Polar 80 is a cut above the rest

Heidelberg’s new and highly automated Polar 80 guillotine made its Australian debut in Melbourne at the Print Media Academy in March, and its first Australian tradeshow appearance at PrintEx.

Two Polar 80s were sold at Printex, one off the stand to NZ-based Excel Digital, another following a week after to a NSW-based printing company.

According top Brian Evans, post press product manager, customer response to the new machine has been tremendously good.

“We had a lot of interest in the Polar 80 at our Printex stand, not just from commercial printers but also from the digital side with copy shops and digital printers keen to see how it works. This cutter is perfectly designed for those important markets due to its small footprint, 900kg weight and the functionality it can offer,” said Evans.

The innovative guillotine was awarded one of Print21’s Hot Picks for PrintEx. It uses an 80cm cutting length and feed depth, with a 10cm in feed height. It can cut as little as 2cm with false clamp out and 5cm with clamp in.

Clamp pressure of the guillotine is 180 - 2700daN with a back gauge speed up to 13cm/s.

Heidelberg Polar 80 guillotine features:

• 5,5” monochrome display with 198 programs for storing separate jobs
• Block programming, automatically “cut ‘n records” during cutting
• Adjustable clamping time for extra air escape with high volume paper, adjustable knife resting time for thin papers
• Electronic correction of basic measurement and knife thickness via display
• Jogging mark notation in programs with push-out programming steps
• Can enter and divide fractions into decimals
• Hydraulically operated, manual operations via foot pedal for testing the cutting line
• Optical cutting line indicator
• Easy knife changing with fine adjustment from the front side, automatic knife stop in the lower dead point
• HSS knife as a standard, cutting stick ejector”
• Faster backguage
• Front and rear air tables