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sheetfed News # 1 Supplement · May 2012

The legend goes on… drupa 2012 a great success

It's been just three months since the sheetfed division of insolvent manroland AG was rescued from insolvency. As widely expected Roland aficionado's from around the world beat a path to the new manroland sheetfed GmbH booth in Hall 6 at Messe Dusseldorf.

Those that made the journey were not to be disappointed. With The company also confirmed that it would continue selling and well over 10,000 presses installed, manroland users worldwide developing its entire product range and added that it would not Over 130 staff from manroland subsidiaries around the world, attended the drupa staff briefing. breathed a collective sigh of relief that an investor had come be discontinuing certain press formats, despite the predictions of forward in February. At drupa 2012 the new company showed some industry commentators. that it was not only very much alive and kicking, but maintaining the fabled manroland reputation for innovation by unveiling On the day before the show opened, the new manroland several new developments to its 700 and 900 series machines. sheetfed pulled another ace from the pack by announcing a tie up with what turned out to be the sensation of drupa 2012: Benny Landa and his "Nano Digital” technology. The deal was formally signed during the show.

manroland sheetfed has dedicated followers, especially amongst high end commercial and packaging printers, many believing that when it comes to quality, speed and reliability, there is The new console module received great interest. nothing to touch ROLAND machines and visitors came to the booth in numbers. The company reported over 3000 visitors and announced almost 200 press sales either confirmed or agreed at What they said... the fair, with many more expected to be concluded within the coming months. Together with existing pre-drupa orders, the “Performance and reliability are key variables firm says it expects to reach or exceed all of its targets for this in the printing industry. manroland offers year. both combined with an enormous know-how and targeted products.” Describing the company's presence at the 2012 event as "a Helmuth Oschmann success in itself", Board Member Rafael Penuela, speaking from Volkswagen Druckerei the famous drupa "red sofa", said that as well as showcasing its “We are the leading Polish producer of paper products for schools and offices. We are Continued on page 3 Benny Landa and Rafael Penuela seal NANO digital partnership equipped with manroland machines, which provide us with customized, state of the art La Poste invests in ROLAND 700 solutions. I think we are now more than just business partners.” ę manroland France reported success at drupa 2012 when new Dariusz R kawek Owner customer, the La Poste group, placed an order for a ROLAND 706 Interdruk Corporation LLV. “Our main business is packaging printing, and La Poste is a prestigious printing company who specialize in manroland is no doubt the leader in the field stamps and security printing in France, with emphasis on print of packaging printing industry!” quality, efficiency and service. The new press will help them to Chen Chengwen meet business growth and to stay ahead. Board Chairman/ President Hucais Printing Group After a series of rigorous tests and comparisons with other “manroland, What doesn’t destroy you shall brands, the ROLAND 706 LLV stood out above all others simply make you stronger” because it met all expectations; manroland demonstrated a 600 LPI print job to a very high standard and alcohol-free in the UV Victor Ho President Director process! PT Indonesia Printer

The new press will be equipped with a high end configuration “We can produce high-quality prints at high From left to right : and will service 6 printing units, 1 cutting unit, the inkjet system, Adrian Powala : manroland sheetfed Sales Manager, Marie Bougrain : speed now. Perform more complex work in less UV process and rainbow printing! Purchasing Services LA POSTE, Maud Dubo : Purchasing Manager LA time, always with consistent quality. In short, POSTE, Roger Noiret : Regional Sales manroland France, Hugues Cousseau : Sales Director manroland France reach record heights of efficiency for the Asked why they selected manroland sheetfed, the La Poste team greatest benefit of our customers” said “We chose a manroland press because it has the best Claude Vandevelde price/quality ratio and will meet all our needs.” ■■ ® WE ARE PRINT. VANDEVELDE 2 WE ARE PRINT.®

ROLAND 700 demo a hit Flexo printer goes offset Repeat order from Thailand with manroland Polish printing house UNIPAK order a ROLAND 705 3B LV HiPrint press at drupa

UNIPAK – a well-known cardboard packaging manufacturer is located in Wieprz in Southern Poland. Founded in 1995, with a reputation for reliability, flexibility and quality, UNIPAK is a prestigious packaging large scale printing company offering a full range of packaging to customized sizes, design and print by using flexographic printing technology. Mr.Tirapong Ratchtawongpipat, General Manager manroland Thailand Owing to rapid expansion to meet the growing needs of their pictured with Mr. Wichai Sakolvararungruong, Managing Director Kor It was difficult to get a seat to see the demos Karn Pim with their quality print awards displayed in the background. market, they have placed their trust in manroland sheetfed technology. The new press will enable UNIPAK to expand their Many customers may business activity further to meet the challenging print market in Thai commercial print company Kor Karn Pim Thien Kwang has have taken the time at Poland, backed by local support from the manroland Poland team. placed a repeat order with manroland sheetfed at drupa 2012. drupa to watch the The company has ordered a ROLAND 704 which will be installed in demonstration of the The ROLAND 705 3B LV HiPrint is a high speed commercial and August. Kor Karn Pim Thien Kwang has been a manroland customer ROLAND 700. Attracting a packaging sheetfed offset press with printing speeds up to 17,000 for 19 years and was the first printer in Thailand to install a ROLAND large crowd at every sheets per hour. It has been uncompromisingly designed to produce 700 press. show, manroland the highest printing quality in special format (78cm x 105 cm) and is sheetfed’s own Print also equipped with value added printing modules, such as select Wichai Sakolvararungruang, managing director of Kor Karn Pim Technology Center (PTC) Juergen Schunk receives a round of applause after every demo sheet cleaner, automatic color guidance and control system, Thien Kwang, said: “With the rapid global economic development, Print Consultants (and InlineCoater and drying system. the requirements of our customers are more and more demanding. print-enthusiasts), Juergen Schunk and Jens Kaiser and the PTC The challenge for us is how to meet their requirements, print faster, team, demonstrated the exceptional quality of print and the The benefit of the QuickChange options for the ROLAND 705 helps to print better and at the same time stay ahead in such a challenging performance of the press. Presenting four one hour long shorten and optimize make-ready times. For example, the printing market in Thailand? demonstrations and Q&A sessions every day for 14 days, in both QuickChange Surface cuts in half the cleaning time for the ink fountain, English and German, the PTC team were kept very busy QuickChange Color ensures less waste after a system restart, and “manroland provides us with very good solutions through their throughout the day advising umpteen customers on their QuickChange Clamp improves exchanging forms in the coating advanced printing technologies and services, and has been the best applications and proudly handing out sample posters “I could module. PressManager, the software for converting and transfer data choice for us as our business has developed rapidly over the years. feel the inspiration in the crowd and was proud to share my (CIP3/PPF) for presetting the ink profile, is also provided. ■■ Now with the installation of the ROLAND 704 we are confident we technical knowledge. The team would like to thank all the will be able to meet and even exceed the ever-increasing visitors who attended the demonstration and for their positive expectations of our customers by offering them our commercial statements and enthusiasm” said Juergen. To arrange a print products and services of premium quality and high efficiency. demonstration at the Offenbach PTC or discuss your application Our leading position in the printing market in Thailand will definitely in more detail please email [email protected] ■■ be further strengthened.” ■■

China chooses manroland again manroland secures Saudi orders

Leading Chinese packaging company Tianjin Yi-hong Printing manroland sheetfed has secured orders from two Saudi Arabian Development Co Ltd has placed a repeat order for a new customers at drupa 2012. manroland sheetfed press at drupa 2012. The company, based in Tianjin, placed an order at drupa 2012 for Imam Mohammed Bin Saud University (IMBSU), which is based a ROLAND 705LV to bolster its operation which employs more in Riyadh, has placed an order for a ROLAND 708P. than 400 workers on a 40,000 square metre site. The publisher has been a manroland customer since 1996 and Tianjin Yi-hong Printing Development Co Ltd offers an integrated now has seven sheetfed presses having initially bought the service of designing, plate-making, printing, binding and ROLAND 705, 304, 302P and 702P. It added three further presses finishing and uses five manroland sheetfed presses including the over the last three years, the ROLAND 504, 204E and 708P. ROLAND 706LV and ROLAND 905. Ibrahim Al Mohained, General Manager of Imam Mohammed A company spokesman said: "We chose manroland because of Bin Saud University, said the publishing house was expanding not only its consistent premium print quality, but also its ■■ and required a further press to meet increased demand. considerate and comprehensive customer service." From left to right, Mr. Mohammed Karram, Al Khorayef for Printing He said: “manroland came to my mind immediately. It’s the best Solutions, manroland sheetfed sales and service partner in Saudi choice for us based on the satisfactory customer service we’ve Arabia, Mr. Ibrahim Al Mohained and Mohammed Al Jirayn of Imam Mohammed Bin Saudi University and Mr. Christoph Fischer, experienced all these years in terms of print quality, efficiency manroland sheetfed sales head office. and after-sales service. We discussed our requirements with the than 30 years and has previously bought three manroland manroland experts at drupa 2012 and decided to order a sheetfed presses. ROLAND 708P.” General manager Ahmed Al Khars said, “manroland has been Al Jawad Commercial Press, based in Al Hasa, placed an order at our partner for many years. We know we can count on them drupa 2012 for a ROLAND 204E for its new commercial printing because they are always around when we need help. They have press operation. provided us with quality products and the excellent customer The print company has been a manroland customer for more services we need.” ■■

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Continued from page 1 ROLAND 700, star of the show The legend goes on…

For many years the ROLAND 700 has been the absolute benchmark of the printing industry. Available in three technological developments, the company had a special task to different versions, HiPrint, HiPrint HS (High Speed) and DirectDrive, it has inspired not just the other format fulfil at this drupa: to show the world and the print community, sizes of manroland sheetfed presses such as the ROLAND 200, ROLAND 500 in OB size, ROLAND 900 and 900 that the company was back. Citing the firm's drupa motto, "The XXL for larger formats but virtually every press. legend goes on", he said that that task had been firmly achieved and that the show had been a great success. He said that the ■ the complete press and the coating unit with extended delivery company had settled down well in the first 100 days under new is equipped with UV interdeck and end of press drying from the ownership and that it would not be going back to how the old latest generation manroland company was, becoming much more dynamic and ■ Non-stop systems for feeder and delivery are on this press. responsive under the guidance of Langley, its new and highly experienced industrial shareholder. To reach an even higher level of productivity, the ROLAND 700 HiPrint HS (HighSpeed) is available at 18.000 s/h with a different feeder and In his staff round up of the show on the final day, Penuela said delivery system to that on the standard HiPrint press. These systems that visitors to the new manroland had sensed the tremendous are inherited from the ROLAND 700 DirectDrive which is the third team spirit existing amongst the firm's 130-plus drupa team and model available in the ROLAND 700 series. It features the AC drive of that feedback from the many visitors to the stand had been the plate cylinders which makes it possible to change plates and overwhelmingly positive. ■■ wash blankets simultaneously. This significantly reduces make-ready times for profitable very short run production. Another outstanding Mr Chen from Hucais (left), the owner of the drupa machine visited us and gave us his full support, pictured with Eric Wong, manroland China. feature of the ROLAND 700 DirectDrive is the unique print length correction during print run. Most modern printing presses offered around the world today use Team spirit the same principles such as the mechanical construction with Following drupa 2012, more innovations are planned for the ROLAND 700 range. These include: double sized impression cylinder and double sized contact free At the end of every busy day at drupa, the manroland sales transfer system, a must to guarantee the best print quality ■ new fully automatic non-stop system for the feeder of the team took turns in cleaning the booth. requested by today’s high end print market. HiPrint HS and DirectDrive Displaying the "cleaning badge" no-one escaped the roster Since its launch, the ROLAND 700 has undergone many ■ blanket change in the coating unit simultaneously with plate not even manroland sheetfed President, Alfred improvements, and is the leader in the expanding and buoyant change and roller wash-up saving precious make-ready time on Rothlaender, who was captured on film here happily packaging market and was the ideal press to showcase at drupa. the DirectDrive model vacuuming away. ■■

The eight-color ROLAND 700 HiPrint LV on show featured all the ■ new additions to the InlineColorPilot – the print quality equipment needed for high productivity in the packaging measuring and regulation system integrated inside the press - environment and inline enhancement for the finest print effects and which is now capable of controlling and adjusting the register added value printing: automatically and also producing quality reports based on ■ a new generation indexed InlineFoiler system will show savings colorimetry (Lab values) of up to 50% of metal foil ■ two versions of the InlineInspector 2.0 with one or four cameras ■ the standard top speed of 16.000s/h on this HiPrint press has capable of checking the printed image of every single sheet and been upgraded on this machine to 17.000 s/h compare to PDF with 200dpi accuracy or 4pt text ■ ■ the plate changing is 100% automatic and operator free with APL theQuickChangeColor Self Learn 2.0 intelligent color zone pre- setting for waste reduction ■ InlineColorPilot D+F print quality measuring and regulation ■ system is using both densitometry and colorimetry. This new press console and user interface requiring less operator InlineColorPilot is also fitted with the new InlineRegister system attention and offering easier handling, unveiled at drupa 2012 as including ISO/PSO documentation with our PressMonitor a ‘new design’ concept model ■ ■ the new version of InlineInspector 2.0 which is equipped with To see the ROLAND 700 in action, search online - ROLAND pdf verification down to 4 pts text 700: That’s Fast! ■■ ■ the press is raised on a 550mm plinth and equipped with special cardboard package

Alfred Rothlaender, President manroland sheetfed, takes his turn Hira Print Solutions invests in a brand new manroland press in the stand cleaning roster.

Hira Print Solutions Pvt Ltd., Mumbai, (India) has invested in a Print Solutions selected the manroland. The ROLAND 700 HiPrint brand new manroland press – a six colour ROLAND 706 LV is a high performance press with superior features such as PPL, HiPrint with an inline coater for their new printing facility at manroland’s highly automated plate change and fast makeready Mumbai. The new plant will cater to the high quality commercial features such as QuickChange options. and packaging print market with products such as catalogues, Hira Print Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India, has been serving its brochures and magazines. This is the first sale announced by clients since 1996 and made its mark in the digital print segment manroland India at Drupa 2012. through “Quality and On Time Delivery”. Today with the rising “manroland is a proven technology so it was our product choice demand in offset printing and packaging jobs from similar for our new commercial & packaging venture. The ROLAND 700 clients, Hira Print takes a giant leap into the offset print segment HiPrint delivers high productivity and excellent print quality thus cementing their customer relationship and confidence making it an ideal choice for a high quality commercial printer” further. This has been done by adding a state of the art new said Praveen Patel, Managing Director, Hira Print Solutions. facility with the latest and best new equipment (first time in Superior product features such as double diameter impression India), right from pre-press, press to post press machinery. and mark free transferers together with a competent service Praveen Patel, Managing Director of Hira Print Solutions with Rafael support from manroland India were the main reasons why Hira Penuela manroland sheetfed WE ARE PRINT.®

Hecht orders a second Schwab Offset invests in manroland press ROLAND 900 XXL.

HECHT Printing Solutions, located in Braine-l’Alleud (Belgium), ordered a second ROLAND 900 XXL printing press. The four-color press with coater and print size of 130 x 185 cm will be installed in the fall and will be used specifically for printing POS displays.

HECHT, one of Europe's most important players in the billboard market, is best known to the general public for printing large posters in public areas. In addition, the company is also an important player in the POS market, which represents 30% of the €24m made in 2011. It is precisely for this division that the new ROLAND 900 XXL will excel. Laurent Vandecasteele, managing director of Hecht Printing Solutions explains the reasons for the acquisition: "We have a policy of investing in reliable equipment, allowing us to grow in the print media for POS applications. We have recently invested in a DURST Rho 1000 press, a very versatile machine that can print both from roll to roll or in flatbed mode. Such a machine is a fantastic tool for any type of print media for prints up to 200 copies at most. As soon as you exceed this amount, the offset becomes a faster and certainly more economical option. Drupa 2012 was the ideal opportunity to celebrate this new investment, together with their long standing partner Heinrich Baumann from Frankfurt That is why we invested again in a new ROLAND 900 XXL which who supports all their investment projects as manroland’s Sales and Service partner. is really the ideal machine for processing such orders." According to Laurent Vandecasteele, it is possible to print posters Schwab Offset KG is a family business located in the small town in print runs of 200 copies or less, while remaining profitable. of Hainburg, near Frankfurt, specializing in large format printing "Ten years ago, nobody would have believed you, but today, in a for more than 20 years. They print books and magazines, posters, perfectly organized factory, with the competent staff, it becomes tickets and calendars, advertising, packaging and POS. possible thanks to technological innovations but requires a lot of Customers are publishers, manufacturers and advertising ingenuity, such as the ColorPilot, which this new ROLAND 900 agencies, packaging makers and manufacturers of display XXL will have on board. It's always a pleasure to see how easily stands. Customers each have their own expectations and ideas, such a machine processes such work in no time." and those who select Schwab for the first time, remain as customers and they know they are in good hands.

A third generation is now managing the company with Alexander Kimpel at the helm. Throughout its history, they remain at the forefront of technology, for example they introduced a photovoltaic solar system to power their plant in Hainberg factory. It will also be the 12th press supplied by 2008 and in their search for excellence in printing, Schwab manroland sheetfed during Schwab’s long history. The new decided during drupa to invest in a further ROLAND 900 press press will increase their production capacity of folding boxes and size 6, with 6 colours and a coating unit with extended delivery. commercial printing. ■■ This press will be the 3rd ROLAND 900 operating in their

HK Graphic Arts delegation visit Offenbach facility

A delegation of more than 35 customers from the Hong Kong printing industry, organized by Graphic Arts Association of HK, made a point of visiting the manroland sheetfed Print Technology Center in Offenbach, Germany whilst at drupa 2012. Laurent Vandecasteele, Managing Director, Hecht Printing Solutions Heiko Stock, Marketing Manager of manroland sheetfed GmbH Perfect service warmly welcomed the delegation and took the visitors on a tour of At Hecht, the production runs 24 hours a day in order to produce the manroland sheetfed Print Technology Center and the R&D all the orders in ever shorter delivery times. "We cannot afford facility. The tour included a presentation of manroland's cutting- machine downtime, for any reason whatsoever," says Laurent edge printing technology and how manroland innovative printing Vandecasteele. "We already have an excellent experience with solutions can help achieve "better quality, more flexible applications, Graphic Arts Delegation wished manroland sheetfed continued success. our first ROLAND 900 XXL. The fact that manroland Benelux has faster service, and higher efficiency”. a very efficient after sales service has played an important role in The visitors saw demonstrations of the ROLAND 500 press with with InlineFoiler and Quick-Change, the ROLAND 700 HiPrint hybrid the selection of the new press." ■■ InlineFoiler, the ROLAND 700 DirectDrive, the ROLAND 700 HiPrint press, and the ROLAND 900 XXL perfecting press. ■■

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