ACROSS the nation
Outsert System Folds Larger Sheets
LOCKPORT, NY—The Gooding Co. recently installed a Vijuk MV-2005 FA 53 outsert system from Vijuk Equipment. “With the addition of water scoring and pressing rollers, the MV-2005 has given us the ability to make outserts with up to 150 panels with tighter folds, allowing us to fold the larger sheets into the compact sizes that the pharmaceutical companies require to maintain their present package sizes,” notes Jerry Hace, president of Gooding Co. “Its computerized controls make setups quicker. And production is much faster and more consistent because double sheets are ejected without stopping the machine.”
New Sheetfed Press Replaces Three
MONTGOMERY, AL—The newest addition to Walker Printing’s pressroom is a four-color Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 52 press with Anicolor inking. The SM 52 Anicolor replaced an existing six-color Speedmaster 74, a Printmaster QM 46-2 and a digital press.
In terms of performance, Taylor Blackwell, president, says, “Makeready on the Anicolor machine is ridiculously short; we’re up to color in under 25 sheets.” As a consequence, Walker Printing is able to turn out work faster and more efficiently, including magazine covers, postcards, brochures and a range of commercially printed products. Unlike its digital predecessor, the Anicolor machine can handle run lengths that are “all over the place,” Blackwell explains, from 500 sheets to 50,000 four-color envelopes.
ARIZONA
TUCSON—To relieve the load on an aging Heidelberg QM 46-2, AlphaGraphics 153 (Cooper Enterprises) recently added a two-color Printmaster QM 46 for spot color work.
ILLINOIS
BENSENVILLE—Real Graphix has automated its shop with Agfa’s Apogee Suite version 6.0 workflow, combined with an Avalon N4 platesetter using Azura TS thermal plates to reduce waste and decrease turnaround time.
CHICAGO—Signco Inc., a family owned sign shop that’s based here, has installed an Agfa Anapurna M4f UV ink‑jet printer to produce point-of-purchase materials, displays, posters, signage and banners. In preparation, Signco also revamped its facility to include a showroom, workstations design/art room, cafeteria and storage area.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE—Paulson Press is getting longer run lengths, fewer plate remakes and sharper dots since it acquired a Heidelberg Suprasetter 105 thermal platesetter and began using Saphira thermal plates.
INDIANA
VINCENNES—General commercial printer Ewing Printing purchased a fully automated Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 press as part of its facility expansion.
KENTUCKY
LOUISVILLE—The Standard Group, an independent folding carton converter, has installed an eight-color, 41˝ Mitsubishi Diamond V3000LX sheetfed press with UV coater at its Southern Standard Cartons division here. The new unit replaces a seven-color, 51˝ 5FC.
MICHIGAN
CHELSEA—Sheridan Books has acquired a Civiemme vertical log stacker from Rima-System for use with its Timsons book press.
MINNESOTA
ST. LOUIS PARK—Direct mail and commercial printing specialist Japs-Olson has purchased a 12-color Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105 perfector equipped with extended delivery and aqueous coater. The press also features Heidelberg’s Prinect Prepress Interface and two Prinect Inpress Control reporting systems installed before and after the perfecting unit.
NEW JERSEY
BURLINGTON—Barton & Cooney, a printing and mailing operation, added two Xerox 495 continuous-feed duplex printers, a 500 image per minute system that prints both sides of an 18˝-wide web with a single, print engine. The presses will be used to produce more than 60 million financial, government, telecommunication and insurance-related documents yearly.
NEW YORK
BROOKLYN—When Coeur Noir, a boutique specialty printer, decided to no longer outsource its short-run work to trade printers, it opted for a two-color Heidelberg Printmaster QM 46 press for print runs of 500 to 5,000 copies.
BUFFALO—The Colad Group, a designer and manufacturer of presentation and promotional packaging, recently purchased a Xeikon 6000 digital color press. The Xeikon 6000 is capable of running 20˝-wide substrate rolls with almost no limitations in length, with substrate weights as light as 27-lb. text and as heavy as 16-pt. paperboard. The press comes standard with the Xeikon X-800 digital front end, which will enable Colad to offer complete customization and variable data printing capabilities.
ROCHESTER—Kernic Systems recently installed a waste paper handling system at CARTA USA.
NORTH CAROLINA
GARNER—Triangle Communication Group has changed its name to TCG Graphics. The company offers sheetfed printing, digital prepress, bindery, mailing and fulfillment services.
PENNSYLVANIA
CANONSBURG—Heeter Direct has purchased an EFI Pace management solution to help streamline its operations. Heeter was an EFI PSI user for almost a decade before deciding to upgrade to Pace.
WISCONSIN
RIPON—Catalog, publication, manual and educational products printer Ripon Printers has added a second manroland Rotoman N web press. Expected to be in production starting next month, the press incorporates a variety of automation features to speed job turnarounds.
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