Insert & heatset

‘Quantum leap’ in heatset makes print more competitive
Larger format heatset presses will help print compete with other media, manroland webfed sales vice president Peter Kuisle says.

manroland adds ‘autoprint’ features to Lithoman heatset order
manroland says it has sold a ‘world first’ 64-page Lithjoman heatset press with its autoprint automation package to German company Körner Rotationsdruck.

Inkjet web, now book printer goes for compact KBA Commander with IR
CPI, the French book printer which recently signed up to buy the HP inkjet web press it has been trialling, has put together an innovative offset press based on KBA’s compact newspaper technology.

$1.57 m control upgrade gives PMP's 15-year-old directory presses new life
PMP Print has upgraded three of the older directory presses at its Chullora, NSW, print site with automated ink and closed-loop colour controls in a $1.57 million deal with Israeli developer GMI.

Goss sells 96-page heatset web press into Germany
Goss International has scored the order to install the first 96-page heatset web in Germany, at Stark Druck in Pforzheim.

First Goss M-600 Folia press will go to Germany
Goss has sold its first M-600 Folia web-to-sheet press to one of Germany’s largest sheetfed printers, W. Kohlhammer Druckerei in Stuttgart.

Quad’s direct-mail Sunday: It’s hush-hush
US contract printer Quad/Graphics is buying a new Goss Sunday 2000 web press for its direct mail plant, but despite an announcement by the maker, Quad doesn’t want you to know the details.

manroland scores 80-page press sale for inserts push
manroland has sold an 80-page Lithoman to established customer Mohn Media in Gütersloh, Germany.

Double-aisle and pinless folders extend Goss heatset capability
Goss has been busy with folder technology, announcing a new double-aisle design for its M-500 and M-600 presses in France, and completing assembly of its fourth SG-3 pinless combination folder in the USA.

Mazzucchelli's super-web fires up as Goss sells another
Days after scoring a second 96-page Sunday 5000 press order, Goss has commissioned its ‘world’s first’ installation at Grafiche Mazzucchelli in Seriate, near Milan in Italy.

Goss scores another 96-page heatset sale
Spanish commercial and publication printer Altair, part of Impresia Iberica and a member of the European group, Circle Printers, will install the world’s second Goss Sunday 5000 press. The new press is scheduled for shipment to the Altair facility, south of the capital Madrid, at the end of the year.

18 months ROI claimed on thermal recovery system
Goss is making its Ecobox thermal energy recovery system enhancement available to heatset printers worldwide, promising printing facilities the opportunity of reducing energy consumption significantly.

Dryer innovation can halve energy use, Goss claims
Goss has launched a new dryer for heatset printers which it claims can cut energy consumption and emissions by more than 50 per cent

Goss starts installation of 'world's first' 96-page press
Goss starts installation of 'world's first' 96-page press
Goss International has started installation of the 96-page web offset press at Mazzucchelli in Seriate, Italy, following shipping in January.

Quebecor World takes three Lithoman presses for USA and Canada
Quebecor World has ordered three manroland heatset presses for catalogue production in the USA and Canada.

Quad Graphics retrofits DigiRail to Sunday presses
Quad/Graphics,one of Goss’s biggest Sunday web press users, is retrofitting a Sunday 3000 with the company’s DigiRail inking system.

Short runs, head on: Printing a 10,000-copy edition every 12 minutes becomes a daily routine

Komori builds for the future
Japanese web and sheetfed maker Komori will almost double the size of its three-year-old Tsukuba factory, switching production of web-offset and banknote presses there. Komori is also planning worldwide technical service centres including one in Kuala Lumpur to open later this year.

Goss adds a high-speed quarterfold
Goss has introduced a new JF-65 SQF high-speed single-chopper commercial web folder it says will provide enhanced control of signatures on its M-600 presses.

Flexible folder is first for KBA
An 80-page Compacta 818 heatset web with a format-variable V5 folder at Sego in France is a first for maker KBA.

First Goss M-600 Folia going to France
Goss International says it has landed its first order for the M-600 Folia ... to be installed at a large sheetfed printing house in France early next year.