Heidelberg is unleashing its complete digital potential and bolstering its local digital profile, offering customers in Australia and New Zealand a new package which includes a range of Linoprint configurations along with your choice of a Polar guillotine.
Although Heidelberg may be renowned globally as the largest offset press manufacturer in the world, the company has been driving its digital offering over the past few years and now local businesses can offer the full flexibility of Heidelberg’s digital offering from start to finish.
The deal allows customers to select the best Linoprint digital configuration to suit the needs of their business with the post-press option of the Polar range of digital guillotines, including the Polar models 56/66/80 ECO as well as the new Guillo-Crease addition.
The local package deal comes following last year’s announcement at drupa of the global partnership between Heidelberg and Linoprint manufacturer, Ricoh.
In April this year, the company announced that the partnership had made its way to the Australian and New Zealand market, with the Linoprint Digital Press range ands the Prinect Digital Print Manager system available to local customers as a single package.
Now, Heidelberg Australia and New Zealand (HAN) has expanded its offering to also include the Polar range of digital automatic guillotines along with its range of Linoprint presses, including the Linoprint C651, C751 & C901.
In April, Richard Timson, HAN managing director, said the local introduction of the partnership between Heidelberg and Ricoh paves the way for local printers to claim genuine integration of digital print into offset operations.
“This is a unique opportunity for true digital print integration into the offset workflow. It’s not about adding another machine that is independent to the workflow. Rather it is about print shops benefitting from workflow management advances which will turn the focus back to printing profitably by utilising the right press for the right job,” he said.
According to Heidelberg, Polar high-speed cutters meet the highest demands regarding quality, efficiency and durability. The high-speed cutter can be employed both as an individual machine, or as the center piece of an automatic cutting system for processing paper, paperboard, cardboard or plastics.
Brian Evans, Heidelberg’s local product manager, Post Press, says that the Polar guillotine offering can enable printers to substantially decrease their turnaround times. Additionally, the three guillotines claim the safest knife change systems, which are all backed by full Heidelberg service.
Meanwhile, the Polar Guillo-Crease system allows the user to convert the cutter into a creaser by replacing the cutting stick, with a male and female creasing set-up. According to Evans, the system is ideal for digital output.
“It’s a device that can be used on any one of those three Polar machines,” says Evans. “You can take out the cutting stick and replace it with the Gillo-Crease. It’s like a cutting stick but it’s got a groove in it with the male side magnetised and stuck to the underside of the clamp. It comes with four different versions of female side, so we can cover a wide range of stock weights.
On the digital printing side of things, the Linoprint C 751 is well suited to entry-level digital color production. With outstanding image quality and an exceptional functionality, it offers a very high specifications level and the best reliability in its class. In short, the Linoprint C 751 boasts cost-effective production for very short runs and variable data, workflow integration via the Prinect Digital Print Manager and print speeds of up to 75 A4 pages per minute on media up to 300 gsm. The oil-free PxP toner ensures optimum image quality plus the ability to perform further post-production processes.
Additionally, the Linoprint C 901 is an advanced digital color production system for highly productive output. It can process a very wide range of printing materials and exhibits impressive versatility, scalability and performance. The flexible workflow, reliable substrate feed & excellent registration, are ideal for all your short run colour needs.
The press boasts cost-effective production, workflow integration via the Prinect Digital Print Manager and the fastest printing speed in its class (at a rated speed of 90 A4 pages per minute on media up to 300 gsm in perfecting printing, i.e. duplex mode). The oil-free PxP toner ensures optimum image quality as well as the ability to celloglaze, die-cut, emboss or embellish.
Contact your local Heidelberg representative for more information about this new bundle offering.