PrintEx03 News - Currie Group's first day at the show is a bonanza
David Currie declared his companies have enjoyed a powerful opening day at PrintEx03. "We've had the best ever start to the show and the level of customer interest confirms our strong commitment to the Sydney market.
"We've had good sales from the stand across the whole range of our products, including the first Horizon Stitchliner and another HP Indigo. PrintEx is a very good show for us and we wholeheartedly support its development."
Visitor's to the Currie Group stands at the show are able to see, for the first time in one location, the wide range of industry-leading products and technology solutions that now comprise the portfolio of the group.
Three new product offerings provide the centre of attention at Stands 47& 63.
David Currie declared his companies have enjoyed a powerful opening day at PrintEx03. "We've had the best ever start to the show and the level of customer interest confirms our strong commitment to the Sydney market.
HP Indigo 3000, new high powered digital press
Designed for high volume commercial printing, direct mail and publishing applications, HP Indigo Press w3200 is a seven-color, web-fed wonder which combines the quality and speed of offset with the intelligence of digital printing. With the HP Indigo Press w3200 you can create complete, uniquely personalized products that incorporate variable-data text and images - composed and printed in real time. 
"The HP Indigo 3000 is a quantum leap forward for production level digital colour printing. It is the fastest machine in its class, without any compromise on quality," said Phillip Rennell, HP Indigo Business Manager. (pictured).Its print rate of 8,000 8.5" x 11"/A4 color images-per-hour (two-up) delivers the throughput you need to keep up with urgent schedules.The HP Indigo Press w3200's highly reliable web-handling system welcomes a wide range of substrates including the lightest weight paper stocks common in the direct mail industry.
- meet the pace of this growing industry - consistent, superior output with four-color print speeds on the w3200 of 8,000 A4 or 8.5" x 11" images-per-hour (two-up) and 16,000 A4 or 8.5" x 11" images-per-hour (two-up) on the future w3400. These are throughputs similar to conventional printing, and never before seen with digital printing
- increase your efficiency - add options for electronic collation, five, six or seven-color inking stations, personalization software and in-line finishing solutions. k technology
- only liquid ink delivers offset quality - hp ElectroInk and high definition imaging produce an offset look and feel at 800 x 800 dpi resolution, at 180 lines per inch
- easy to print corporate colors - hp ElectroInk technology allows you to print up to seven colors giving you a wider color gamut than conventional presses
- partner with your customers to meet their direct marketing goals - print each piece with unique text and images with optional hp personalization software
- compromise substrate selection - the highly reliable web handling system welcomes a wide range of substrates including even the lightest weight paper stocks common in the direct mail industry
- long-term flexibility - move up to higher capacity hp indigo systems as your printing needs grow
For more information contact Phillip Rennell 1800 338 131
philliprennell@currico.com.au
The ECRM four-page MAKO4 CTP The Mako 4 platesetter brings new levels of simplicity, versatility and economy to commercial printers.
ECRM Imaging Systems is continuing its strategy of making CTP easier and more cost effective for commercial printers with the launch of the MAKO 4, a small footprint platesetter based on simple-to-use and proven technology.
“The Mako 4 is a full featured CTP solution, with no frills but loads of performance,” states Peter Wilkens, VP Worldwide Marketing at ECRM. “It is an inexpensive workhorse, which uses smart technology to give the four key attributes that our customers want the most: high quality imaging, speed, reliability and the lowest possible cost. In addition, we have made the Mako 4 as easy to use as a contact frame and as easy to integrate as a new PC.”
The Mako 4 is a violet-laser platesetter, incorporating ECRM’s unique VIP (Verified Image Position) imaging system, a technology which has been installed in Mako imaging devices at over 10,000 commercial printers, service bureaus and trade shops worldwide. Due to its straight-through plate path, without the complications of a drum-loading system, VIP imaging makes the Mako 4 both fast and simple to use.
Operators just register a pre-notched plate against the pin bar system, release the file from the RIP and the Mako 4 does the rest. This includes perfect setting of the plate exposure from the RIP’d job data, and the feed of the exposed plate directly to an online processor.
The Mako 4 has been designed to be versatile. It uses a long-life 405nm violet diode for exposure at any one of seven resolutions up to 3556 dpi. The optical configuration is compatible with the latest range of plates from the major suppliers in the industry through two laser alternatives – a 5mw laser for Silver Halide plates and a 30 mw laser for Photopolymer plates. The imaging format also covers the widest range of 2- and 4-page presses.
To provide the maximum variety of plate sizes, but to also maintain precise registration, a pin-bar system is used to align the plates as they are manually fed into the Mako 4. The pin bars are interchangeable - in a few seconds – so that the Mako 4 can image plates for different format presses, from 10.0" x 15.0" (254 mm x 381 mm) to 25.4" x 36.5" (645 mm x 927 mm).
For more information contact Richard Watson 1800 338 131
RischardWatson@currico.com.au
The Horizon StitchLiner 5500
At Printex 2003 The Currie Group will introduce The Horizon StitchLiner 5500, a saddle-stitching book production line with fast automated set-ups. It accepts flat sheets from the Horizon VAC-Turbo series of PowerCollators to produce true saddlestitched booklets with full bleed trimming. The StitchLiner will appeal to the many B3 and B2 commercial printers already producing ‘saddlestitch’- type booklets in-house via lower volume stitch/fold/trim lines.
“Just do the maths,” says Bernie Robins, Sales Director for the Currie Group. (pictured) “A 10,000 run of a 40 page A4 book represents 100,000 sheets on a B3 press. They can go straight onto the StitchLiner and be books on the floor within two hours – including make-ready. Traditional methods would involve more than twice that time in folding alone, let alone multiple handling, complex set-ups and specialist operators.“The new Horizon is the ideal complement to the higher volume lines as well as the natural inhouse selection for commercial printers. The StitchLiner is so economic it will sell itself.”
Productivity further benefits from the unparalleled speed and reliability of the VAC-Turbo’s advanced rotating suction drum feed mechanism, its superior error detection systems and computerised non-stop operation modes... and the finished books produced on the StitchLiner are fully comparable with books completed via traditional saddlestitching machines.
The line is designed to produce the books in an unbroken integrated sequence that includes collating, plough folding, sub-set registration and accumulation, saddle-stitching, spine pressing and three-knife trimming of books of up to 200+ pages. The VAC-Turbo PowerCollators can be programmed for non-stop continuous operation and bins can be selected and twinned for coverfeeding as required. Maximum production cycle speed is 5,500 books per hour rising to 11,000 bph in 2-up production mode.The line is set-up and controlled at the interactive icon-based touch screen on the SPF-30 saddlestitching machine. From the input job information the control computer calculates and sets the positions of the front and back stops and joggers on the ACF-30 sub-set gatherer; the incoming set stopper, stitching position stopper & jogger, drive finger position, stitcher heads & clincher, stitch stroke (wire length), the stopper for advancing books and the gap of the steel spine-pressing rollers within the SPF-30 saddlestitcher; the top and bottom guides at the infeed section of the HTS-30 3-knife trimmer, the back stop for the fore-edge knife the top and bottom trim knives and the delivery belt speed of the HTS- 30... all in a process that is completed within two minutes.
The new Horizon StitchLiner will be launched at Printex on the Currie Group stand 47.
For more information contact Bernie Robinson 1800 338 131
bernierobinson@currico.com.au