen is absolutely reticent about details of which heads it is using, and about most things inside the press. What is known is Issue Date: July 2008
Imposing a structure Shuttleworth SBS MIS: Shuttleworth has addressed the lack of internal communication in many print companies by using the Events system in its MIS to set up structured ways of working that will prevent work falling through the cracks. In the first instance the system creates a set way of creating an Issue Date: July 2008
Inkjet arrives at high speed HP high-speed inkjet press: Two large round-topped cabinets, each large enough for a man to stand upright in, a reel of paper at one end and another 35 metres away – this time printed – signalled the presence of HP’s high-speed inkjet press. This has been talked about for around a year, but its si Issue Date: July 2008
Inkjet arrives for sheet printing Fuji Jetpress 720: Coincidence or something else? The idea of a B2 sheetfed inkjet press may have been the same from Fuji and from Screen, but the results are very different. The Fuji Jetpress 720 was a largely static machine during the show and will not be seen in the field until next year at the e Issue Date: July 2008
Kodak unveils future star Kodak Stream concept press: The Kodak Stream press is, according to Kodak ceo Antonio Perez, a machine to change the way that print operates. He has a vested interest in its success; indeed the future success of Kodak’s strategy towards the printing industry is going to rest on the success of this n Issue Date: July 2008
Kolbus widens its approach Kolbus widens its approach Kolbus KM 600: German finishing equipment company Kolbus has shaken off any cobwebs in its portfolio with a strong hand of new products from Drupa, including a dual path casing-in line. However, for most commercial printers the highlight was a 7,000cph perfecting binding Issue Date: July 2008
Lithrone on steroids Komori Lithrone SX40: The success of Komori’s LS40 press is a major reason for the company’s decision to extend its sheetfed press factory at Tsukuba. At Drupa Komori added another chapter to this story with the introduction of the Lithrone SX, a faster, slightly larger format of its B1 press. The Issue Date: July 2008
Plates on the desktop VIM JT plate: A number of inkjet plates were at Drupa, among them the Glunz & Jensen iWrite which is gaining ground, and the Technova plate from India. But the application of this idea that truly caught the eye was the JT from Israeli company VIM Technologies. Its pedigree is sound as ceo Avigdor Issue Date: July 2008
Sonic, the way to a clean press Vegra Easy-Cleaner: One of the stars of the show was not actually present on the exhibition floor; instead visitors had to take a trip to Köln where the local newspaper had installed the Vegra Easy-Cleaner. This is an ultrasonic cleaner used to remove ink and other deposits from metal guards, trays Issue Date: July 2008
Stars that shone at Drupa Were these the 25 technological developments that came to the fore at Drupa, the products that will change the industry? There was no vote, but plenty of discussion, to draw up this list Issue Date: July 2008
Stunning speed for cartons Bobst MasterFold: The award for the most astonishing sight at Drupa would have to go to the latest version of the Bobst carton gluer running at 230,000 blanks an hour, 450 metres a minute. The MasterFold is the flagship high-productivity version followed by ExpertFold, VisionFold and down to the en Issue Date: July 2008
Taking the automation prize KBA Rapida 106: KBA can fairly claim to have had the most automated sheetfed litho press at Drupa with its Rapida 106. Already flagged up were automated features such as Drivetronic for changing all plates inside a minute, and simultaneous washing of cylinders and feeder set-up. And as announced i Issue Date: July 2008
Tracking data to boost print Kodak InSite Campaign Manager: Kodak is rapidly developing applications around its InSite portal platform with InSite Creative being introduced at Drupa, This controls the flow of a PDF around the approval process, collecting the sign-offs that are necessary before a job can be printed. But while th Issue Date: July 2008
Well thought out for stitching Muller Martini Primera: The Muller Martini Primera saddle stitcher family is a hugely important introduction for the Swiss company. It’s more than the replacement for the Prima and Bravo lines, introducing three levels of speed, each in both C for conventional and E for electronic forms. The C130 is Issue Date: July 2008
Xerox beefs up digital flagship Xerox iGen4: The iGen4 is the press that Xerox thought the iGen3 was. As such it meets the needs of the most colour-critical users, those wanting higher up times and most of all those wanting consistency. Xerox has addressed all these areas, boosting productivity by 30% on a machine which, like its Issue Date: July 2008

Automation for the fold

Stahlfolder KH82: While the presses naturally took centre stage, Heidelberg’s introduction of a new cross-fold unit to its KH82 folder deserves as much attention. It has been possible to automate the set-up of a buckle folder, and now this has been extended to the knife-fold unit with automation ta
Issue Date: July 2008

Baby joins Manroland family

Manroland 50: Manroland’s first press under its changed name is a surprise B3 package, aimed at the top end of the two-page market. The company justifies this launch saying that more presses are sold each year in this format than in the B1+ sizes and that offset litho continues to print more pages a
Issue Date: July 2008

Beauty allied to power

Mitsubishi V3000: Easily the prettiest printing machine at the show, the MLP V3000 was also among the most automated machines on show. Like others it had employed servo motors to disengage the plate cylinders to allow for a one-minute simultaneous plate change, but while the fast make ready tools we
Issue Date: July 2008

Chemistry-free plate matures

Azura TS plate: Chemistry-free plates have taken a step closer to becoming the mainstream of printing plates with the introduction of Agfa’s second-generation Azura TS plate. The big step forward is in imaging speed, doubling the throughput over the first-generation Azura plate and increasing its
Issue Date: July 2008

Digital web sets new target

Xeikon 8000: The Xeikon 8000, for the moment at least, is established as the most productive electrophotographic press available to buy, something underlined by the confirmation of orders for Howard Hunt among others. Like all Xeikons this is a web press with print units arranged on opposing sides
Issue Date: July 2008

Eyes on the KPIs

Optimus 2020 Vision: The 2020 Vision MIS package from Optimus has been put together to answer the criticisms of MIS in the Vision in Print Best Practice study into its use. Vision in Print’s work on lean management involves the use of Key Performance Indicators to show how a company is performing
Issue Date: July 2008

Folding gets an intelligent streak

MBO T1420 Perfection: German folding machine specialist MBO has enhanced performance of its T1420 Perfection buckle folding machines, in line with market requirements for further automation, particularly on larger formats. The result is a high-speed folder which is one-man operated and what MBO des
Issue Date: July 2008

Getting it bagged - guarantee

Ferag Polystream: Away from the presses and the inkjets, Ferag had a technology that will have a sizeable impact on magazine production. Its Polystream bagging unit takes its proven Jetfeeders, and adds a sophisticated management system and new heat sealing system to build a polybagging line which
Issue Date: July 2008

Good things come in smaller packages

Sakurai Oliver 496SD: The Oliver 496 had been much touted ahead of the show as a press with a format to suit most eight-up work, but without the price tag or the machismo to have incremental increases in size over rival B1 presses. Sakurai has taken the opposite approach with an SRA1 format press w
Issue Date: July 2008

Green light for LED uv

Ryobi LED uv curing: While the entry into B1 with the 1050 drew a lot of viewers to the Ryobi stand, where the fact that it can be configured as a carton press is going to be very handy, the really impressive development was that of LED uv drying on a sheetfed litho press. This is a paradigm shift
Issue Date: July 2008

Heidelberg's Jumbo takes off

Speedmaster XL 162: Heidelberg’s XL 162 dominated one end of the halls the press manufacturer has traditionally filled at Drupa so effectively that there was little room to spare. It is a huge machine: clearly its chassis is capable of supporting larger format print units though there has been no an
Issue Date: July 2008

Hybrid examples for sheetfed inket

Screen TPJ SX: Screen’s four-up sheetfed TruepressJet SX inkjet press shares little in common with Fuji’s similar format machine apart from the use of piezo inkjet heads. Screen is absolutely reticent about details of which heads it is using, and about most things inside the press. What is known is
Issue Date: July 2008

Imposing a structure

Shuttleworth SBS MIS: Shuttleworth has addressed the lack of internal communication in many print companies by using the Events system in its MIS to set up structured ways of working that will prevent work falling through the cracks. In the first instance the system creates a set way of creating an
Issue Date: July 2008

Inkjet arrives at high speed

HP high-speed inkjet press: Two large round-topped cabinets, each large enough for a man to stand upright in, a reel of paper at one end and another 35 metres away – this time printed – signalled the presence of HP’s high-speed inkjet press. This has been talked about for around a year, but its si
Issue Date: July 2008

Inkjet arrives for sheet printing

Fuji Jetpress 720: Coincidence or something else? The idea of a B2 sheetfed inkjet press may have been the same from Fuji and from Screen, but the results are very different. The Fuji Jetpress 720 was a largely static machine during the show and will not be seen in the field until next year at the e
Issue Date: July 2008

Kodak unveils future star

Kodak Stream concept press: The Kodak Stream press is, according to Kodak ceo Antonio Perez, a machine to change the way that print operates. He has a vested interest in its success; indeed the future success of Kodak’s strategy towards the printing industry is going to rest on the success of this n
Issue Date: July 2008

Kolbus widens its approach

Kolbus widens its approach Kolbus KM 600: German finishing equipment company Kolbus has shaken off any cobwebs in its portfolio with a strong hand of new products from Drupa, including a dual path casing-in line. However, for most commercial printers the highlight was a 7,000cph perfecting binding
Issue Date: July 2008

Lithrone on steroids

Komori Lithrone SX40: The success of Komori’s LS40 press is a major reason for the company’s decision to extend its sheetfed press factory at Tsukuba. At Drupa Komori added another chapter to this story with the introduction of the Lithrone SX, a faster, slightly larger format of its B1 press. The
Issue Date: July 2008

Plates on the desktop

VIM JT plate: A number of inkjet plates were at Drupa, among them the Glunz & Jensen iWrite which is gaining ground, and the Technova plate from India. But the application of this idea that truly caught the eye was the JT from Israeli company VIM Technologies. Its pedigree is sound as ceo Avigdor
Issue Date: July 2008

Sonic, the way to a clean press

Vegra Easy-Cleaner: One of the stars of the show was not actually present on the exhibition floor; instead visitors had to take a trip to Köln where the local newspaper had installed the Vegra Easy-Cleaner. This is an ultrasonic cleaner used to remove ink and other deposits from metal guards, trays
Issue Date: July 2008

Stars that shone at Drupa

Were these the 25 technological developments that came to the fore at Drupa, the products that will change the industry? There was no vote, but plenty of discussion, to draw up this list
Issue Date: July 2008

Stunning speed for cartons

Bobst MasterFold: The award for the most astonishing sight at Drupa would have to go to the latest version of the Bobst carton gluer running at 230,000 blanks an hour, 450 metres a minute. The MasterFold is the flagship high-productivity version followed by ExpertFold, VisionFold and down to the en
Issue Date: July 2008

Taking the automation prize

KBA Rapida 106: KBA can fairly claim to have had the most automated sheetfed litho press at Drupa with its Rapida 106. Already flagged up were automated features such as Drivetronic for changing all plates inside a minute, and simultaneous washing of cylinders and feeder set-up. And as announced i
Issue Date: July 2008

Tracking data to boost print

Kodak InSite Campaign Manager: Kodak is rapidly developing applications around its InSite portal platform with InSite Creative being introduced at Drupa, This controls the flow of a PDF around the approval process, collecting the sign-offs that are necessary before a job can be printed. But while th
Issue Date: July 2008

Well thought out for stitching

Muller Martini Primera: The Muller Martini Primera saddle stitcher family is a hugely important introduction for the Swiss company. It’s more than the replacement for the Prima and Bravo lines, introducing three levels of speed, each in both C for conventional and E for electronic forms. The C130 is
Issue Date: July 2008

Xerox beefs up digital flagship

Xerox iGen4: The iGen4 is the press that Xerox thought the iGen3 was. As such it meets the needs of the most colour-critical users, those wanting higher up times and most of all those wanting consistency. Xerox has addressed all these areas, boosting productivity by 30% on a machine which, like its
Issue Date: July 2008