Printers Install Heidelberg Solutions to Expand Their Business Prospects

“We understand print, and we have the capabilities and expertise to put that understanding to work for our customers,” Hottle said. “Many of our key employees have been with the company for 20-plus years. We know how to get things done.”

Graphicolor Printing Bids Goodbye to Bindery Bottleneck with New Polar 78 X Cutter

Graphicolor Printing, a small-format commercial printer in New Berlin, WI, recently installed a 30˝ Polar 78 X high-speed guillotine cutter for four-up formats to increase capacity and relieve a bottleneck caused by an increase in job volume.

“Our volume is up, yes, but we were working one-and-a-half shifts on our existing cutter and were unable to keep up with production,” said company president Mike Huebner. “As a result, jobs took longer to complete, and it was getting tight meeting our delivery times. On top of that, we were paying a lot in overtime.”

The new POLAR 78 X, used primarily for finished work, has solved Graphicolor’s bottleneck problem completely while providing short setup times and high cutting precision. The company retains a five-year-old 36˝ Polar 92 X primarily to cut and trim parent sheets.

“Thanks to eliminating the backlogs, we’re running more efficiently than ever,” Huebner said.