One answer that Gallus firmly believes in is to go from “Craftsmanship to Automated Production Systems”, where focus is put on manufacturing processes and achieving the ultimate level of automation in the whole value chain. This was put into action recently when Gallus USA held a customer event on April 20, 2004 at its demonstration facility in Philadelphia. The topic of the day was industrialisation for the narrow web industry.

Gallus displayed the capabilities of its RCS 330 totally servo-driven press and showed off the ability of flying imprints and how that will impact industrialisation of the narrow web industry.

The Gallus RCS 330 started printing a four-colour job, while still in full production and at high printing speeds. The pressman changed over three colours on the press, which Gallus says has never been done before, and started printing a second job. As the press was printing the second job, all that was required was the push of a button for the first job to start printing again in full registration.

Customers were so impressed with the demonstration that two RCS 330’s were ordered before the event was even over by two different customers. Hub Labels out of Maryland bought the press right off the demonstration floor. This will be Hub Label’s second purchase of an RCS 330 within 18 months. In Europe, the RCS 330 is also making a strong impact, with customers purchasing their second RCS 330 in Germany, France and Switzerland. For more information, please contact .

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