However, the company says, after the 100 day review, Langley has authorised the continued production of its entire product range from the Pico 50 to the size 8 Roland 900 XXL. The company has also signed up for Benny Landa’s Nano printing technology, but this won’t be available for two years. The company says its main strategy involves adding processes inline to its printing presses, as technology advances continue to make it possible to do more.
Centre stage at drupa sees the Roland 700 HiPrint with Inline Foiler. It also comes with a hybrid inline inkjet printing system, with heads provided by Atlantic Zeiser, for inline variable data printing. Presses with inkjet will be available within 12 months.
The eight-colour Roland 700 HiPrint LV at the show features a new generation indexed InlineFoiler system that manroland says will show savings of up to 50 per cent of metal foil; an upgraded top speed of 17.000sph; automatic plate changing happens; a print quality measuring and regulation system using both densitometry and colorimetry; a new version of InlineInspector 2.0 equipped with pdf verification down to 4 pts text; the press is raised on a 550mm plinth and equipped with special cardboard package; the complete press and the coating unit with extended delivery is equipped with UV interdeck and end of press drying from the latest generation; and non-stop systems for feeder and delivery. An 18,000sph model is available.
The company also announced a new version of the Roland 900, many based on the Roland 900, XXL. Features of the new Roland 900 include the feeder and delivery systems designed for the Roland 900, XXL which allow the press to run at the standard rate of 14.000 s/h, which can be upgraded up to 16.000 s/h; a non-stop-feeder and AUPASYS material logistics option; a suction head suspension; an extended pick-up suction stroke for sheet separation; new bearings for impression cylinders and transferters designed for the higher maximum speed and a new ink duct roller control, with smooth load starting torque for stable ink transfer; a two-fold ink flow switch mechanism for ink train separation.
The coating unit has a reinforced Anilox roller (diameter 286.7mm) and reinforced external bearings with a large chambered duct blades system. A quick change clamp has two separate clamping systems – one for the use of pre-barred blankets and the second for the use of coating plates and a switching device for the coating pump station accelerates the changeover of the coating flow with an optimised valve station. The company claims faster makereadies. The sheet braking device is divided in three suction zones offering stable sheet travel with narrow formats. The new optional non-stop system, Rollomat, sits underneath the sheet brake reducing the drop height and optimizing pile access. For presses with five or more printing/coating units, there is an enhanced main drive.
Visitors to the stand at drupa can speak to the company’s experts about its value added services: printservices, which covers technical support, including process analysis, training, project management, maintenance and service contracts, upgrades on existing equipment, remote service and spare and wear parts.; printcom, a full range of factory certified consumables that increase the efficiency of the printing process as well as production reliability; printnetwork, which provides all the networking and computer integrated manufacturing solutions from manroland sheetfed; and printadvice, an advisory service. It has opened an online store that offers customers individualised wear and spare parts management with shopping lists, convenient ordering procedures and fast deliveries. The store links directly to the console of the press, which will only request the relevant parts for the specific press to which it is linked.
The company has invited visitors to its Print Technology Centre in Offenbach, where they can view four further Roland presses in all formats up to XXL.
Following drupa 2012, manroland will roll out more innovations for the Roland 700 range including a new fully automatic non-stop system for the feeder of the HiPrint HS and DirectDrive; blanket change in the coating unit simultaneously with plate change and roller wash-up saving precious make-ready time on the DirectDrive model; new additions to the InlineColorPilot – the print quality measuring and regulation system integrated inside the press – which is now capable of controlling and adjusting the register automatically and also producing quality reports based on colorimetry; two versions of the InlineInspector 2.0 with one or four cameras capable of checking the printed image of every single sheet and compare to PDF with 200dpi accuracy or 4pt text; the QuickChangeColor Self Learn 2.0 intelligent color zone pre-setting for waste reduction; and a new press console and user interface requiring less operator attention and offering easier handling is also unveiled at drupa 2012 as a ‘new design’ concept model.
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