Phillips (Print & Stationery) of Crediton has taken a Polar 78X guillotine to replace an older machine and says it will benefit from the faster backgauge, easier programmability and slick Optiknife knife changing features.
Harland Simon has secured, in quick succession, its 2nd inserter upgrade order; a contract was signed with Ventura County Star, CA to upgrade their inserter controls (ICON) on their two NP 630 Inserters. The conversion will be carried out over the winter period with all inserters in full production by early 2009, without any disruption to Venturas busy production schedule.
After his experience buying a 2-color Printmaster QM 46 press from Heidelberg in January, Don Bailey didnt think twice about where to look when it came time to upgrade his shops cutter in June.
Polestar Sheffield has broken its own record for the application of sachets into a leading newspaper supplement. Using a battery of four of its Ferag finishing lines, the company tipped on over a million glued Clinique cosmetic sachets for the advertiser Estée Lauder into the copies of You magazine, which accompanies Associated Newspapers Mail on Sunday newspaper.
The Anton Group has made more major investment in the finishing area, re-equipping to cope with work from its battery of Speedmaster long perfectors and its burgeoning digital printing side.
Martin Printing, a general commercial shop in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, has added a POLAR 92 X cutter from Heidelberg to its postpress lineup.
As we do every Fall, the Graphics industry met in late October at the Graph Expo Show, October 26 – 29 at the McCormick Center in Chicago, Illinois.
