Komori has released its newest press, the Lithrone GX944, a 44-inch offset printing press which is aimed at both commercial printing and package printing.
It will be in Australia in the coming year, available through distributor Print & Pack.
David Gunn, northern region and New Zealand sales manager, Print and Pack Australia says, “Komori has not said when it is available in Australia but it should be soon,” he says.
Gunn says the Lithrone GX944 is a new model and this particular model is only available as a perfecting press. The company describes it as the ultimate one-pass double-sided printing press. The 44-inch H-UV·UV-equipped features single-edge gripping and eliminates sheet reversal.
It is designed to deliver high quality, short turnaround, high speed, stability and reduced waste in double-sided printing. It will come in a thin sheet specification for commercial printing and a cardboard specifction for packaging printing
Komori says that single-edge gripping makes the margin on the tail edge of the sheets unnecessary, enabling paper costs to be cut by minimising the sheet size. It adds that eliminating sheet reversal ensures stable sheet transport that can handle light or heavy stocks through the use of four double-size transfer cylinders. Front/back plate imaging is in the same direction, just as with single-sided presses.
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The company adds that, thanks to the 44-inch maximum sheet size, users can ensure high quality and high productivity in publication printing (magazines and books) and in duplex package printing.
The press offers a maximum printing speed of 15,000 sheets per hour. Shorter makeready comes from the KHS-AI 1 integrated start-up control system and the H-UV or·UV curing system means powderless instant drying. It provides thin sheet specification for commercial printing and cardboard specification for package printing.
Options include the A-APC asynchronous automatic plate changer; the PDC-SX spectral print density control SX model; and the PQA-S print quality assessment system for sheetfed.
A range of other options such as PDC-SX and PQA-S V5 with various functions (print quality inspection, density control, automatic register adjustment) are available.
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