Finishing & Screen Printing
Falkland Press perfects inline deadline
Monday 14. June 2010 - Jon Lancaster, managing director at Falkland Press in Hatfield, Hertfordshire has become an immediate fan of Kocher+Becks inline offset cutting system (IOC).
“We installed a brand new Heidelberg XL 75-5-P+L in March this year and its been phenomenal, but the latest triumph was producing 550,000 x A4 sticker-sets, with two different, complex dies involved, to a very tight deadline. Following a recommendation from another printer, we used IOC dies from Kocher+Beck and produced each job flat-out at 15,000sph.
I hardly believed how simple it was, but because each die comes as one piece, theyre quick to set-up and amazingly accurate. What really intrigued me was that throughout each of the jobs, the operator made no adjustments to cutting pressure whatsoever. All the labels cut away perfectly – even the fine detail areas. It couldnt have been easier. I dont think you can beat it”.
Falkland Press is a family run business established in 1976 and now employs 20 people. A general commercial print company with a web-to-print service called printedeasy.com using its pressroom complement of the XL 75, an SM 52-2-P and an Indigo 3050 digital press.
“Because our XL 75 press has a perfector the IOC impression cylinder protective film wont stick onto the perfector jackets, so we ran both jobs kiss-cutting before the perfector, with most of the colours afterwards. They were run 4-up in straight-mode over the perfector, so the time saving was amazing, even taking into account we were learning on the job”
Rick Leivers, technical sales executive from Kocher+Beck UK was particularly pleased with the installation. “Considering Falkland Press had never done any inline kiss-cutting before the pressman took to it really quickly, setting up the press and mounting the dies onto the blanket cylinder. It was impressive seeing the jobs coming off at such high speed. I am now able to advise other printers with perfector presses because I know it can work.”
Kocher+Beck are market leading specialists supplying flexible rotary cutting dies to the label and envelope manufacturing industry as well as the commercial offset sector from its custom built factory in Coalville Leicestershire. Everything is produced in-house with turnaround times between 24-48 hours dependent on complexity of individual dies.