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Baldwin Shows How to Increase Press Productivity and Lower Costs With Innovative Automation Equipment At China Print 2009
Tuesday 24. March 2009 - Printers seeking ways of improving the productivity and print quality of their presses will find several options on the Baldwin Technology stand at the forthcoming China Print 2009 exhibition, which will take place in Beijing from 12th - 16th May.
The company has recently augmented its range of process automation solutions for the graphic arts industry by forming partnerships with other leading manufacturers around the world. This has resulted in Baldwin now being able to offer sheetfed, commercial web and newspaper printers an unrivalled product portfolio of systems designed to enhance press efficiency and print quality, while also reducing wastage and environmental impact.
“China is an increasingly important market for Baldwin and we have had a number of significant successes,” says Sales Manager Simon Leung. “Printers everywhere are looking to reduce the costs associated with printing, regardless of what market they operate in, and this is exactly what Baldwins systems are designed to achieve. If a printer needs a more effective method of cleaning their blankets or drying the printed stock, a better method of dampening or managing their fount solution, then the answer is likely to be on the Baldwin stand at China Print 2009.”
Extensive Range of Automated Cleaning Systems
90 years experience is incorporated into Baldwins development of automatic blanket cleaning technologies for the Sheetfed, Commercial-Web (Heatset), Semi-Commercial and high-performance Newspaper sectors (Coldset). ImpactFusion-F NP, which can be used with PREPAC or DryPac, offers the advantages of the established ImpactFusion-F CW technology for the semi-commercial market, including highly effective cleaning of blankets, ease of operation, cloth changeover and maintenance plus low waste. ProTech CW, which uses brush technology to automatically clean blankets, has been established for many years within the Commercial-Web, Newspaper and Semi-Commercial markets. The latest system, ProTech2 NP, incorporates several updated operational and performance features.
Other products within Baldwins cleaning stable include TowerClean, a low cost, extremely effective automatic blanket cleaning system for single width presses and JetStream, which enables dust to be removed from the web before it enters the press. There are also systems for cleaning areas of the press such as ink rolls, guide rolls and chill rolls. Baldwin offers a full or partial integration into the central control console, as well as stand-alone solutions for both new installations and retrofits, guaranteeing easy operation.
Award Winning Cleaning Consumables
Baldwin has extended its award-winning, environmentally efficient line of DryPac and PREPAC consumables for automatic cleaning systems with the addition of PREPAC E, Plus and X-treme technologies. Baldwin now offers both high performance PREPAC solutions for hybrid, UV and textured cylinder applications as well as significantly improved cost-effective PREPAC cleaning for traditional newspaper and semi-commercial, commercial-web and sheetfed printing applications.
Fluid and Temperature Systems
For 50 years Baldwins fluid and temperature control product range has provided options for all market segments plus performance and capacity requirements, with solutions for reducing or eliminating alcohol. These systems are particularly popular amongst sheetfed printers. Fluid and temperature technologies include the fountain solution conditioning systems, BasicLiner, CombiLiner, DailyLiner, Automix, Basic/HighTemp, BalControl and IpaSonic, plus the fountain solution filtration technologies LongLife-C and Performance (focused on sheetfed market).
All of Baldwins filtration solutions are designed to achieve savings on dampening solution additives, alcohol and energy. The LongLife-C filtration system, for newspaper applications with spray dampening, is based on a strategic partnership with manufacturer Falk. This system removes dirt from the dampening solution while ensuring the additive, alcohol or alcohol substitute percentages remain unchanged.
Spray Dampening Systems
Baldwins LithoSpray Maxima is a multi-faceted spray dampening system for use in demanding newspaper and semi-commercial applications, as well as with commercial web presses. Baldwin leads the industry in spray nozzles, valves and control technology, which ensure optimized control of print quality not only during press start-up and normal daily production but also during long periods of high press speeds. Baldwins patented Constant C technology eliminates blocking of spray nozzles by ink mist and dust etc.
Web Security Systems
In the area of web protection, Baldwin offers reliable clamping devices under the product name ProTect and the WebCatcher S14 and WebCatcher S18 for use in the commercial web, newspaper and semi-commercial area. The WebCatcher S14 prevents press damage from a web break at speeds of up to 13 m/s and the WebCatcher S18 for web speeds of up to 18 m/s.
In-line Finishing Systems
Printers seeking greater efficiency and productivity from their presses are increasingly installing in-line finishing equipment and Baldwin has several leading products in this area, including MicroSet (for slower presses), WebTack, WebSiliconer and SoftWeb systems, which between them provide gluing, web siliconing web softening and stock moisturising facilities.
Drying Systems
Baldwin is a major supplier of drying systems and this includes the InfraOrange, Compact, GraphiSet 1 – 4 and FlexoSet products, which provide a comprehensive range of drying options for sheetfed, semi-commercial and newspaper presses. The company has been working closely with Nordson UV and has recently signed a Private Label Supplier agreement that allows it to rebrand Nordson UV equipment in certain countries and offer customers UV, UV/IR combination and IR drying systems.
Service Solutions
In todays demanding market, printers have to achieve maximum productivity and reliability from equipment and Baldwin offers customers support through its highly efficient global service organisation to help customers obtain these goals. Individually tailored service packages can incorporate retrofits and system optimisation, after-sales support, spare parts etc. Preventive measures can be added into the package. Baldwin offers special retrofit upgrades so that customers can maintain their systems at optimum efficiency, while its consulting and training services ensures the user obtains the maximum benefits from their Baldwin equipment.