Finishing & Screen Printing
Spectrum updates its folding for efficiency
Friday 12. February 2010 - Spectrum Printing will next week take delivery of an automated TH 56 Stahlfolder from Heidelberg, replacing a rival MBO machine.
“We went to a Heidelberg open house and were so impressed by the speed and ease of use of this buckle model, we decided we had to have one,” says Spectrums joint owner-director Karl Nicholson.
“We are particularly impressed by the makeready times and the overall speed of the machine. The fact that it can programme in and recall a contract, will enable us to lift a job and fit in another, where deadlines demand. That makes it very flexible. Its a productive machine that fits with our B2 capacity but, given the issue of de-skilling across our industry, the ease of use is also critical.”
The folder will give the Leicester company the fillip required to feed a new saddle-stitcher, installed at the beginning of January. Efficient equipment cuts waste, which is important to the company who have already attained the first part of its ISO 14001 environmental accreditation and which will have their final audit in March. This will be in addition to its FSC certification and colour and quality accreditations, ISO 12647 and ISO 9001 respectively.
“Its no use printing fast if you cant get work out of the door, so we take the finishing department very seriously,” says Mr Nicholson. “We have been a Heidelberg house for many years so we are glad to be able to take one of their folders now.”
The TH 56 will run straight days, although the pressroom, which runs Speedmaster 74 and XL 75 B2 technology, operates double day shifts.
The TH 56 is part of Heidelbergs popular buckle folder family which was developed to take mark-free folding to a new productivity level suited to todays industrial printing environment.