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The Art of Surface Finishing When Disaster Strikes Lenticular Printing Heidelberg The customer magazine Since 1930 • Issue 251 • 2004 News Issue 251Issue • 2004 Heidelberg News Heidelberg the art of surface ffinishinginishing solutions to suit every printer when disaster strikes insurance under the microscope lenticular printing perfected klenke-druck in dissen, germany g.com .heidelber www Printing: the art of fueling paper with power. Passion for Print. Heidelberg News • Editorial Contents Contents Profiles Innovations Perspectives Bernhard Schreier Dear Reader, The edition of Heidelberg News you are now holding represents a living piece of Heidelberg tradition. Since its first edition in 1930, our customer magazine pledged Quality and speed Surface finishing makes all the difference Preventing downtimes to provide its readers with “suggestions and advice for Delivery hot off the press. Sprint Copy S.L., How expensive does coating and surface finishing have Heidelberg insurance expert, Gerhard Bugla helps printshops progressive printers.” Barcelona, Spain, works to a very high to be? What do the cost-effective alternatives have to understand risks and insurance. Glasgow-based Scottish After a break of several years, we now want to con- standard. 12 offer, and who provides them? There are many ques- printshop McVicar found that not every cloud has a silver lining tinue this tradition in the form of the new, redesigned tions, and you’ll find the answers starting on page 34 when their insurance company refused to pay out. 58 Heidelberg News. The latest edition, Issue 251, comes to you in a new layout and format, but with the same com- mitment to deliver valuable information to you, our partners from the print media industry. Information that is useful in your day-to-day operations, information Profiles Solutions Opportunities about new technologies, and information which may even help you to improve your business model. 4 The melting pot of New York City 22 Going its own way 46 Boost from UV printing Our aim is to provide you with tips and tricks for eve- Jimmy Lin prints for minorities. The Suprasetter is developing along interesting lines Developments and trends. ryday practice, acquaint you with innovative products 8 All's well that ends well – an interview explains the hows and the whys. 50 Regions compete for the printing market and solutions from Heidelberg and highlight exemplary Faller KG from Waldkirch, Germany, cracked 24 Medium format – but top class China’s vast domestic market is catching investors’ attention. operations within our industry. the finishing bottleneck. The Speedmaster CD 74 is one of the most versatile Three regions are particularly attractive. 12 Quality and speed presses going. Happy reading! They’re the key factors in the success of 28 Two for every occasion Perspectives Sprint Copy S.L. in Barcelona, Spain. Printmaster PM 52 and PM 74. With best wishes, 15 Happy fiftieth 54 Town with a view Aumüller KG from Regensburg, Germany, is Innovations Leipzig: A center of print finishing for 125 years. banking on cutting-edge technology. 58 Preventing downtimes 30 Astounding effects Glasgow-based printer McVicar is rebuilding on its own Spectrum Dissen-based Klenke-Druck’s choice of a initiative following a fire. Speedmaster SM 52 equipped for UV has put them 60 “Insurance policies are always just an additional protection” 18 News and events on the road to success in lenticular printing. Insurance expert Gerhard Bugla offers useful tips. Bernhard Schreier From the Heidelberg world. 34 Surface finishing makes all the difference CEO, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG What are the alternatives? Service 38 Perfect finish at drupa 2004 A retrospective of Heidelberg print jobs. 62 Dates and tradeshows 42 Cool-dried wears better 63 Imprint Multicolor of Ellerau, Germany, is the first company in Europe to use CoolCure, and has seen it solve a ton of problems. 2 • Issue 251 • 2004 3 Heidelberg News • Profiles Profiles Concept PRESS The melting pot of New York City When customers of Concept Press Inc. of New York City, USA, simply found production times too long, the company was prompted to upgrade from a four-color to an eight-color Speedmaster SM 74 with sheet reversal and coating unit. Since then a growing reputation for high quality and rapid delivery times has helped attract new customers. ver twelve million residents from every corner of the earth make New York perhaps the world’s most multicultural Ocity. Founded in 1994, printing company Concept Press is almost a microcosm of New York. The company is located on Long Island. Its founder and managing director, Jimmy Lin, is Chinese. Of around 75 full- and part-time staff, native English speakers are in a minority, and the same is true of Jimmy Lin’s customer base. “Only 20 percent of our print jobs are in English, the majority of orders are printed for ethnic minorities in and around New York City, in Span- ish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic and Korean, to name just a few languages,” Lin reports. Around 80 percent of entrepre- neur Lin’s 20 million U.S. Dollars annual sales come from web offset printing, the remainder coming from commercial printing with his Speedmaster SM 74. In addition to a Japanese daily newspaper for the USA’s east coast, the web offset printer mainly prints magazines, and since January has been using an eight-color Speedmaster SM 74 to produce covers and high-quality pressruns. “Customers found delivery times of almost a week for a magazine with, say, 112 pages and 10,000 copies too long. This caused us to lose orders in recent months. That’s why it was important for us to reap both the time and quality benefits of 4 • Issue 251 • 2004 5 Heidelberg News • Profiles Profiles The perfect touch – printer Panorama view of the inking unit in the Ho Ruo Li carefully inserts Ho Ruo Li changes the plate on eight-color Speedmaster at Concept Press. the paper pile. his Speedmaster SM 74. formed on the Prinect CP2000 Center include the CP2000 in his native language. This elim- es. “The excellent accessibility to all the set- ed for long-term market survival.” Business format matching of the lateral pile stops, the inates operational errors resulting from ting controls on the feeder makes our daily is booming for the Long Island printer, who pull lay, the double sheet detector integrated communication problems with the press. work much easier,” remarks Guner, who is thanks to the new press has also been able to in the pull lay, and the speed-compensated However, Lin did not want too much auto- also impressed with the new press’s Auto- attract new customers. For the moment, blast air at the suction head. For Jim Guner, mation, as he did not want to dismiss any of Plate. “The printing plates are in the press in though, the company has run out of room production manager at his staff. At the same time, he recognized less than a minute per printing unit,” he for further expansion. This is a problem that Concept Press, who is of Turkish descent, the that his operational workflow would have to says, “which further reduces makeready Jimmy Lin wants to solve in the near Alcolor continuous dampening system, be further optimized in order to shorten times.” However, the high-pile delivery also future to make sure he can continue to grow which is fitted as standard, delivers further makeready times and deliver more quickly. saves Concept Press time, reducing the num- in the years ahead. ■ improvements in quality: “It applies a thin, “I don’t think there’s any point investing in ber of pile changes in large print runs and even film of dampening solution onto the faster and faster presses if it takes too long to featuring, like the feeder, excellent accessi- Further information on the company is available A New York success story: Jimmy Lin, printing plate, enhancing the brilliance of get the printing job onto the press in the first bility to all delivery components involved in from: www.conceptpress.net Managing Director of Concept Press Inc. the images.” place,” says Jimmy Lin. sheet transport, stacking and drying. “The delivery’s key functions can be programmed upgrading from a four- to an eight-color 32 language versions on the CP2000 New feeder boosts productivity. Jim centrally and easily on the CP2000 Center,” Speedmaster,” says Lin. The new Speedmaster Center – including Chinese. Jimmy Lin’s Guner is convinced of the quality of the new says Jim Guner. Supporting printing stock can process up to 15,000 sheets per hour, choice of the SM 74 was also dictated by the Speedmaster, pointing to the new feeder thickness of 0.03 to 0.6 mm (0.0012 to 0.024 even when perfecting. This now enables Jim- fact that the CP2000 Center includes 32 lan- which further boosts the press’s already high in), a maximum sheet format of 530 x 740 my Lin to fulfil his orders in less than two guage versions, including Chinese. It was productivity. “The new feeder features sepa- mm (20.87 x 29.13 in) and a maximum print days. The preset functions on the new Speed- important that his printer Ho Ruo Li, who is rate lifting and forwarding suckers and per- format of 510 x 740 mm (20.08 x 29.13 in), master 74 provide Lin with more of the time Chinese, and for whom English is a foreign manent monitoring of the front lays and the SM 74 is ideally suited to its range of ap- saving benefits he needs. The presets per- language, could perform all operations via pull lays by control elements, making sheet plications at Concept Press. transport 100% reliable.
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