Gerard Wintle, head of press sales at local distributor Ferrostaal says, “Komori has spent a long time at the top end of the market. However the company has seen the need to have a press that offers a lower investment schedule, but still offers a quality print.

“The new Enthrone is built to the same exacting engineering standards as the Lithrone range, it comes with double sized impression and transfer cylinders, prints up to 0.6mm thick stock, has automated roller wash and automated blanket wash.

Wintle says, “It doesn’t have all the features of the Lithrone, but is priced at a point where it will compete in the market with late model used machines, so providing printers with a new alternative, with all the benefits that delivers.”

The 13,000iph Enthrone comes with an integrated control system, located at the delivery end. It also ha a free gripper system, enabling a wide range of stocks to travel through the press.

Komori also launched a new UV printing solution, KHUV, which Wintle says produces no ozone impacting materials, needs no extraction and doesn’t need any cooling, either from water or air. Just two lamps are needed on a press, with a single lamp capable of ‘drying’ 400 per cent colour (solid cyan, yellow magenta and black) at 16,000sph. Wintle says, “In Australia it will particularly appeal to packaging printers.”

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