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NewsletterTraining Information & News in Printing and Paper Converting Technology

No 96 • September 2014

ContentsNew PrintPromotion partners ��1Again a success:

The Specialist Teacher Course in Germany��1

PrintPromotion in the USA ��2

learn4print� ��3

Seminar for specialist teachers in Portugal ��3Training partners abroad /

Polytechnic Institute of Tomar ��4Joint VDMA/PrintPromotion stand at

EXPOPRINT 2014 in Sao Paulo ��5Energy efficiency and energy measurement

of printing machines ��5Re-launch and structural realignment

of the drupa 2016 ��6

Always up to date with Future Links ��6

Company newsBaumann Wohlenberg: Cutting system now

available in a light version ��7

Successful premiere of a bagging machine ��7bielomatik: Inline carton board coating

and cutting with bielomatik technology ��7

Exellence in packaging ��7H.C. Moog: Gravure – high quality for short

to long run packaging printing ��8Heidelberg: New standby function boosts

energy efficiency ��9Heidelberg Info Days showcase LE UV perfecting

printing ��9Mexican packaging printer invests in extensive

range of machines ��9

Lean, cost-effective production in Russia ��10

Postpress Special Folding Days ��10

IST Metz: Printed leather, sewn paper ��11Chinese print shop installs LE UV unit for inline

finishing ��11

Kama: Stripping & blanking without tools ��11KBA: Successful Open Houses for packaging

and commercial printing ��12Third and fourth KBA Rapida 106

for Chinese printing house ��13

Intelligent production-data capture in real time ��13

Kolbus: Kolbus-XML architecture in Taiwan ��13Mosca: Pioneering automated strapping machine

in Base and Pro models ��14

Mosca at Expoprint 2014 ��15

Planatol: Fold-gluing of special formats ��15

Polar: A global innovation - the EasyLoad ��15

First PACE cutting system in Poland ��16

Getting vodka labels into shape ��16

An important jigsaw piece ��16

Successful POLAR PACE in Japan ��17

E.C.H. Will: Take-over and rebranding ��17Windmöller & Hölscher: A full-range supplier

in the FFS segment ��17

New VISTAFLEX for super-wide printing widths��18

PrintPromotion Partners ��18

Imprint ��18 Printers’ Guide ��19

PrintPromotion is pleased to announce two new partners: KAMA GmbH and Mosca GmbH. At KAMA GmbH in Dresden, Germany, 110 staff develop and manufacture versatile die cutters, hot foil stamping systems and folder-gluers for the graphics industry. Having its 120 anniversary this year, KAMA is well known in the industry for its pat-ents and innovative power. KAMA finish-ing machines are distributed worldwide by leading printing machine manufacturers and in use successfully in more than 60 countries. Mosca GmbH is a system supplier, devel-oper and producer of high-quality strap-ping machines, strapping materials and safety systems for transporting goods for

professional and industrial use. The ma-chine portfolio ranges from universal de-vices with a wide range of applications to fully automated high-performance machi-nes that can be integrated into any higher- level automation line. Mosca produces strapping material out of PP and PET in one of the most modern sites in Europe. Mosca’s international distribution, service and con-sulting network enables global service for customers. The family company was found-ed in 1966 and is based in Waldbrunn be-tween Heidelberg and Heilbronn. In 13 of-fices worldwide, Mosca employs around 800 staff. With continuous new develop-ments, the strapping experts have main-tained quality and technology leadership in the strapping sector for more than 45 years.

New PrintPromotion partners

Every year, PrintPromotion organizes a Specialist Teacher Course for teachers of printing technologies from all around the world. In 2014, teachers of 12 differ-ent countries (Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, Philippines, Viet-nam, Uzbekistan, Russia, Sri Lanka and Zambia) had been invited to the three-week course at AZP Print Media Center in Chemnitz.

The three-week course was packed with interesting subjects covering the whole print production process from prepress to printing and postpress processes. The specialist teachers were, however, also brought up to date with regard to colour management, graphic programmes like Adobe InDesign, PostScript/PDF technolo-gy as well as PDF creation for print, even cost estimating and the parameters of a

Again a success: The Specialist Teacher Course in Germany

Simply a must: The souvenir photo of the attendants, some of the trainers and the organisers.

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workflow according to ISO 12647. In be-tween these sessions, the participants were taken to several companies where they could see print production and print-ing equipment production live. Highlights for the specialist teachers were the visits to the Media Technology Department of Technical University Chemnitz as well as Gutenbergschule, a vocational school in Leipzig offering, inter alia, training for printing and media.After the lessons at the AZP, which provid-ed information about the latest technolo-gies used in the print media industry, tips and hints that help improve the training level in their home countries, the teachers went on a one-week excursion to a num-ber of German manufacturers.The excursion week started with a warm welcome at KBA Würzburg. After an in-teresting introduction, Eshan Salem guid-ed the group through the production halls. Highlight of the visit was the foundry. The group was at the right time at the right place, they could see the casting of key components of a printing press.At Kugler-Womako, the group were shown around by Wenke Kohl and could watch several machine demonstrations, among them a passport manufacturing machine. Another highlight was the production of the EcoBinder with a little surprise: Each participant of the group received a person-alized EcoBinder pad as a give-away.Harald Stumpp of bielomatik LEUZE wel-comed the group with a traditional break-fast of the south of Germany: Brezels. And he gave an interesting presentation of the company. After the theoretical part, he guided the teachers through the huge pro-duction halls where they could see differ-ent machines in different production sta-tuses.At IST Metz, Holger Kühn opened the visit with an interesting introduction to the company. The visit was continued with a company tour guided by Jean Philippe Fournier, who gave the group a great

To enable their partners to inform in rele-vant markets about technologies, innova-tions and trends in the printing industry, PrintPromotion frequently organises Print Media Management Conferences in all parts of the world. The target groups of the event comprise entrepreneurs, manag-ers and experts from companies of the printing and print finishing industry (print-ing houses, bookbinderies, etc.).At present, PrintPromotion managing di-rector Dr. Markus Heering and representa-tives of PrintPromotion partner compa-nies are planning to travel to the USA in

run jobs in sheetfed gravure and flexo”; for KAMA, Ronald Lein will report about “e2e workflow solutions for short-run folding carton production”; Kai Büntemeyer and Bernd Gosewehr of Kolbus will present “Hybrid finishing – Serving digital and con-ventional printers”; “Bookbinding with pa-per as a “green” alternative and to enhance advertising/design possibilities” will be explained by Stephan Bühler from Kugler-Womako; and last, but not least, Dr. Markus Rall from Polar-Mohr will talk about “Potential to optimize your cutting process with automation”.

PrintPromotion in the USA

October 2014 in order to report on their innovative technologies there. Their stops will probably be Miami (6 October), Minne-apolis (8 October) and Philadelphia (9 Oc-tober). It is planned that:“Efficiency and new technologies around cutting” will be the subject dealt with by Sven Schubert from Baumann-Wohlen-berg; Wolfgang Ebinger and Ulrich Froder-mann will represent bielomatik jagenberg and talk about“Inline processing of digital prints – turnkey solutions / adding value to your prints”; Achim Kurreck from H.C. Moog will focus on “High-quality short-

The teachers were always all eyes and ears to take home as much new know-how as possible.

The range of topics dealt with at the AZP was wide – from prepress to printing, including quality management, and post-press processes.

overview of their business. Among other things, the participants could see a glass blower for the production of UV-lamps in action. The excursion week ended with a visit to the Stuttgart Media University. Professor Gunter Hübner explained the range of courses of study offered by the university and showed the group all working rooms. This was a great experience for the teachers since they could

get some interesting teaching ideas to use back in their home countries. The feedback of the group for their whole stay was bril-liant. They were all very pleased to have made this experience. And Dr. Markus Heering, managing director of PrintPro-motion, who handed over the certificates to the participants, was equally happy: All teachers had passed the final tests with excellent results.

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Gloss measurement is one of the subjects of the l4p Print module

Make use of the know-how which is divided into in-teresting modules on this platform. You will profit from information provided by the leading suppliers in the printing industry. The steady stream of inno-vations and changing markets in the printing and media industry require modern forms of training.

During recent months, some modules of the e-learning plat-form of “learn4print.com“ were brought up to date so that the animations, graphics, interactive tasks and exercises are again state-of-the-art. In the prepress section, the UCR/GCR, Text/Layout and EDP Data Handling modules were revised with new subjects being added by the AZP Print Media Training Centre of Chemnitz/Germany. In some of the modules, only the screenshots from the application software were adapted. In the Data Handling section with the Standard PDF/X-4, the respective test profiles and routines for the creation of stand-ardized PDF/X files were integrated. Furthermore, the test for this module was supplemented with this important subject. In the Text/Layout module, a new basic module, i.e. the crea-tion of documents in InDesign, was added – an aspect which had been missed by many users of this platform. Further-more, the basic module UCR/GCR has dramatically changed as a result of the development in colour management and, therefore, its contents had to be updated as well.The Printing Ink and Printing Practice modules have been re-vised as to their basics and supplemented with additional in-formation about networking. In this section, too, technologi-cal changes can be rapidly integrated by means of the authoring tools that are now being used. The learning lessons of learn4print can be combined flexibly making integration into any specialist course or internal train-ing course easy. The users of learn4print decide which mod-ules they need and then prepare their own individual curricu-lum.Practice-based work instructions on the training platform help users to apply what they have learnt from the interactive modules immediately: They download their work data and then proceed step-by-step with the hints and support of the PDF that is part of the module. The modules have, in addition, been adjusted to present-day conditions in the printing in-dustry with regard to the learning modules on this learning platform. Specialists with cross-industry special know-how are an important competitive advantage. Integrated learning is a form of learning which offers a didactically reasonable combination of traditional classroom-based lessons and modern forms of e-learning. The “learn4print.com” platform is an integrated learning concept for the printing industry for the qualification of specialized personnel irrespective of the pressure in terms of time and cost.

A new module of l4p: The creation of documents in InDesign

Calendar of events 20149 – 11 September 2014 Specialist Teacher Seminar in Tomar / Portugal

6 / 8 / 9 October 2014Print Media Conferences in Miami, Minneapolis and Philadelphia / USA

The next PrintPromotion Specialist Teach-er Seminar will be carried out in Portugal at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Es-cola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar (see page 4 , Training partners abroad) from 9 to 11 September 2014. Mr. Seidel and Mr. Schubert from the Chemnitz-based AZP Print Media Training Centre will cover the complete workflow in the print produc-tion chain in theory and practice. The sub-jects dealt with, inter alia, also include standardization in print production and the aims of the ISO 12 647 standards. At

Seminar for specialist teachers in Portugal

the end of the seminar, those participants who are interested in attending the Spe-cialist Teacher Training Course in Germany

will be invited to personal interviews for an assessment of their suitability for par-ticipation in the course in Chemnitz.


Name of schoolInstituto Politécnico de TomarEscola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar

Founded in 1987

Number of studentsNumber of students in Graphic Arts

4000150

Number of staff 15

Courses of study, duration and degrees

Bachelor degree courses Design and Graphic Arts Technology

Master degree courses Publishing Design

Technical equipment

Prepress

Agfa Rapiline AvantraScreen PlateRiteTechkon SpectroDensEpson StylusPro 4800

Print

HP Laserjet 5100Xerox DC250Hamada 700Fuji 50Heidelberg MOZP

Others

Heidelberg CylinderGluing machineFolding machineCutting machine

Fields of research

International activities

Contact

Postal Address:Estrada da Serra - Qta. Contador2300-313 TomarPortugalDirector: Maria João BomTelephone: +351 249 328 140

With about 4000 students, the Polytech-nic Institute of Tomar (IPT) has been a landmark among higher education insti-tutions for 25 years. With 23 Bachelor and 17 Master degree courses as well as sev-eral post-graduate courses, IPT offers a wide range of training areas and con-stantly reviewed curricula. Degrees can be obtained in technological and scientific areas such as engineering, but also inno-vative areas like conservation and restora-tion, graphic arts, plastic arts and photo-graphy.

In the field of graphic arts 150 students are annually being trained at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar. Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar in beautiful Tomar.

Training partners abroad / Polytechnic Institute of Tomar


The quality of the visitors who came from all over South America was very high.

Printing machinery worth about 350 mil-lion Euros a year were imported by the Bra-zilian market in the five years from 2008 to 2012 - of these, on average, 41 percent from Germany. Therefore, the Expoprint 2014 in Sao Paulo from 16 to 22 July was an excellent opportunity for German lead-ing manufacturers like Huber, IKS Klingeln-berg (a member of the TKM Group), Kama, Kolbus, Kugler-Womako, manroland web systems, Mosca, D.W. Renzmann and Winkler+Dünnebier to present their prod-

uct ranges and services at the joint VDMA/PrintPromotion stand under the label “Quality Made in Germany”. Their prod-ucts attracted much interest and they were extremely satisfied.A study published in 2013 by PIRA, a mar-ket research institute for the international printing and paper industry, states that Latin America is the region with the high-est growth rates. For the decade up till 2018, PIRA expects a growth of nearly 41 percent to 73.5 billion U.S. Dollar in Latin

News from the VDMA Printing and Paper Technology Association

Joint VDMA/PrintPromotion stand at EXPOPRINT 2014 in Sao Paulo

As regards investments, energy efficient machines become more and more impor-tant for the printing houses. This is not only good for the environment, but brings economic benefits, too.It is, however, not easy to make a compari-son of the energy consumption of the ma-chines considering the many different types and configurations. Diverse dryer and cooling concepts adapted to the product range and the conditions on site result in huge differences in energy consumption. The energy consumption in the printing process is influenced by a large number of parameters, as, e.g., print-

ing speed, paper grade, type of printing ink and ink coverage. Depending on the prod-uct range and the print run, the average energy consump-tion per square metre of printed area may differ sub-stantially from printing house to printing house.The connected load of the machine is not a suitable val-ue for the assessment of the energy consumption. Given in kW, this is rather a power val-ue for determining the re-quired size of electrical con-

nections and a theoretical factor for maximum energy consumption in an ex-treme case, including a sufficient safety margin. The actual energy consumption during production is substantially lower, may, however also vary strongly depend-ing on the operating condition of the ma-chine. In order to enable an objective assessment of the energy consumption to be made, the VDMA cooperates with experts of its member companies for the preparation of guidelines for uniform measurements of energy values of printing machines.The first of these Guidelines was published for offset printing machines in 2011:

The joint VDMA/PrintPromotion stand was also a meeting point for former participants of the Specialist Teacher Courses (seen here with Martina Schönnenbeck (2nd from right) from PrintPromotion).

America. By then, the market in Brazil (which currently holds 9th rank) will prob-ably take 7th rank and thus, according to PIRA, leave the European markets of Italy and France behind.

Fairs & exhibitions in 2014

28 – 31 OctPAP-FOR 2014 (International exhibition for pulp and paper, forestry, tissue, converting and packaging industries) in Saint Petersburg / Russia

14 – 17 Nov All in Print 2014 in Shanghai / China

Energy efficiency and energy measurement of printing machines


News from drupa

Re-launch and structural realignment of the drupa 2016

After a strategic realignment, the drupa 2016 – undisputed no. 1 flagship fair for print & crossmedia solutions – will be re-launched with a substantially reviewed nomenclatura and a new key signifier. The drupa 2016 will stand for “Print & Crossmedia Solutions”. All technical pro-cesses related to the areas of printing and crossmedia, the entire range of applica-tions and business areas will be present-ed. Solution-oriented technologies and applications as well as innovative busi-ness ideas or best-practice examples will be in the spotlight.The drupa has defined salient issues with acute market relevance and significant potential which are already playing an im-portant role in the market or will do so in the future. These are: package printing including digital label printing, multi-channel publishing and green printing.With the slogan “touch the future” the drupa will focus on the industry’s in-no-vative strength and establish a plat-form for future technologies, such as printed electronics and 3D printing. The drupa 2012 launched and prepared the market for pioneering technologies, and they have become increasingly integrated into the trade fair concept. In cooperation with the partners OE-A (Organic Electron-ics Association) and ESMA (Association in Europe for Specialist Printing Manufac-turers of Screen, Digital and Flexo Tech-nology), the PEPSO brand – Printed Elec-tronics Products and Solutions – was established. Since its premiere in 2012, the PEPSO brand has been systematically advanced.The drupa handles the issue of 3D print-ing with the same strategic approach, and has introduced the “3D fab + print”

brand, which is supported by the VDMA with its Printing and Paper Technology Association. The importance of additive production methods for tooling, compo-nent production, medical technology and manufacturers of consumer goods is sub-stantial.The so-called nomenclatura – the service profile of the drupa – was revised and up-dated and is now divided into six main categories (formerly seven):1. Pre-press / Print2. Pre-media / Multichannel 3. Post Press / Converting /

Package Printing4. Future Technologies5. Materials6. Equipment / Services / Infrastructure

VDMA 8873-1Guideline for the determination of the op-erational power consumption of sheetfed offset printing machines Part 1: Printing machines with and with-out sheet reversal, conventionalThe parameter used is the actual power during different operating conditions. Be-sides consumption at specified printing speeds, standby operation is measured as well. The main components of the ma-chine are recorded separately; as far as sheetfed offset printing machines are con-cerned, they are the printing machine, the dryer, the air supply and the combined cooling/ temperature control device.The guideline describes the measuring conditions, the measurement cycle, the

measurement procedure and the docu-mentation of the measurement results.A guideline for web offset printing ma-chines is being prepared and will be pub-lished soon (Guideline for the determina-tion of the operational power consumption of web offset printing machines – Com-mercial and newspaper printing machines).The aim of the guidelines is to create trans-parency with a view to the energy con-sumption of the printing machine based on uniformly determined values. They are a key reference in talks with customers and enable to furnish proof of energy effi-ciency improvements with new machines and alternative components.The machinery manufacturers continue their efforts to optimise the energy con-

As part of the relaunch of the drupa, the website for the world`s biggest trade fair for the print media industry has been ex-tended. drupa s Future Links give a daily news roundup from the printing industry and analyses of the six focal themes of drupa 2016: Ü PrintÜ Packaging ProductionÜ Multichannel Ü Green Printing Ü 3D printingÜ Functional Printing

Always up to date with Future Links

sumption of machines and peripheral components, inter alia, through lower consumption during the standby mode.But that`s not all: The staff of the printing house can also contribute substantially to a reduction of the energy consumption. The printer can influence the energy con-sumption by means of, e.g., optimal dryer settings. Certain printing machines can be equipped with inline energy consumption measuring systems in order to monitor the energy consumption. Furthermore, there is often potential for optimisation in the air conditioning and air supply systems as well as lighting at a printing house. But to exploit that, first of all the energy con-sumption figures within the company must be known.


Company News

Baumann-Wohlenberg presented their N°2 cutting system, which offers high flexibili-ty for medium cutting volumes, at drupa 2012 already. Now, the company has launched a cost-favourable “light version” of this system which consists of a BSH pile hoist, a BSB L (professional) jogging ma-chine, a system for automated front table feeding (BAVB), a Wohlenberg high-speed cutter as well as a BA / BA N unloader or a BSH-W pile hoist. The system is available for format 3 (750 x 1000 mm) +.The cutting system makes work for the op-erator much easier since he no longer needs to transport the pile from the jogger to the cutting machines. What is more: the BAVB can be retrofitted to any cutting ma-chine. A sliding gate automatically unloads the jogger and places the layers on a buffer ta-ble beside the cutting machine. A movable table with lateral stop and a sliding gate

for the transportation of jogged layers transport the layer from the buffer table to the front table of the cutting machine. The basic concept reminds of a curved gripper system (which is also available from Baumann-Wohlenberg). In contrast to the curved gripper system, the high-speed cutter of Cutting System N° 2 light is loaded from the front table. In total, the

system offers three buffers (one in the au-tomated jogger, one on the buffer table, one in the high-speed cutter). Handling time of a job with 4-side trim is thus re-duced by approx. 20 %.Another advantage of the system is that the high-speed cutter need not necessarily be equipped with an automated chip re-moval device.

Baumann-Wohlenberg

Cutting system now available in a light version

During this year’s Interpack, the two busi-ness partners, Baumann Maschinenbau Solms and Hahn Automation GmbH, pre-sented their mutually developed vertical form, fill and seal machine for the first time to a wider public. Many visitors, espe-cially from abroad, seized the opportunity to see the PH 25 “live and in action“.The visitor’s reactions were very positive while the bagging machine attracted a lot of interest. As a result, many new projects

emerged already during Interpack. The vertical form-fill seal machine PH 25 is used to pack different bulk goods into tu-bular bags. The bulk goods are inserted via a metering unit (doser); the tubular bags are inserted directly from the film-roll. The machine is equipped with a permanent drive and characterized by a double con-struction, which makes it possible to pro-cess two different format sizes at the same time.

Successful premiere of a bagging machine

Christian Joost (r), Sales Manager at Baumann Maschinen-bau Solms, and Peter Hahn, Managing Director of Hahn Automation (l), here seen with Volkmar Assmann, Managing Director of Baumann Maschinenbau Solms, were highly satisfied with the results of this début.

Canon has installed its first inline carton board coating, cutting and stacking solu-tion for the roll-fed Océ InfiniStream at a packaging printer. The installation is the first result of a strategic partnership of Canon with TRESU Group and bielomatik. bielomatik contributes the new bielomatik CFS di72 digital-controlled cutter, including piler with non-stop palletizing.

bielomatik

Inline carton board coating and cutting with bielomatik technology

System N° 2 light, the “light version of Baumann s N° 2 cutting system, can be seen “life” at the cutting centre of Baumann-Wohlenberg in Solms-Niederbiel.

Exellence in packaging

For a long time bielomatik wrapping ma-chines, cartonizers and palletizers have been first choice in the area of paper pro-cessing and converting. With the new CSC packers and CPL palletizers bielomatik is now offering sophisticated technologies and great experience to other industries with packaging requirements.The modular and strong design of the fast and flexible machines, their servo-drive technology, short size change times and minimum space requirements will make


The completion of one of its latest genera-tion sheetfed gravure presses gave H C Moog the opportunity to remind high quality packaging printers of what its be-spoke technology has to offer.The advantage of sheetfed gravure is based on its ability to produce higher qual-ity printing than standard with the possi-bility of high levels of ink coverage and great repeatability across a range of sub-strates and the run length. Typical mar-kets are cosmetics, security, liquor and also the tobacco industry where the visual impact of the cigarette carton has as-sumed a new level of importance with the banning of media advertising in so many countries. In addition, the growth of

illegally produced counterfeit products strengthens the importance of gravure printed packaging with its inherent ability to produce ‘secure quality’ results. New applications of sheetfed gravure technol-ogy also include the field of raised and tac-tile effects.The gravure market is split into web fed and sheetfed machines, depending on run length, with web presses being preferred for longer runs. As run lengths shorten and greater flexibility is demanded, the sheetfed gravure press with its faster make-ready and its ability to print up to eight colours or the possibility to varnish and blind emboss inline means that high quality sheets can be delivered direct to the flat-bed die-cutter. The quality of the sheet in this case is often measured by its ‘slide-ability’, which enhances the perfor-mance of downstream automated packing lines and leads to a smoother product throughput.The Moog TBR series was first introduced in 1986; its design has continually been re-

fined and Moog could secure 70 world-wide sales, mostly to Asia, North and South America, and Europe, though the Middle East and Africa are currently show-ing major growth potential. Asia typically requires three-colour machines and un-dertakes multi passes (because of low la-bour costs); Europe and America prefer one or six-colour lines. The majority (around 60%) of Moog’s installed custom-er base produce cigarette cartons, which like many other branded products, are now produced in shorter runs with a vari-ety of limited editions to constantly re-fresh market awareness. A growing trend in this market is for cartons printed six-colour gravure plus six-colours offset.

Gravure enables to use special inks, such as UV reactive, and security inks, which are essential to combat the highly lucrative counterfeit market. Gone are the days of soft-packs and flip tops in the quality end of cigarette packaging – now it`s high end cartons of a bespoke nature.Sheet fed gravure works well in combina-tion with offset. It also offers a sustaina-ble alternative to cold foil with the new ink formulations. Instead of using a foil, high gloss gold can be printed in one unit, or for added effect, it`s possible to print silver, and then overprint with all transparent inks to get a coloured high gloss metallic effect. Another advantage is that the product is recyclable, unlike all kinds of foil application.Moog claims that a significant part of its success in gaining acceptance for sheetfed gravure is the close consultation work it carries out with packaging designers and innovators. Moog is closely studying its options for development into high-end food, drinks and confectionary packaging,

as well as pharmaceutical cartons. For to-day’s market, Moog offers the standard machine size of 760 x 1060 mm, in single to eight colour configurations. Capable of handling paper from 75 gsm to 600 gsm cartonboard without gripper pressure change, and up to a maximum of 1 mm, the Moog TBR series offer 12,000 sheets/hour production speeds.Its central multi-functional console allows the operator to control the entire sheetfed gravure press from all machine settings and remote adjustment to instant job re-call for repeat work. The computer also reads sensors on the press to give both job analysis and fault diagnosis. The line itself begins with a high pile suc-tion belt sheet feeder, which is set up from the console and remotely adjusted for sheet format, thickness, air suction and speed. The electronically aligned sheets are fed into a swing gripper that acceler-ates them to the press speed before pass-ing them to the transfer drum, and from here to the impression cylinder and ink duct gravure cylinder. Here the Moog cyl-inder cocking system allows adjustment of diagonal register with significant savings in waste. The inking system, which uses pneumati-cally controlled doctor blades, includes precise viscosity management, and along with the gravure cylinder, can easily be changed by means of a trolley. The transfer drums have both internal and external drying nozzles that ensure the ink on each sheet is completely dry before transfer to the next unit. There is also an adjustable air cushion between the drum and sheet to prevent any sheet distortion and result-ant mis-register.After the last printing unit, the sheets pass through the delivery dryer, which includes a three-stage heating register and option-al water cooled UV lamps, before arriving at the high capacity delivery unit. Piles can be changed without slowing the press from full production speed. Two of the major benefits of sheet fed gra-vure lie in the lack of downtime and the ability to run high quality work without highly trained specialists. It is also a very clean process because of water-based and UV-based inks, incurs no problems with emissions, and thanks to its exhaust vol-ume being greater than its air intake, it runs in an odourless environment.

H.C. Moog

Gravure – high quality for short to long run packaging printing

The sheetfed gravure machines of the TBR series enable to produce high-quality work with very little operating staff.

bielomatik

them an important element to accelerate production processes and improve effi-ciency. The CSC 60 packer is available in

version for telescopic trays and lid boxes. The new palletizer for cartons, bundles, crates and trays for EUR standard pallets is also offerd with several options.

three versions: The WA version for wrap around carton boxes with inside or out-side back flap; the T version for carton trays with outside central flap, and the TL


All presses from Heidelberg that are equipped with the Prinect Press Centre now come with the new standby func-tion. This enables the press to be switched to an energy-saving mode that signifi-cantly reduces CO

2 emissions. Depending

on press length and format, the standby function leads to potential savings of up to 15 kW. Calculated over an entire year, print shops that switch to standby mode for just one hour each day can thus save

enough energy to power a family home.Day-to-day press operation involves re-peated waits and pauses. Switching to standby mode does not involve powering down the press. Pressing the standby button on the Prinect Press Centre switches the peripherals and individual sub-assemblies of the press to energy-saving mode. Powering up the press again is also much faster than starting it from scratch.

Heidelberg

New standby function boosts energy efficiency

Heidelberg offers the new standby function for all presses equipped with a Prinect Press Centre. Energy-saving mode is activated and energy saved at the touch of a button.

Mexican packaging print shop Grupo Reyes Hermanos with its two companies Imprenta Reyes Hermanos and Cimmex in Mexico City recently installed an extensive range of machines from Heidelberg. A new seven-colour Speedmaster XL 75 with coating unit, UV technology, and the Prinect Image Control colour quality sys-tem is now being used in production at both locations. The press for Cimmex is the 1,000th Speedmaster XL 75. The press

Mexican packaging printer invests in extensive range of machines

The Heidelberg Info Days at the Print Me-dia Center in Heidelberg recently show-cased state-of-the-art LE UV dryer tech-nology (LE stands for Low Energy). No fewer than 235 customers from 19 differ-ent countries attended this event. They gained an excellent insight into the effi-ciency and productivity of long perfectors and the associated postpress equipment. With over 2000 long perfectors installed worldwide, Heidelberg boasts a great deal of know-how in this field. This includes Perfect Jacket technology, which enables virtually identical print quality on both sides of the sheet. The intuitive operator guidance system IntelliStart, the fully au-tomatic and simultaneous plate changing system AutoPlate XL, reduced washup times, and the inline color measurement system Prinect Inpress Control combine to deliver fast, reliable, and stable job pro-cessing. This applies to both long runs and the very short runs that are becoming in-creasingly popular.A Speedmaster XL 75 eight-color press with coating unit demonstrated the latest perfecting technology and its impressive flexibility. And the Speedmaster XL 106 ten-color press on show set new produc-tivity standards, operating at 18,000 sheets per hour in perfecting mode. But

Heidelberg Info Days showcase LE UV perfecting printing

the highlight of the event was the Speed-master SX 102-8-P+L with LE UV. Sheets surface finished on one side emerged dry from the delivery ready for postpress. All press models – from the Speedmaster SX 52 to the Speedmaster XL 162 – can be equipped with LE UV. A Speedmaster SX 74-4-H with LE UV – an entry-level solu-tion for commercial printing – has recently been added to the demonstration presses at the Wiesloch-Walldorf plant. Visitors to the Info Days were given food for thought on a number of subjects. For example, Heidelberg Service demonstrat-ed a number of solutions and offerings to ensure that, if the worst comes to the

worst, action can be taken quickly to pre-vent long downtimes and ensure print shop productivity does not suffer. The Re-mote Monitoring presentation in particu-lar showed customers how predictive maintenance can prevent a press from breaking down. The Saphira portfolio serves a similar purpose. The newly launched Saphira Anilox Roller GTT reduc-es downtimes while also improving print quality. Appropriate CtP systems and Pri-nect solutions round off this product port-folio. Heidelberg also presented its UV LED sys-tem, which was unveiled at drupa 2012 on a Speedmaster SX 52 and is currently being transferred to the Speedmaster SX/CX 102. The big advantage of UV LED is its low energy consumption and the ability to control the switching on and off of LEDs for a particular format width and sheet length.Another topic touched on was Anicolor technology, which has proved its value for rapid makeready with minimum waste and maximum productivity. Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor perfecting presses equipped with this technology will be available from the second half of 2014 and it is planned to offer them in conjunction with UV and LE UV technology in the first half of 2015.

Visitors to the Heidelberg Info Days watched closely as they were given demonstrations of perfecting printing on long perfectors and LE UV dryer technology.

Grupo Reyes Hermanos is now using 38 Speedmaster printing units for its production operations. The packaging print shop specializes in UV applications in cosmetics and pharmaceutical sectors. The picture shows (from left to right): André Schneider, Head of Heidelberg Mexico, Alejandra Reyes, Gerardo Reyes, Frank Suesser, product management Heidelberg, Francisco Reyes junior and Daniel Coronado.


Postpress plays a particularly important role in determining the quality of the end product and creative suppliers can harness special applications to boost their produc-tivity significantly. That is why more than 200 customers from around the world at-tended the “Postpress Special Folding Days” at the Ludwigsburg site in early June. During the events, they encountered a huge range of special solutions based on Stahlfolder folding machines. Taking cen-tre stage were innovative options for the production of direct mail and several dif-ferent folding machine variants and op-tions for the kinds of small folds used in the packaging inserts that accompany pharmaceutical products. When it comes to industrial high-perfor-mance production, the Stahlfolder TX 82 folding system and the versatile Stahlfold-er KH 82 combination folding machine with the innovative PFX (Pallet Feeder eX-tended) stream feeder highlight two key features of cost-effective modern post-press operations – maximum production output and application flexibility with short makeready times. These special sys-tems can help to boost productivity by up

to 50 percent compared to conventional production processes. Heidelberg also launched a completely new folding ma-chine for cost-effective standard produc-tion at the start of this year – the Stahl-folder BH/CH machines in the 50 x 70 centimetre (19.69 x 27.56 inch) and 70 x 100 centimetre (27.56 x 39.37 inch) for-mats. Print shops can use these versatile folding machines as a low-cost entry-level option for in-house postpress operations

and as a cost-effective means of expand-ing capacities. Thanks to their end-to-end MCT (Modular Control Technology) con-trol systems, they are fully compatible with all Stahlfolder folding machines, de-liveries, and accessories. To meet the wide range of requirements and investment budgets of customers worldwide, the ma-chines are available in both basic manual versions and with a new, extremely user-friendly automation system.

Postpress Special Folding DaysThe new Stahlfolder BH/CH models – the BH 56 is shown here – gen-erated a great deal of interest at the Special Folding Days. The automated machine supports rapid setup and is easy to operate.

Russian folding carton print shop PROMIS based in Nizhny Novgorod, a leading man-ufacturer of folding cartons and the accompanying packaging inserts for the Russian pharmaceutical industry, has aug-mented its production operations with an additional six-colour Speedmaster XL 75 with coating unit and UV technology as well as a new Diana X 80 folding carton gluing machine. PROMIS is so satisfied with its first Speedmaster XL 75-6+L that it has installed a second identical press - now with UV technology - just 18 months on.According to PROMIS CEO Yev Eugeny Slin-yakov, the company has achieved nearly threefold increase in productivity over the

last six years, with a press now printing 50,000 sheets with five to six job changes in a single shift. The productivity optimi-zation process is therefore largely com-plete. The Diana X 80 folding carton gluing ma-chine is also making a significant contri-bution to optimizing processes. It is con-figured for production of standard packaging, including straightline cartons. Its modular design means it can be easily adapted to different conditions depend-ing on requirements. The Diana X 80 is ex-tremely flexible and excels thanks to its short makeready times and high levels of productivity, cost-efficiency, and process-ing quality.

Lean, cost-effective production in Russia

The new Diana X 80 folding carton gluing machine enables PROMIS to react to customer requirements quickly and flexibly.

is supplied from a new Suprasetter 75 pla-tesetter. Both sites have also invested in comprehensive Prinect software modules and two Polar 115 cutters.Imprenta Reyes Hermanos currently has a workforce of 170, while Cimmex has 95. From its beginnings in letterpress print-ing, the Group today focuses on small-format folding carton printing – 70% in the cosmetics sector and 30% in pharma-

ceuticals. Its customers are mainly locat-ed in Mexico, but the Group has plans to grow their exports to other countries in the future, including increasingly to the U.S.Both sites already have a Speedmaster CD 74 with UV and, since 2010, Imprenta Reyes Hermanos has also had a Speed-master XL 75-6+LYYL dual-coating press, also with UV technology, to enable pro-duction of increasingly complex jobs in-

line. The Group now has a total of 38 Speedmaster printing units and special-izes in high-finish packaging in premium quality and small volumes. This is all the more important, as pharmaceutical prod-ucts are also sold in supermarkets in Mexico. Furthermore, the group is put-ting in place plans for an eight-colour press or even a Speedmaster XL 75 Ani-color that will enable it to focus more in-tensively on international business.

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matt and gloss finish. The structure of the surface, which imitates leather, is what

IST METZ has not only made a name for itself as a manufacturer of UV units, but also as a company which is constantly coming up with new and innovative print-ed products that highlight the potential of UV technology and leave a lasting impres-sion. The latest coup is a paper folder with leather structure and seam, an attractive way to hand out flyers, brochures and print samples to customers. The folder was printed on the company’s own press using the UV sheetfed offset printing pro-cess and given a high-quality soft-touch,

immediately catches the eye and is also in-teresting to touch. To achieve this, inline embossing with an embossing plate in the printing unit was used. The embossment is so delicate and realistic that it doesn’t even show on the reverse side. Innovative measures were also taken to further pro-cess the folder. The inner section is tucked in and not glued, allowing the folder to be pulled out. The folder is closed using just one tuck-in flap. A business card can be in-serted above the closing and the folder thus given a personal touch. The overall look is completed with a delicate seam produced with a standard sewing ma-chine.

IST Metz

Printed leather, sewn paper

Another brilliant idea of IST Metz: The printed folder with leather structure

Hong Kong based Elegance Printing Group with approximately 150 employees has specialised in print products mainly for the financial sector, i.e. direct mailings, annual reports, flyers etc. Founded in 1980, the Group started its strategic diversification at the beginning of the 1990s into various business support services such as financial printing, data printing, document process-ing, business communication and transla-tion. Meanwhile, the company has suc-cessfully set up a comprehensive business model that is capable of providing a wide range of top-notch products and services in response to the needs of different in-dustries. Now, the Elegance Printing Group produces high-quality prints and reduces the reject rate with the help of a newly in-stalled LE UV system from IST METZ for inline finishing.

The decision to purchase a new UV system was made after the Heidelberg LE UV Tour to Japan last year, an event held by Heidel-berg Hong Kong and IST METZ where LE UV for sheetfed offset printing was dem-onstrated. Just one dryer is required in the printing press for all standard applications in commercial printing. As a result, the production cost and energy consumption are reduced; in addition, LE UV enables to produce high-class finishing effects on printed products. At the print shop, a UV unit from IST METZ with one UV lamp was installed at the de-livery of a Heidelberg CD102-5+L X2. Matt coated paper and special coated papers such as pearlescent cardboard are cured within fractions of a second. The second pass of papers can be done immediately without any waiting time, so that no in-

Chinese print shop installs LE UV unit for inline finishing

From left to right: Mark Jiang, IST China, Thomas Gohl, IST METZ, Wing-Keung So, Elegance Printing, Jackson Tan, Heidelberg Hong Kong, in front of the printing press

terim storage space is required and there is no need for powder to be used. There are no restrictions for the printing speed and there’s no need for a protective coating as the abrasion resistance of the UV coating is very high. Furthermore, the reject rate could be reduced significantly.

KAMA has launched a groundbreaking device for stripping and blanking die-cut sheets. Vital edge: the KAMA SBU strip-ping & blanking unit works without any job-specific stripping tools. The blanks, for example folding cartons, are stripped and separated by programmable rollers. This cuts costs and speeds up production. The new solution is perfectly suited to handle small to medium runs – in com-mercial printing or in the packaging sec-tor. The movable SBU on casters consists of a transport belt, an air blast station for small windows and hanger holes, tool-less stripping unit for the blanks, spreader and a delivery belt for stream-feeding the processed blanks. After die cutting and creasing in the KAMA die cutter, the sheets run in-line

into the SBU for stripping and blanking. The waste is shredded and led down-wards to minimize waste volume. The separated blanks are spread out and reach the delivery belt in multiple shingle streams. Nesting of blanks for optimal use of sheet in printing is possible as the SBU provides de-nesting and spreading of the blanks.Together with the new SBU, the KAMA DC and ProCut 76 die cutters provide the entire workflow from the printed sheet to the creased, embossed, die-cut and neat-ly separated single blank. Even small cut-outs, such as hanger holes, are reliably removed from the blanks. Re-tooling of

Kama

Stripping & blanking without tools

KAMA’s new SBU for in-line stripping and blanking without tools


Full house at the “Packaging” Open House: Free seats were hard to come by between the presses in the KBA customer showroom.

Finishing samples featuring micro-embossing effects on packaging gave the visitors plenty to talk about.

Chris Travis from KBA North America presented nonstop pile logistics on a Rapida 145 running at full speed in packaging production.

During the Commercial Printing event, a direct comparison of HR-UV and LED-UV was shown on an eight-colour Rapida 105 perfecting press.

The visitors could also see the world premiere of LED-UV curing in large format.

Simultaneous printing and makeready: even the experts couldn’t keep up with the pace of KBA’s Flying JobChange.

“Packaging. Competence. Network. 2014” – that was the banner which was unfurled above a very well received open house ad-dressing the boundless diversity of pack-

aging print. The event was held at KBA in Radebeul on 14 and 15 May. Some 450 us-ers from over 40 different countries ac-cepted the invitation and were treated to a comprehensive overview of the latest technologies, including a number of excit-ing innovations with potential to redefine the production of folding cartons. A series

On 26 and 27 June, Ralf Sammeck, KBA ex-ecutive vice-president for the sheetfed product house KBA, welcomed over 250 print pundits from 22 countries in Rade-beul. Under the banner “Commercial Print-ing. Competence. Network. 2014” the visi-tors were updated on the hottest topics regarding commercial printing. The first day was dedicated to theory. On the next day the participants were able to choose between various print demos which fo-cused on perfecting, on-demand printing, mass production and finishing. During the print demonstrations of typi-cal commercial print applications particu-lar attention was paid to economy, effi-ciency, finishing and innovation. A ten-colour Rapida 106 was shown produc-

KBA

Successful Open Houses for packaging ...

the die-cutter for the next job is done in a jiffy: Simply roll the SBU out of the deliv-ery unit of the die-cutter and change the chase and platen as usual from the deliv-ery side. Jobs without blank separation are delivered onto stack trolleys as nor-mal. The movable KAMA SBU stripping

Efficient finishing solution for job and packaging printers: The KAMA ProCut 76 die cutter with SBU for tool-less stripping & blanking

and blanking unit is easy to use and avail-able for B2 format (760 x 600 mm) and B3 format (530 x 400 mm).

Kama

... and commercial printing

of presentations dedicated specifically to the segments food, non-food, pharmaceu-ticals and cosmetics, following up an over-arching branch analysis from the perspec-tive of a brand-name manufacturer, served to maximise the information value of the event for every one of the gathered ex-perts.

ing a cookery book signature. This was fol-lowed by a gang forme in quick succes-sion. Four-colour posters were then produced by switching between the first and last four printing units. The other units were set-up for the subsequent job with Flying JobChange and the next job could begin immediately without any in-terruptions to production. Innovative UV drying processes were demonstrated on an eight-colour Rapida 105. The visiting print experts were able to directly com-pare the images produced and cured us-ing HR-UV and LED-UV. A further highlight on this press was inline colour measure-ment with grey-balance control from Sys-tem Brunner. The print demonstrations which took place on large-format presses focused on mass production. Typical book and calen-

dar pages on silk-matt art paper were pro-duced on a six-colour Rapida 145 with coater and delivery extension. The inks were cured by a LED-UV interdeck dryer for the first time ever in large format. The sheets were then finished with a matt aqueous coating, and with glossy UV coating following a coating change. A five-colour Rapida 145 with coating kit printed a brochure in various languages on the other side of the pressroom. With the Flying JobChange capability the plates for black ink were switched be-tween the first and second printing units during production and the language vari-ations were produced without any inter-ruptions to production after decoupling and coupling of the corresponding inking units. Both presses ran at speeds of up to 17,000sph.


KBA delivered two medium-format Rapida 106s to Stora Enso Inpac in Gaobu Town, in the Chinese province of Guangdong, for the first time only two years ago, i.e., a seven-colour press with coater and UV ca-pabilities as well as a five-colour machine with coater for conventional inks and coat-

ings. Two further presses from this high-tech series recently left the KBA plant in Radebeul for Stora Enso Inpac to be fired up in early autumn.The two identically configured six-colour presses with coater and extended deliv-ery are equipped with board-handling

kits, automatic plate changing, ink-tem-perature control, combined CleanTronic washing units, VariDry IR/TA dryers in the delivery extension and delivery, ErgoTronic console with wallscreen, Logo-Tronic CIPLink X for transfer of preset data as well as many other automated fea-tures. They have a maximum output of 18,000sph.Guo Cai, CEO of the Hebei Inpac Group and co-partner of Stora Enso Inpac, is more than satisfied with his two existing Rapida 106 presses. The three UV interdeck dryers featured in his longer UV press can be in-serted at four different docking stations depending on the job. The press also fea-tures IR/TA and UV end-of-press drying. Print quality is monitored via DensiTronic Professional with densitometric and spec-tral colour control.

KBA

Third and fourth KBA Rapida 106 for Chinese printing house

KBA sales director Dietmar Heyduck, Guo Cai CEO of the Hebei Inpac Group and co-partner of Stora Enso Inpac as well as Andreas Hatzelmann from KBA sales (l-r) in the KBA customer centre in Radebeul where Guo Cai checked out the latest developments in sheetfed offset.

Along with MIS systems from Optimus (see PrintPromotion Newsletter No 95) and PPS software belonging to the LogoTronic product range, together with partner Logi-ca Sistemi in Castel San Pietro (Italy) KBA offers a further solution for production planning and control as well as production-data capture in real time. This solution is extremely successful especially in China.It is Logica’s mission to optimise manage-ment and production processes as well as to enable full production control as a basis for strategic planning. Together with the module “DataProduction” for capturing production data in real time, the software suite which is available under the name KBA ProductivityPlus comprises a further module for production management.KBA ProductivityPlus facilitates the cap-ture of key operating data, a preview of current jobs, a view of the production sta-tus as well as monitoring the production process via a BDE terminal at the press. Press operators can log-on using smart cards or the touch-screen. Charts being

available online support the analysis of production process-es. Furthermore, the manage-ment can access data and check production in real time from outside the company via a web browser on a smartphone or tablet PC. KBA ProductivityPlus can be adapted and expanded to meet the specific needs of the com-pany in question. The options include JobManager which al-lows the user to create new jobs and import them into MIS as well as pre-press tools, a pre-flight check and FTP server management. A JDF CIP4 inter-face between DataProduction and MIS is also available.Streamlined production, data control and extensive analysis capabilities increase the productivity of the printing process. Make-ready times are reduced and precise infor-mation regarding consumables is designed

to optimise material management. A raft of print firms have already taken advan-tage of the benefits of ProductivityPlus and are using solutions from Logica. KBA has implemented over 50 systems in China alone.

Intelligent production-data capture in real time

Individual reports can be created with KBA ProductivityPlus

Innovation Graphic Arts is one of the most important and well known printers in Taipei with four of the latest Heidel-berg printing machines including pre-press, enabling the company to work in a very efficient way reducing waste to a minimum. Innovation Graphic Arts was

established by Richard Kang in the year 1996. The company values protection of the en-vironment very highly. The water used for printing is filtered in a special way, so that it is lead back directly to a big fish tank of about 5m length with a volume of about

3000 litres offering enough space for about 80 fish. In early 2013 Richard Kang approached Kolbus at the China Print 2013 show in Bei-jing to get more information on perfect binding machines. He wanted to invest in post-press equipment in order to end his

Kolbus

Kolbus-XML architecture in Taiwan


Featuring a control concept that is unique in the strapping industry, the Mosca So-niXs TR is now available in both entry-level and high-end versions, i.e., as Base and Pro models. The two versions share many of the same components. Cost-effective high-end strapping ma-chines are anything but a pipedream at Mosca. Modular design and an advanced shared component concept lower produc-tion costs – and Mosca passes these sav-ings on to industry customers.The frame, ultrasonic sealing unit, strap feeding unit and coil on the SoniXs TR-6

Base are identical to the components used in the Pro version. Both models feature the Standard-6 strap path system that is easy to maintain and enables convenient disas-sembly of strap path components without tools. The hold-down device of either model does not constitute a source of dan-ger, so both machines come with a CE marking from the factory. SoniXs TR-6 Base and Pro models can be easily inte-grated into any production line. A Mosca standard for many years, the low-emis-sion, energy-efficient SoniXs ultrasonic sealing process is unique in the industry. For industries ranging from wholesale to printing, logistics, food or pharmaceuti-cals, the SoniXs TR-6 Base and Pro models are extremely versatile and offer maxi-mum availability in all applications.The SoniXs TR-6 Base uses an MSCB-1 con-trol and can be easily operated via push-button panel with digital display. Pneumat-ic actuators ensure optimal, smooth strapping and two switch control boxes extend the range of the machine. An opti-mized chassis and cost-effective options including a pneumatic hold-down device or package stop make the SoniXs TR-6 Base a versatile solution for virtually all strapping applications. Additional options are availa-ble when the SoniXs TR-6 Base is combined with the SoniXs TRI-6 Base into a tandem machine capable of cross strapping stacked

packages in the conveying direction. The SoniXs TR-6 Pro version features a special-ized machine control system with opera-tion via HMI touch panel. Operators can easily set various machine component pa-rameters with the user-friendly Mosca software interface. The software gener-ates a detailed error display with trouble-shooting support. Diagnostics are handled via online remote maintenance directly from Mosca headquarters at Waldbrunn

Mosca

Pioneering automated strapping machine in Base and Pro models

The fully automated Mosca SoniXs TR-6 Base and Pro strapping machines are equipped with a Standard-6 strap path system. Both models deliver top quality strapping results with maximum process reliability.

The high-performance SoniXs TR-6 Pro enables variable settings for each product on the line.

Sophia Hsu and Fred Spangel from Kolbus with Kang Tsan-Huan, owner of Innovation Graphic Arts, as well as employee Tin Yeh at the new Kolbus perfect binding line

dependence on outside providers with poor schedule integrity and quality prob-lems. He also wanted to be able to produce world class perfect binding work including PUR glue application and at the same time achieve fully automatic data flow between his pre-press and the post-press machines. The data of a job from the pre-press should be sent directly to the soft cover machines including the capability to see the actual status of the machine, bar code matching to assure the correct production, storing of the data for repeat jobs and automatic management report preparation to get a feedback of the efficiency of the post-press production. Initially, it looked like a “Mission Impossible”. Upon careful analysis, Innovation Graphic Arts concluded that the 360 degree com-patibility and open systems architecture featured by Kolbus opened the way for the company to install the perfect bind-ing capabilities that their marketing ex-perts demanded while completely meet-ing the demands of the information systems managers for perfect integration with their existing installed base of ma-

chines. Kolbus were capable of offering this connectivity and compatibility even though Innovation had never consulted Kolbus when purchasing their original press and pre-press equipment. A very thorough training of the customer’s op-erators and demonstration of the data transfer was conducted at the Kolbus fac-tory in Germany after the machine’s as-sembly. Innovation Graphic Arts’ new perfect binding line, which arrived in Taipei in late

June 2014, consists of a 20 station gather-ing machine and a perfect binder KM 600 with a production speed of 7000 books/h with integrated glue application control, back lining station, interchangeable gluing stations for hot melt and PUR, front cut-ting FA 650 and a three-knife-trimmer HD 153M. This installation has catapulted Innova-tion Graphic Arts into a position of world-wide leadership in workflow integration from pre-press to bindery.

Kolbus


Mosca was one of the companies showing their products at the joint VDMA/PrintPro-motion stand at the Expoprint in Sao Pau-lo. The company presented its fully auto-mated tandem machine EVOLUTION SoniXs TAI-6 Base. Another strapping ma-chine on show was the EVOLUTION MP-6 B with powered belts which is also of mod-

Mosca at Expoprint 2014

The latest system for longitudinal gluing from Planatol System allows for economic fold-gluing of extended formats with broad sheet productions in the newspaper press. With fold-gluing of different special formats such as “Superpanorama” or “Give-me-5” Planatol gives the printers new possibilities to respond to the tighter competition in the printing industry. The modular fold-gluing system for media supply of up to 8 applicator heads can be extended with additional functions at any time. It can be configured according to the customer’s individual requirement and it

meets the demands of smaller and medi-um sized web offset presses. The system with a 15‘‘ touch screen operating panel is ergonomic and space-saving and it can be placed anywhere near the press. The me-dia are fed with pumps directly from can-isters; this ensures easy handling without standstills. In order to avoid soiling of the folder when the paper web shifts, Planatol offers the additional function of web edge scanning as optional equipment, which, beside paper web monitoring, ensures ex-tremely high process reliability. Fold-glues from Planatol are perfectly matched to the

Planatol

Fold-gluing of special formats

Combijet systems are suitable for fold-gluing of special formats; the systems are integrated in web offset presses of renowned press manufac-turers and printing centres.

At the PACE Days in May this year, POLAR presented the innovative EasyLoad 7S loading aid. This new product is an addi-

Polar

A global innovation - the EasyLoad

The EasyLoad loading aid is particularly interesting where still manual jogging systems are employed.

in Germany. This is made possible by the machine’s network capability. If necessary, the unit can be controlled by a remote computer and is fully prepared for Indus-try 4.0 machine intercommunications. De-vice status can be clearly displayed at any time with a few mouse clicks. Even soft-ware updates are delivered via the Inter-

net. This makes operation easier and more efficient.The key to high-performance operation of the SoniXs TR-6 Pro is a versatile strapping editor that enables variable settings for each product on the line. Customers can define a wide range of strapping positions and save these parameters as formulas that include transport speed, strap tension

and package dimensions. Strapping pro-grams independently select these formu-las according to predefined events that can be activated by external interfaces, sensor signals or QR codes. The TR-6 So-niXs Pro is available in four different frame sizes and straps up to 45 packages per minute with six different strap widths ranging from 5 to 12 millimetres.

tion to the jogging portfolio and bridges the gap between manual and automatic jogging. EasyLoad is the ergonomic and

also inexpensive solution for preparing jogged cutting reams. POLAR developed the EasyLoad loading aid in collaboration with a Japanese customer who has been using the loading aid in pro-duction with great success for some time. Japan is famous for its high quality stand-ards. For this reason the customer made a conscious decision not to use an automat-ic jogging system, but was keen to make life easier for operators when they load the joggers with material of size 126 x 164. Instead of the operator having to lift and transport the material and bear its weight when the jogger is loaded, the EasyLoad with its gripper system does the heavy work. As the operator is actively involved

Mosca

ular design. The conveying speed is signal-controlled. It can be easily integrated into existing production lines and provides a cost-efficient entry into the fully automat-ic way of strapping. In order to enable and show the cross strapping possibility, two machines of this type were exhibited con-nected by a turning device. In this constel-lation, a performance of up to 25 packages per minute can be achieved.

Almost a classic among Mosca machines is the RO-M Fusion. These automatic strap-ping machines have been successful on the international market for years. With its high strap capacity, their super soft strap-ping and numerous options such as elec-tronic control and the uncomplicated strap coil change and threading, the RO-M Fusion belongs to the most dependable strapping machines.

gluing system and to processing from smallest nozzles at highest speed.


The Cracow-based Polish printing house Multipress with 120 staff trusts in POLAR LabelSystem DC-11 for producing its vodka labels. This highly-automated system for the in-line production of banded die-cut labels shows an impressive flexibility. Due to the large range of sizes, Multipress is now able to produce all its formats on this system. However, the company not only produces die-cut labels, but also deploys the DC-11 LabelSystem for efficiently man-

Getting vodka labels into shape

Andrzei Rabenda, Managing Director of Multipress (l), and Christian Steiner, Regional Sales Manager at Polar, in front of a Polar Labelsystem DC-11

ufacturing square-cut labels. Compucut® integrates both the precutting machine which cuts the label material to strips as well as the automated strip cutter Autocut 25. The sheet layout saved as a CIP file is directly sent to Compucut® via the Heidel-berg Prinect Workflow. Compucut® then generates the cutting programme and sends it directly to the cutting machines. In a highly automated process with mini-mum staff, POLAR’s LabelSystem DC-11 can produce up to 960 packs within 60 minutes. A job change takes only 15 min-utes. Thanks to the OnePunchRegister only one pack is required to adjust the cutting die to the printed image.

Warsaw printing house Perfekt S.A., one of the leading industrial printers in Po-land, has replaced the previously existing cutting equipment with a state-of-the-art CuttingSystem PACE from POLAR. Per-fekt used to work with POLAR equipment already. As the biggest advantage of the new ma-chine, the company sees the increase in productivity by 30% on average, in the night shifts by even up to 50%. In addi-tion, the manning on the cutting system

First PACE cutting system in Poland

State-of-the-art cutting in Poland: at Perfekt in Warsaw

could be reduced from 2 operators down to 1. Perfekt SA employs more than 130 personnel. Its main products are books of

all kinds and with additional services like embossing, inserting or CD/DVD gluing.

Ravensburger is a leading supplier of games, toys and jigsaw puzzles in Europe. Its products are manufactured in Ravens-burg (Germany) and in the Czech Republic and are sent from there all over the world. Czech Ravensburger Karton s.r.o. with ap-prox. 150 employees relies on the cutting quality ensured by POLAR and recently in-stalled POLAR’s high-speed cutter N 115 PRO, since the previously used cutting ma-chine no longer met the higher quality re-quirements. Cutting the pasted and lined materials was particularly demanding, be-

cause they tend to curl and do not lie flat. The operator working with the POLAR high-speed cutter now has various fea-tures that help to maintain a high level of quality: Swivel backgauge – if the printed image is not positioned straight on the printed sheet, the material can be rotated parallel to the desired cutting line using the motorized angle compensation feature; tilting backgauge – overcut and undercut tolerances can be compensated by chang-ing the vertical position of the backgauge with regard to the knife; hold-down clamp

at the backgauge – if the uppermost sheets of the ream to be cut are not level, they may slip away when the material is laid against the backgauge, but the hold-down clamp helps to lock these upper sheets on the ream; Fixomat – converts the surface lay mark to a point-type lay mark thus im-proving the alignment of cutting material with convex edges and preventing it from sliding out of place or tipping over; hold-down clamp in front of the knife prevents the cut products from getting mixed up or drifting away during the cutting process.

An important jigsaw piece

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in the process, he is able to intervene and therefore ensure a high cutting ream qual-ity. In addition the system offers a high level of flexibility, as both left-hand and right-hand lay is possible. The stack lift elevates the material stack to the required level which can be adjust-

ed to suit the respective operator. The height of the required ream (50 mm max.) is determined by the operator. Then the ream is placed in the gripper where the material is separated from the remaining stack, assisted by compressed air. The op-erator can then effortlessly transport the

ream in the gripper to the jogger. While the operator airs and aligns the material, the gripper automatically moves back to its home position in the stack lift. Airing of the material is assisted by special airing slots in the rear gauge. EasyLoad can be retrofitted to existing cutting systems.


P’S network, located in Shizuoka Japan, is not a usual printing house. They are very successful in selling sales promotion mate-rials via the Internet. Part of their success is the POLAR CuttingSystem PACE. This sys-tem is integrated into the digital workflow via Compucut® which streamlines the pro-duction. P’S network was established in 2003 by Hi-royuki Yamada who started with not much background in the printing industry, but “Transparency in costs” mind. So he has used MIS with JDF-based workflow from the beginning. Today a fleet of the state-

of-art Heidelberg equipment from pre-press, press to post-press is running within the Prinect workflow.At P`S network, the PACE features auto-mated loading, turning and waste disposal processes. Interaction for both core com-ponents Autoturn and Autotrim permits automation of the first five cuts (four-side and separating cut). While the cutting sys-tem carries out these cutting operations automatically, the operator is able to pre-pare the next ream in the automatic jog-ger. The system can therefore run continu-ously with only one operator.

P`S network founded by Hiroyuki Yamada (pictured here) stands out from the usual printing houses.

MarquipWardUnited, Inc., a Barry- Wehmiller company, has completed the acquisition of the operations of Körber AG’s Papersystems companies E.C.H. Will GmbH, Pemco Inc. and Kugler-Womako

E.C.H. Will

Take-over and rebranding

At interpack Windmöller & Hölscher (W&H) surprised the packaging industry by launch-ing a newly developed, integrated high-per-formance bagging machine, consisting of the FFS machine TOPAS SL, the layer pal-letizer PLATINUM and the stretch hood ma-chine ARGON. Whereas at the booth, the three individual machines were only on static display, about 160 customers from 29 countries saw the complete line in full op-eration at the inhouse exhibition EXPO staged at the company’s headquarters in Lengerich. W&H is now in a position to supply ma-chines covering the entire packaging pro-cess, from the silo outlet to the full pallet, ready for dispatch – with outstanding per-formance and a palletizing capacity of up to 2800 bags/h, fine-tuned to the speed of the TOPAS SL. TOPAS SL is the youngest model of W&H’s comprehensive machinery programme for the commercially efficient bagging of free flowing bulk solids. It differenti-ates itself conceptually and in many de-tails from its predecessor, starting with the significantly improved accessibility of-fered through the open frame structure and the large, transparent safety doors. Additionally, the newly designed operator touch screen is as easy and intuitive to use as a smart phone. The intensified top and

bulk goods. With comparable equipment for PVC applications embodied in the pre-decessor model, W&H already obtained a leading market position in this sector. An-other highlight of the TOPAS SL showcased was the completely redesigned net weigh-er, which excels with large service open-ings and a rounded enclosure, making cleaning and maintenance child’s play. Special versions of this weigher include equipment for the bagging of powdery products as well as a washable model.

Windmöller & Hölscher

A full-range supplier in the FFS segment

With an output of more than 2600 sacks per hour, the Topas SL which had its debut only recently is extremely fast.

Polar

Successful POLAR PACE in Japan

GmbH. The companies have become part of the newly-formed BW Papersystems. BW Papersystems employs nearly 1500 team members worldwide and offers innovative solutions for the most com-plex mill to the smallest converter. With the new platform, machines for the manufacture of passports as well as ma-

chines for stationery manufacturers and bookbinders were added. Furthermore, MarquipWardUnited’s corrugating and finishing lines are part of the comprehen-sive BW Papersystems product offerings. As part of the integration, E.C.H. Will and Pemco have been rebranded as Will-Pemco.

bottom seam cooling gives much shorter processing cycles, while at the same time maintaining consistently high strength of the seams. Another modern element is the extent of electronic support systems, of which the new data messaging system is but one ex-ample. Beyond text instructions, it offers graphic representations and videos on the screen to help operators and service per-sonnel locate and resolve problems on site. A wide size range, universal sealing tech-nology, diverse dosing methods, highly ac-curate weighing technology and extensive additional options leave nothing to wish for. TOPAS SL’s compact construction is perfect for both mobile and stationary bagging. Rail and wheel platforms allow efficient bagging of a variety of products or batches, as are seen on the agendas in logistics terminals. Differing bulk density, particle size and flow properties of prod-ucts to be bagged are taken care of by tai-lored product feeding and weighing sys-tems as well as by the specially adapted design of the drop chute and the filling hopper. Since its launch, many optional extras have been added to the TOPAS SL. The ma-chine on show at interpack featured the special equipment that allows for almost absolutely dust-free bagging of powdery


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360° register raster adjustment system,several motifs can be placed on a singleprinting plate which, on the one hand, re-duces printing plate consumption and, atthe same time, reduces setup times.

A further advantage: Installation of thema-chine incorporated in the plant is virtuallyby means of plug & play. It is ready for pro-duction within the shortest of times. Thenew W+D 232 is thus not only one of the

most productive and reliable 2-color offsetprinting machines for envelopes on themarket but also a worthwhile investment,in particular, for producers of transactional,transpromo and direct mail orders.

Established in 1971, W+D-Langhammerhas been part of Winkler+Dünnebier AG(W+D) since 2008 as an independent en-terprise, also cooperating with the KörberPaperLink companies E.C.H. Will, FabioPerini, Kugler-Womako, Pemco and KPLPackaging and drawing on the synergiesderived from the expertise that each com-pany contributes to the Group.W+D-Lang-

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Thanks to its unique concept, the central impression (CI) VISTAFLEX C, the top model of W&H`s range of CI printing machines, continues to hold a special position. The new 2,200 mm 8-colour VISTAFLEX CX was demonstrated live in production at 800 m/min. to visitors from the trade at the W&H in-house EXPO at Lengerich headquarters on 8 and 9 May as well as 12 and 13 May. Outstanding print quality at speeds of up to 800 m/min as well as extremely short job change times, also with large size print designs enabled by the innovative VISTA-PORT robot handling system, are the fea-tures that make the VISTAFLEX CX a unique system. Ambitious printers are capable of completing more than 20 job change-overs a day. The decisive role in this process is played by the VISTA-PORT, which – fully automati-cally – loads the plate cylinders and anilox rolls into the colour decks. The VISTA-PORT allows several production runs to be pre-

planned and prepared in advance. The system optimizes the sequence of orders and positions the plate sleeves and anilox rollers for the next job while the ma-chine is running. In this way job change times of less than 5 minutes can be achieved. The essential benefits of the VISTAFLEX as compared to conven-tional sleeve machines, are bound to carry even greater weight when it comes to the VISTAFLEX CX with its maximum printing width of 2200 mm and maximum repeat length of 1250 mm. While wide print cylinders and rollers are found to increasingly cause problems due to the dimensions and weights to be han-dled, the change process of the VISTAFLEX

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New VISTAFLEX for super-wide printing widths

CX runs fully independently and is not af-fected by such difficulties.There is no need for adapters to accommo-date repeat length. The anilox rolls are laid out as change shafts, which means that sleeve systems are dispensed with, while at the same time tolerances and anilox costs are reduced.

The innovative VISTA-PORT robot handling system makes the VISTA-FLEX CX a unique system for production speeds of up to 800 m/min.

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Printers‘ GuideTraining Information & News in Printing and Paper Converting Technology

No 96 • September 2014

Newsletter • No 96 • September 2014

For industrial print production, above all electrophotography (in everyday lan-guage: laser printing) and inkjet printing are of importance.Electrophotography was invented by the American Chester F. Carlson, the patent application for it was filed in 1937. The first successful test resulting in the very first photocopy was already made in 1938.The technical implementation of the pat-ent was only carried out in 1947 by the Haloid Company which launched the first commercial photocopier in 1949. In 1961, the Haloid Company was renamed Xerox. In Germany, the licence was granted to the English Rank Group, whereupon Rank Xerox was established. Therefore, xerox machine and/or xerography are often used as terms for the process and the

copying device. Another name under which this technology is known is “laser printing”. At the very heart of electrophotography is a dynamically rewritable printing forme (drum, plate, disk). This is a so-called pho-to semiconductor: a photo semiconduc-tor drum with an aluminium core is partly also designed as a flexible band. These carriers are coated with a photo semicon-ductor layer. The layer mostly consists of organic photo-conductors (OPCs), in some cases, amor-phous silicone or selenium-containing compounds are used. In such layers, free charge carriers are generated under incident light; the more incident light, the higher the conductivity – and this effect is used in electrophotography.The electrophotographic printing process

consists of the follow-ing steps, also see Figure 1:

1� LoadingThe photo semiconduc-tor layer is statically charged by means of a corona. The corona is a thin wire to which sev-eral thousand volts are applied. This ionisizes the air, and the loads move to the photocon-ductor surface.2� ExposureIn the second step, the photo semiconductor surface is imaged. This

is done with a laser beam or with LED ar-rays (LED = Light Emitting Diode) which are arranged as bars.Due to the incident light, the load on the drum surface changes, a latent image is created. This image is not visible; it con-sists of load differences on the photo sem-iconductor surface.3� DevelopingNow, the latent image is made visible by colours. A toner powder which is charged oppositely to the image areas is applied via a developing unit so that the image be-comes visible.A precondition is that the toner is charge-able. The different types of toners will be dealt with below. 4� TransferNow, the printing image is on the photo semiconductor layer and must be trans-ferred onto the substrate. Here again, co-ronas and, thus, electrostatic effects are used in order to get the toner onto the substrate.For the transfer process, too, there are dif-ferent technological variants.5� FixingThe toner is held on the substrate by elec-trostatic forces and could simply be wiped off mechanically. Therefore, it must be fixed by means of pressure and heat (iron-ing effect), i.e., it must be melted and bonded to the substrate. 6� Cleaning/dischargingDuring the transfer process, the toner is not transferred completely; it may well be that there are still toner particles and re-sidual loads on the photo semiconductor surface. Since the drum is exposed with

Digital printingby Birgit Cholewa (azp Chemnitz)

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every new rotation, it must be cleaned both mechanically and electrically. This means that any residual loads on the full surface are discharged by light and toner particles are removed by means of brush-es. Then, the surface is ready for the next ex-posure process.This also shows the great advantage of digital printing – due to the dynamic print-ing forme, it is possible to create a new printed image with every printing cycle so that “single-copy run” production is possi-ble and reasonable.As far as the use of the electrophoto-graphic printing method in practice is con-cerned, there are different technological variants.Exposure:As already mentioned, there are two vari-ants, i.e. laser beam and LED array. Ma-chines with laser technology are equipped with complex optical devices; most of these machines are expensive, but thanks to the laser beam they enable to achieve sharper and finer edges and higher resolu-tions (e.g., Xerox). Devices with LED tech-nology are more robust, but the quality in fine details is sub-optimal (Minolta, Xeikon).Types of toners:Depending on the printing system, differ-ent types of toners are used. In general, we distinguish between dry and liquid toners. (Figure 2)Dry toners are mostly two-component toners. They consist of the colour pig-ments and carrier particles. The carrier particles (approx. 50-150μm) can be charged (they mostly consist of ferric ox-ide) and transport the toner to the image area. These particles are transported back into the developer circulation. The toner particles (approx.5-20μm) consist of poly-mers, colour pigments and additives. One-component toners are rather rare. Since they must be chargeable, they are bigger and it is not possible to achieve clean colours due to the necessary iron content. The ink film thicknesses which are achieved with the dry toners are approx. 3-8μm. A frequent problem is that the dry toner does not set properly, but lies on the paper. On the one hand, the impression produced in this way is not similar to that achieved in offset – which is expected for many print products. On the other hand, this causes also problems in print finish-ing, e.g. during folding when the toner sur-face cracks. The machinery manufacturers consistently endeavour to improve the toners, one example is the chemical EA (Emulsion Aggregation) toner with smaller and more uniform toner particles due to a special production process. (Figure 3)In liquid toners, the colour pigments are suspended in a dielectric liquid so that smaller toner particles (approx. 1-3μm) are

possible; during the drying process, the li-quid evaporates; the particles partly set and enable to produce offset-like ink film thicknesses. The handling of the toner and the ink transfer process are, however, more complicated than with the dry toner. Transfer variants:In many devices, the toner is transferred from the drum direct to the substrate.Some manufacturers use the offset princi-ple in which the blanket has the function of an intermediate carrier. This enables, e.g., to print on materials with an uneven surface.

Often all four toner inks (CMYK) are first of all collected on a transport belt and then transferred from there onto the substrate in one single step. This ensures better col-our register.Multi-pass/Single-pass:In multi-pass systems, all four process inks are exposed with one exposure unit one after the other, i.e. the photo semi-conductor drum needs one rotation per colour. Single-pass machines have one colour per exposure unit and, as a result, are signifi-cantly faster.Fixing:The toner is always pressed and fused to the paper by means of heated elastic fix-

ing rollers. To prevent toner from staying on the rollers, silicone oil is used as a sepa-rating agent – which, however, often also produces a mostly undesired gloss. Mod-ern devices have separators in the colour toner which mitigate this effect.The electrophotographic systems pres-ently offered on the market are available in different quality levels which, of course, is reflected in the price.The lower priced segment, the so-called office systems, is fit for professional print-ing only to a limited extent. The colour cannot be controlled (no calibration/line-

arization possible, no profiles can be stored). Furthermore, paper guiding is not consistent; the paper is transported by means of rubber rollers without guidance so that register-true prints are not possi-ble. (Colour register, register on the indi-vidual sheets, register for front and back-side printing)High-quality systems, on the other hand, have features that we know from the conventional printing machines: Side lays for the positioning of the sheets, double-sheet detection, the RIPS are prepared for colour management, inline colour measurement and control; there are redampening units after fixing and smoothing units.

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Figure 2: The different kinds of toners

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