Goss International Launches New ‘Perfecting’ M-600 Folia Press; Finishing Solutions

DRUPA—May 29th 2008—At drupa ’08 Goss International is putting a new perspective on “perfecting” with the M-600 Folia press in live production. Combining sheetfed and web concepts, the innovative new press can double the productivity of sheetfed perfectors while offering an equivalent footprint and labor requirement and competitive investment and operating costs.

Demonstrations at drupa will emphasize high print quality as well as fast makereadies and low waste for short-run applications.

“The M-600 Folia press unleashes significant productivity and economic advantages for the production of high-quality double-sided sheets,” says Jean-Claude Pautrat, product management director, Goss International. “In developing this unique press we started with one clear objective – to make it faster, easier and less costly to print high-quality sheeted products. We analyzed sheetfed and web offset workflows and integrated advantages from both applications, from paper supply, impression mechanisms, automated functions and auxiliaries to the creation of precisely aligned stacks of perfected sheets. The overall result is high print quality, fast makereadies, low waste and maximum agility at extremely short run lengths.”

The M-600 Folia press utilizes sheetfed inks and consumables and features M-600 printing units that accommodate multiple-weight paper stocks. An innovative new sheeter developed exclusively with VITS allows printing at up to 30,000 sheets per hour on coated stocks without a dryer. The blanket-to-blanket M-600 units print simultaneously on both sides of the web, enabling full-format printing of sheets up to 700 x 1020 mm (27.5 x 40 inches) without non-print gutters required for conventional sheetfed perfecting.

Innovative sheeting technology

The new sheeter developed for the M-600 Folia press conveys the printed web using unique air rollers. The precise application of anti-set-off powder to both sides of the web is achieved by the extension of the transport system to turn the web, so that the set-off powder is always applied vertically on both sides. This provides a balance of set-off particle size and controllable application.