Offset Presses at GRAPH EXPO to Underscore Printers' Need for Productivity, Versatility

Indeed, productivity and versatility are two themes attendees will hear about from vendors--and see firsthand on the latest offset presses--during GRAPH EXPO.

Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses (MLP), for example, will be launching its Diamond V3000LX sheetfed press into the North American market at GRAPH EXPO. A six-color version with aqueous coater and extended delivery will be running live during the show. According to MLP, productivity drops every time the press stops for maintenance or quality issues. Thus the Diamond V3000LX features technologies that address those issues--such as a lubrication-free gripper shaft torsion bar and oil-less bearings on the gripper shafts of impression and transfer cylinders, which reportedly shortens lubrication time by 75 hours per year. The press at GRAPH EXPO will also feature SimulChanger, MLP's fully automated system for simultaneous plate changes, said to allow the printing plates on all the units of a press to be precision-mounted in a little over one minute; and Diamond Color Navigator, a newly developed color adjustment interface that reportedly cuts color adjustment time in half and increases reproduction accuracy by nearly one-third.