Finishing & Screen Printing

Products being shown at Drupa

Monday 19. May 2008 - Flexible and Bespoke Mailing Systems

KAS Paper Systems will be demonstrating the ease of operation and quick change-over of the Mailmaster 465HS and Mailmaster 565HS envelope inserters. The Mailmaster 465HS inserts into envelope sizes between DL and over-sized C4 at speeds of up to 6000 completed envelopes an hour while the MailMaster 565HS inserts into envelope sizes up to C5 at speeds of over 7000 per hour. Additional features include sheet feeders with accumulation and folding in-line, OMR, BCR or OCR facilities, touch-screen control, management information, in-line stapling or bookletmaking.

Mailmaster Compact C4 entry level enveloper

Also being showcased is the Mailmaster Compact C4 Enveloper, an entry level DL to C4 system, which not only provides a lower price solution but its smaller footprint helps to overcome space issues. It is supplied in a fixed configuration, comprising of a sheet feeder folder, two insert feeders and a hand feed position, with the possibility of one additional feeder. It envelopes at speeds up to 5000 an hour, inserting up to 12mm into a C4 envelopes, with a duty cycle of over 500,000 per month.

It has many of the features of the existing Mailmaster 465HS, including quick changeover between jobs, touch-screen control, folding facility, feeders that will hand from a single sheet to a 7mm book and optional OMR or barcode reading.


International launch of KAS Mailwrap

The KAS Mailwrap polywrapper, which at DRUPA has its first showing at an international print exhibition, has been developed to fill a gap in the market for printers and direct mail companies to upgrade from lower speed equipment without having to invest in high speed polywrappers at much greater cost.

It handles from CD width to over A4 with a maximum speed of 5000 A4 packs per hour. The Mailwrap has similar feeders to the Mailmaster 465HS range, giving further flexibility, because it is now possible to purchase systems where the same feeders are interchangeable between the polywrapper and envelope inserter.


Print Finishing Equipment – new Crease Matic (CM) Auto50

KAS will be showing its range of KASfold boookletmakers and ancillary equipment including the Crease Matic (CM) Auto50, a new high speed SRA2 suction fed fully programmable card creaser, which operates at up to 7000 sph. The crease can be programmed anywhere along the length of the sheet. Up to 28 creases per sheet can be programmed with 99 memories for regular jobs. Stock can be creased in sizes from CD to SRA2 (max sheet 500 x 700mm). It is supplied with four creasing width tools to cover the stock range of 80-400gsm. 3 steel matrix creasing tools are supplied. The fourth is a matrix bar to which Channel Matrix self-adhesive matrix can be attached. These Channel Matrix are available in many sizes and are inexpensive to use. They have proved very popular for creasing lightweight stocks 80-150gsm. This system is popular for providing a single point crease rather than the square box crease made by the metal tool, especially useful if the job is to be stitched. It has a rotary perforating system as standard.