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Lew A. Cummings Gains Greater Sheetfed Offset Firepower with Speedmaster XL 75

Lew A. Cummings Co., a full-service publication printer based in Hooksett, NH, recently supercharged its pressroom with the addition of a Speedmaster XL 75 with Prinect Inpress Control, AutoPlate XL simultaneous plate-changing, extended delivery, and integrated Wallscreen. In addition, Heidelberg’s JDF-based, Prinect Pressroom Manager workflow communicates preset data intelligently from prepress so that print jobs are automatically available to the press at the right time.

According to Pressroom Manager Dan Trudel, the new press will enable the company to supplement its web offset publication printing with a larger volume of commercial sheetfed offset work. The new XL 75 joins Cummings’s 1997 Speedmaster SM 102 in the production of sheetfed offset-printed components for web runs from 2,000-100,000. Cummings selected Heidelberg again, based on its trouble-free history with the SM 102, and because of the many time- and labor-saving features of the XL 75. The company’s bindery hosts assorted POLAR cutters and Stahlfolders.