Komori has adopted ’Kando’, the Japanese term for ’Beyond Expectations’, as its Ipex theme to reflect the broad range of press management and printing technology on show on its extensive 1500sqm booth (Hall 5 Stand B10). The company will demonstrate more printing units on show than ever before, including multi colour sheet and web perfecting presses producing a wide variety of value added creative applications.
Komori UK sales director, Neil Sutton says Ipex heralds an important new phase for Komori with the launch of two new high performance presses with the accent on perfecting, automation, productivity and workflow integration.
“In today’s highly competitive market, printers are looking to streamline productivity, increase cost competitiveness, and enter new markets by offering a broader portfolio of innovative services,” says Sutton.
“Consequently, presses need to be multi-featured, flexible and highly automated. Komori manufactures the most innovative and highly automated presses on the market with the lowest cost of ownership and the new presses we unveil at Ipex deliver even higher levels of flexibility and efficiency.”
The new Lithrone LS29 Series has been developed in response to market trends for a sophisticated, highly automated multi colour B2 press in both straight and perfecting configurations. Komori has taken ground breaking technological innovations from its award winning B1 Lithrone LS40 Series (launched four years ago) and incorporated them into the LS29 Series to deliver print quality unlike any other B2 press on the market.
With ultra fast make ready, the LS29 features the highest level of automation Komori has ever offered to the B2 market, including a completely new, fully automatic, plate changing system as standard.
Two LS29 presses will be demonstrating added value printing at Ipex: a five colour LS529 with coater, utilising the fifth unit for machine sealing and the aqueous coater for gloss varnish; and the 10 colour LS1029P perfector demonstrating four-over-four work changing through a variety of stocks, including cover board, with sealing on the fifth and tenth units.
Launched at the show, the Lithrone LS29 Series will be available worldwide from April.
At Ipex, the efficiency and added value print performance of perfecting comes under the spotlight in the Komori Perfecting Zones with the launch of new perfecting presses: the B2 Lithrone LS29P and the first S version of its double-deck Lithrone press, the B1 Lithrone LS40SP.
Outstanding productivity has always been the key feature of the double deck Lithrone SP dedicated perfector, recognised as being up to three times as productive as a straight single sided press. At Ipex, Komori adds advanced technology from its highly successful Lithrone S40 Series to create the new Lithrone LS 40SP.
In this innovative system, Komori combines the exceptional print quality of sheet-fed presses with the productivity of web presses. In addition to its space-saving footprint, the new Lithrone S40SP improves production efficiency significantly and delivers major cost and waste reductions.
Launched at the show, the Lithrone LS 40SP will be available worldwide after Ipex.
In addition to the new Lithrone 10 colour 540SP Super Perfector, the Komori Ipex Perfecting Zones also feature the popular eight colour Lithrone LS 840P producing a wide range of highest quality perfecting featuring high ink coverage; and the four colour SPICA 429P. Designed primarily for new entrants to the quality B2 four colour market, where flexibility is a prerequisite, the four colour/two-over-two SPICA is a price conscious, easy to operate press, delivering hallmark Komori quality print.
The B2 SPICA, which has taken the international market by storm since its launch at drupa 04, features automation for plate changing, cylinder cleaning and job presetting, with a small footprint and integrated main console over the delivery. This press includes the new Komori PDM Print Data Manager, launched at Ipex, for downloading ink profile and job ticketing information.
To demonstrate its flexible open architecture, all six Komori sheetfed presses at Ipex, from the 10 colour double deck LS40SP to the four colour entry level SPICA B2 perfector, are operating within fully JDF-enabled workflows and communicating with multiple third party suppliers to demonstrate the benefits of fully integrated print production from creation all the way to finishing.
At Ipex, the company integrates with more complementary suppliers than at any other event. The Komori DoNet zone features Hagen, Hiflex and Tharstern MIS systems operating bi-directional JDF-based press management via the Komori K-station. Also integrated into DoNet is Screen and Kodak prepress software, digital proofing, Komori K-Color-Profiling press calibration and Komori PDC-SII – the company’s new spectral densitometer. Finishing partners integrated into the workflow on the Komori stand and throughout the show include Freidheim, Horizion and Muller Martini.
Live production jobs will be a key feature of the stand, including 10,000 copies of a magazine produced and printed daily on the new 10 colour Lithrone LS540SP double deck perfector launched at the show. Visitors can track all aspects of the production workflow, from creation and imposition, to processless platemaking, job management and finishing.
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