The Schawk company is a world leader in creating and realising strong brands and has ordered the large format ROLAND 900, XXL, with coating unit to produce print for its retailing and film customers at its printing site in Los Angeles, California.
Schawk settled on the MAN Roland solution for its “expertly composed product package encompassing advance consultancy with printing tests at reference-customer plants, a carefully devised chain of processes up to installation, and the comprehensive after-sales service.”.
Top printing quality is demanded by Schawk whose jobs require multicolour printing with special colours at high ink density every day in the production of film posters.
At MAN Roland, the task of implementing a press project of such dimensions is entrusted to a central project manager in Offenbach. His counterpart in the USA looks after the customer at the site of the future installation. This, says MAN Roland, makes for a high degree of flexibility in realising individual customer wishes during the planning stage.
In the case of the ROLAND 900, XXL being built for for Schawk, the design and construction of the press is anything but an everyday affair for MAN Roland, as project manager Marc Hinz confirms. “Eight XXL printing units must run without vibration, and print up to 11,000 sheets per hour in true register – this productivity is absolutely on a record-breaking scale. Such performance can only be achieved by close cooperation with the customer, intensive testing and perfectly fabricated components.”
A press project tailored to customer requirements such as this one involves many individual specifications. The nonstop delivery of this press, for example, is converted to bundle operation as desired. Each detail is tested with nothing left to chance. For example, cooling devices such as will be eventually used in the US have to be specially provided for the tests in Germany. In the end, Schawk itself will test-print the press in Mainhausen. Because high standards of quality and absolute reliability of delivery are of paramount importance – the entire process chain is geared to these essentials.
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