Bernard Cheong, managing director of Cyber, the Ryobi distributor in Australia and New Zealand says, “Everything on the Ryobi stand is a workhorse, ready and available to help printers make money. The new LED-UV means a 90 per cent saving on power costs, which are now a real issue in Australia and New Zealand. There is also no need for a coating unit, and no VOCs emitted from the ink.”

The new LED-UV Printing System has instant curing and is designed to deliver high-value-added printing opportunities, as well as other applications like printing onto film. The two models with the LED-UV Printing System and shown in demonstrations were the Ryobi 928P, an A1-size, eight-colour, high-speed offset press that delivers instant UV-curing perfecting printing, and the Ryobi 755G, a B2-size, five-colour, high-speed offset press with a newly-developed varnish coating type LED-UV curing unit.

Cheong says, “The A1 press demonstration is producing 200 16pp brochures, which are folded and stitched on the stand, in less than 12 minutes. Digital presses would still be printing the job at 12 minutes, and of course they don’t have offset quality.”

At drupa 2008, Ryobi exhibited the world’s first LED-UV Printing System for sheet-fed offset printing presses.

The UV casting and foiling system, developed for the RYOBI 1050, holograms and foiling in a single unit, and can also do chemical embossed printing. At drupa 2012, Ryobi is demonstrating anti-forgery hologram processing, adapting such casting technology as hidden and micro text and 3D-expression through lens-type hologram patterns

The Ryobi 525GX A3-plus five-colour press is demonstrating quick processing of small lot, high quality colour jobs from envelopes and postcards to catalogues and leaflets, featuring it integrated water-based varnish coating.

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