KIT & MEDIA / NEWS 24 email: news@printmonthly.co.uk PrintMonthly printmonthly PrintMonthlyMagazine May / June 2024 - Issue 348 The Shetland Times has invested in a new binding line for its commercial printing division, Studio Graphic Design & Print Shop. Having celebrated its 150th anniversary in June 2022, the company has now upgraded its production capabilities by replacing the Linotype Trimstitch with a Horizon Stitchliner. Located in Lerwick, Shetland, it’s suspected that this is the most remote northerly installation in the UK for this machine. Larger paginations on the older machine required up to four people to run jobs, however, the Horizon Stitchliner can be operated by a single team member, meaning the additional staff can be deployed in both the finishing and printing departments. With requests becoming increasingly varied in terms of booklet formats, Studio can now keep more production in-house and have complete autonomy over jobs with binding requirements. To streamline production further, the Komori Color+ Spectral colour management system was also recently retro-fitted to the Komori S26 five-colour B2 commercial printing press. Studio has praised Komori engineer Kevin McHale for “invaluable training and advice” whilst installing the new densitometric scanning head and associated equipment. In addition, Studio’s Screen Platerite 8000 II CTP system from Marlowe Graphics was calibrated and the Komori was quickly running full-colour commercial work. The company has noted an increase in colour brightness and colour consistency on both short and long runs as a result. Studio’s Xerox V180 digital press is being updated with a new Xerox Versant 280. This is expected to increase control over colour output through the use of a handheld spectrophotometer and more accuracy when duplexing/backing up. The Stitchliner will now complete much of the finishing of digital work as it is capable of handling larger paginations than the previous Xerox three-knife trimmer. An area of growth for Studio is wide-format print and signage with the company producing bespoke stickers, posters, pull-up banners, outdoor banners, window graphics, and more. New binding line for The Shetland Times Studio Graphic Design & Print Shop, a division of The Shetland Times, has invested in a Horizon Stitchliner By Carys Evans Over the last few weeks and months SCREEN Graphic Solutions has released details of new product launches and investments within the print and label markets including a new roll-fed digital inkjet press. Most recently SCREEN has detailed the 100th worldwide sale of its Truepress LABEL 350UV SAI-S 5 colour inkjet press. The press has been installed at Italian label specialist Impronta Digitale, becoming the third SCREEN press installed at the company. Linda Picello, co-owner of Impronta, comments: “This new press opens doors to new markets, increases our production capacity, and guarantees that our clients receive labels of consistent quality, quickly and efficiently.” Speaking about the investment in the technology, Picello adds: “What drove us to invest in digital presses is their ability to start production at any moment and produce labels of consistent quality and brilliance on every print run, while remaining competitive in the market. “Our SAI machines operate ten hours a day, in two shifts, five days a week, with an average production length of 1,000 metres per job – handling print runs from 30 to 10,000 metres. Investing in SCREEN’s technology was the right choice to allow us to grow and improve over time.” At the start of February, SCREEN announced it had finalised the development of its new Truepress JET 560HDX rollfed digital inkjet press. The system joins SCREEN’s line up of presses for the commercial printing, direct mail, and publishing markets. The JET 560HDX has been developed for the complex and fast turnaround times of commercial printing as well as the flexible format sizes and shortening of production runs for publishing. In order to respond to changing markets, SCREEN introduced its Truepress JET 520HD+ and 520 HD AD printers with the Truepress SC and SC+ ink sets. This made SCREEN the first manufacturer to provide a practical solution to printing directly onto offset-coated papers with an inkjet system without the need for inkjet treatment. The new press will be displayed at SCREEN’s Inkjet Innovation Centres in the US and in Europe as well as at drupa 2024. A series of launches from SCREEN Graphic Solutions The new Truepress JET 560HDX will be showcased at drupa 2024 from May 28th to June 7th in the Messe DÜsseldorf By David Osgar
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