Heidelberg says the latest Stahlfolder will enable printers to achieve the ‘best folding results’ cost-effectively for flyers up to half-size.
Heidelberg ANZ post-press product manager Brian Evans says the CH 56 KT fills a hole in the manufacturer’s product range and will attract A2 and A3 commercial and digital printers.
“It will appeal to customers looking to produce short runs in B2 format cost-effectively, while still ensuring added value and quality control as part of their own offset and/or digital production processes,” he says.
The CH 56 KT is the first new finishing machine produced by Heidelberg since it scrapped all its finishing lines except the Stahlfolder last year to cut costs.
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Heidelberg says the new machine is built with ‘end-to-end intelligent automation’ and can complete five repeat folding jobs of 500 to 1000 copies each.
“Stahlfolder CH 56 KT folding machines incorporate performance enhancing technology such as extra grip folding rollers, Tremat sheet separator, and the slip-free gear drive for the folding rollers, which makes it simpler to use, ensure high folding quality and suitable for short-run applications,” Heidelberg says.
“The operator only needs to enter the new job on the touchscreen for the front edge stop in the cross-fold unit to automatically move into position. The buckle plate and folding rollers are set to the right format and grammage.”
The company says the automated parallel folding unit is accompanied for the first time in this format by an automated cross-fold unit, which achieves short makeready times.
It says this feature simplifies the operator’s work when setting up small folding jobs, as there is no need for any manual intervention.
The folder can be customized with various options and modules to meet printer’s individual needs, ‘for example with two feeder types and 4 or 6 buckle plates in the parallel folding unit’.
Evans says the new folding machine, which is also available in a CO2-neutral version, will be available late this year.
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