Times of India reconfigures double-width presses

Jan 23, 2015 at 07:56 am by Staff


Print facilities at the Times of India have been upgraded with the relocation and reconfiguration of towers in Delhi and Mumbai.

The group - which is the largest user of manroland web presses in India - has Colorman, Geoman, Regioman and double-width Cromoman presses at sites around the country.

Recently two Geoman towers from Mumbai to the Times of India print site in Sahibabad - which is in northern India near Delhi - and an existing Geoman expanded to include six towers. As colour advertising becomes an increasingly popular option, especially during festival season, the upgrade enables 48 pages of colour, and print editions of 40 or 48 pages. Engineers TOI worked with colleagues from manroland India to cut the conversion time to a minimum.

In Mumbai, two Colorman presses have been linked to increase flexibility in terms of page numbers. An additional web path guides two webs from one system through the balloon-former to the folder on the second system. This enables the printing of products with up to four 16-page sections or 64-page newspaper copies. In addition to additional web leads and turner bar levels, manroland web systems installed a new register control system.

Project lead Ralf Schädlich says the challenge was to keep the entire system available for daily production. "TOI could only offer to take a short break from using the system for three days," he says. "During this time, we also needed to do all testing and commission the system. At night, the presses kept running at full capacity."

The actual conversion process took place in less than three weeks.

Right: A Colorman press

On our homepage: A Cromoman 4-1 press at the Times of India site in Kolkata


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