Offset Printing - Sheet-Fed

Expanding its collection of Mitsubishi presses, Best Deal Graphics & Printing added an eight-color Mitsubishi 3000TP perfecting press.

At a recent open house at Heideberg USA's North American Print and Packaging Technology Center in Kennesaw, GA, Anthony Thirlby, managing director of ESP Colour Hub in Swindon, UK, gave a riveting account of ESP's stunning six-year transformation. The $26 million company today produces a combined 165 million impressions/yr. on its Speedmaster XL 105 (75 million) and XL 106 (90 million) presses.

Committed to helping its customers use technology to create innovative connections, Colorado-based Vision Graphics installed an eight-color Komori Lithrone G40 (GL840) with an H-UV system. H-UV inks respond to uncoated paper by curing instead of drying like traditional inks, delivering an organic high-gloss appearance. Vision Graphics is the only commercial print provider in its area to offer this capability.

The Roland 700 Evolution was unveiled at manroland sheetfed's Print Technology Centre in Offenbach, Germany, last week. This latest generation incorporates many new technological developments and enhancements, such as a newly designed central console, feeder pile transport for fewer interruptions and solid fixing of the suction head.

Winston Packaging in Winston-Salem, NC, has broken a world record in job production. On August 11, 2014, the company reached average speeds of 18,964 iph on 127,625 sheets in less than seven hours on its 41", six-color KBA Rapida 106.

Tempt In-Store Productions, a Quad/Graphics co., has completed the installation of a new KBA Rapida 205 large-format press at its Milwaukee-area facility. The new press will allow Tempt to produce POP signage, posters, displays and graphics of all kinds up to 81" by 59".

The 6-up RYOBI MHI 750 Packaging Edition series press will be highlighted at GRAPH EXPO 14. This fully automated press delivers what many commercial and packaging printers need—high-margin, special-effects printing for thick packaging board and light weight sheets.

With plate changing times some 50 percent shorter than with AutoPlate, the AutoPlate Pro is easy to operate and enables staff to carry on working during plate changes. It will be available for the Speedmaster XL 75 this fall and Speedmaster XL 106 in spring 2015, but initial installations have proven a big success.

After an exhaustive nine month equipment evaluation, JBM chose a Manroland R700 Direct Drive press to provide faster changeovers, high run speeds and advanced color management tools. JBM felt it was the best suited solution for its niche envelope market.

Mike Mahmoudi, a 25-year veteran printing company owner, opened Nino Press in the heart of Silicon Valley in 2013 and invested more than $3 million into his new business. Since then, the business serves some of the biggest names in global technology along with fellow commercial printers.