Steve Dunwell, managing director of manroland Australasia pronounced himself pleased with the company’s approach of having no metal on the stand. He says, “We had plenty of time to talk with customers and discuss value added solutions. We are focusing on the business of print, with customers keen to discuss moving away from commodity print into new added value opportunities.”
However manroland did announce some two dozen upgrades to its flagship R700 series, and launched its Futureproof programme, which guarantees that any press bought from now on, will be able to be upgraded with the latest developments for at least five years. Dunwell says, “Printers will have peace of mind knowing that their press investment cannot be overtaken by a model launched a year later.”
Among the products discussed was autoprint, which the company says increases production efficiency through automated and predefined work steps. For example, autoprint smart features automated operating sequences and series printing functions in job preparation designed to optimise production workflow. The company claims a productivity increase of up to 15 percent, depending on the job structure.
The Roland 900 XXL is a format 8 perfecting press that prints 64 four-color A4 pages in one pass, slit in the middle before the delivery and stacked in two perfect piles for finishing on standard folding machines, according to manroland. It is aimed at commercial and publications printing.
Other features include a maximum sheet size of 1,310 x 1,870 mm, all cylinders of the sheet turning device are double-size, supported by a suction bar in the storage drum that tensions the sheet trailing edge, and it uses video cameras to monitor the sheet turning process and sheet travel between the printing units. An optional inline slitter that slits the sheet down the middle is positioned over the delivery drum, densitometrical and colorimetrical measuring and the PPL plate changing system. Other options include inline colour measuring, a fully-automated plate changing and a reel cutting device.
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