Offset Printing
EUROMAN Gains Global Stature
Tuesday 06. May 2008 - MAN Roland announced agreements today with two renowned printers, Jagran Prakashan Ltd. in Kanpur, India, and Litografia Magnograf S.A. in Edo de Puebla, Mexico. Both have opted for the new 32-page EUROMAN heatset webfed press by MAN Roland.
The graphic arts industry today focuses the challenges of a fast growing market with ever changing demands and perpetual pressure of competition. Flexibility, efficiency and cost effectiveness at the same time with quality and just-in-time production are features that get more and more important to printing companies worldwide.
Stronger market presence
Jagran Prakashan Ltd. is one of the biggest printing companies in India and runs more than 30 production sites. Their publications reach about 20 million Quebecor Media Contracts with MAN Roland for Massive Hybrid Extension Program.
MAN Roland North America announced today that Quebecor Media, Inc., one of Canadas largest publishers, has contracted with the printing press manufacturer to convert two of its production facilities into true hybrid operations for newspaper publishing and commercial printing.
The Quebecor Media facilities to undergo the conversion are Mirabel Printing located nearby to Montreal, Quebec, and Wide Web Printing located nearby to Toronto, ON. When the transformation is completed, both plants will be able to use their current COLORMAN newspaper press platforms to efficiently and quickly produce quality newspaper publishing and commercial printing work.
Though both sites have been running modified hybrid operations since early 2007, the addition of MEGTEC “dual dryers,” along with additional printing towers, will make the two plants the first in North America to produce heatset products on such a large scale.
Capable of handling formats up to 54-inches wide, the Quebecor Media plants will be able to produce a variety of newspaper titles, telephone directory work and become a huge outsource production center for the greater Montreal and Toronto regions. In essence, Quebecor Media will own the first real hybrid facilities on the continent capable of combining heatset printing, coldest printing and outsourcing under the same roofs.
In order to fulfill Quebecor Medias vision to bring three different product types together in a single facility, MAN Roland drew from its vast portfolio of press system components, integrating commercial folders, automation and press system controls to create for the publisher a very versatile and extremely flexible print system platform.
“The importance of these installations is that they show newspaper owners and publishers how they can increase revenue with new printing technology,” said Ron Sams, MAN Rolands Vice President Newspaper Web Sales. “By leveraging their printing and operational expertise, theyre able to spread out their capital investment and attract more readers and advertisers with a better printed product.”
“Because press schedules are very full at both Quebecor locations, it was important to develop installation and implementation schedules that will minimize disruptions,” said Sams. “As a result, we have created a dedicated project management team with special resources to execute the challenging tasks that lie ahead.”
“This is press extension project is a very challenging project which will provide hybrid printing capability to our customers. Our vision from the beginning planning phase was to build a printing facility that would be fully utilized nearly 24 hours a day and deliver a lower cost to print on a very flexible printing platform. We are confident that we made the right choice in selecting MAN Roland for this very challenging venture” said Nolin Richard, Vice President of Production for Quebecor Media.
Installation will begin in August 2008, for the Montreal facility with on-edition slated for March 2009. For the Toronto facility, installation will commence in October 2008, with on-edition planned for May 2009.readers per day. Because of the rising market requirements, the company decided to invest in a heatset press. The most important criteria were the press design and technology of the new EUROMAN. The system promises a significant enlargement of the product range and a stronger market presence. The EUROMAN for Jagran is a 32-pages heatset web offset press with a web width of 965 millimeters, a cylinder circumference of 1092 millimeters and a maximum speed of 35,000 cylinder rph or 70,000 copies cross folded. The press with a horizontal web lead consists of four printing units an automatic splicer and a DualDry III dryer. The folding system with one former is equipped with a 2:3:3 jaw folder with quarter fold. The press is driven by shaftless AC motor technology.
Flexible concepts for dynamic markets
Another EUROMAN is scheduled for installation with Litografia Magnograf in Edo de Puebla, Mexico. The new press gives the printing company the required flexibility for a versatile range of applications. The 32-page press with four printing units produces with a cylinder circumference of 1156 millimeters and a web width of 965 millimeters. The folding system consists of one former and a 2:3:3 jaw folder with quarter fold and section stitcher. Moreover, the units are equipped with a register control system, automatic ink supply and automatic webbing up system up to the draw roller in front of the folder superstructure. The press will go on line in summer 2008. To be up to the standards of high printing quality, the units are equipped with segmented ink blades, three plate inking rollers and three temperature con-trolled ink distributor rollers for constant ink viscosity and uniform ink den-sity. By its high level of automation the EUROMAN offers maximum flexibility for short and long runs. The short makeready times allow a fast production of different print jobs. A high efficiency for commercial printing is also promised by PPL, the optional automated plate change system by MAN Roland. Additionally, the presses are equipped with PECOM, the MAN Roland printnet production management system.