drupa 2012 : Offsetting Digital’s Advance

Also spotlighted was a five-color Ryobi 755G (now offered up to a 10-color version), a fully loaded, six-up press with coating unit and LED-UV curing unit that handles a range of substrates at speeds to 16,000 sph. Chemical embossed printing was demonstrated with a LED-UV curing unit installed in the delivery unit and a pre-curing LED-UV unit between the print units. Printing on 3D plastic honeycomb micro allay lens sheets was shown, as well.

For small- and medium-size operations, a five-color Ryobi 525GX with coating and IR curing units was featured. The two-up press runs at up to 15,000 sph.

In addition, Ryobi’s new UV Casting and Foiling System has been developed for the 42˝ Ryobi 1050 series packaging press to handle holograms/special effects, foiling and chemical embossed printing. During the show, security printing through anti-forgery holograms, including hidden and micro text, as well as 3-D hologram patterns, was featured. The UV Casting and Foiling System is also available on the 750 series presses.

Package printing was also emphasized by manroland sheetfed, which was acquired by British industrialist Tony Langley and Langley Holdings in February. The eight-color Roland 700 HiPrintLV in its stand was equipped with the new indexed InlineFoiler that saves up to 55 percent on cold foil consumption; automated, operator-free plate changers; the Inline ColorPilot D+F print quality measuring system, which uses both densitometry and colorimetry; the 2.0 version of InlineInspector, with PDF verification down to 4-pt. text; a special cardboard package; UV interdeck and end-of-press drying; and non-stop feeder and delivery systems.

Meeting the Need for Speed

For 18,000 sph productivity, the Roland 700 HiPrint HS (HighSpeed) is available with a different feeder and delivery system than the standard HiPrint press. Commercial printing innovations announced included LEC-UV (low energy curing), 64-page printing in a single pass on the Roland 900XXL perfecting press, and a new press console design and user interface.