Rotary printing custom and post-press processing solutions

In order to better serve the market, large-scale printing factories should have a variety of production capabilities, so that they can respond flexibly to the different needs of customers and maintain their competitive position. Therefore, today's rotary printing technology should be able to process a wider range of products (including magazines, catalogs, advertising prints/inserts, name directories, books, etc.), as well as different formats and pages (from four to 96 pages and More pages) products.

Suppliers who provide post-press equipment for the European rotary printing market should have the ability to meet a variety of highly flexible and personalized solutions to meet different (or special) production types and page configuration requirements. In addition should provide:

Highly automated level

Efficient production and high-speed solutions

Equipment and service/personnel reliability

Efficiency - low production costs and low waste (drop to 0)

Italy's civiemmes.pa. is an industry-leading company that specializes in providing turnkey printing equipment with a full range of custom-tailored post-press equipment solutions. Civemme has been designing and manufacturing stackers since 1975. At the same time, civiemme company also aims to meet the special needs of different markets, mainly for the European and North American markets, for them to customize personalized solutions. During these years, civiemme has introduced various types of products to meet the various needs of rotary printers.

Rotary printing presses generally have a production speed of over 40,000 cph. Since 2001, civiemme has installed 40 post-press equipment systems on the European market, handling the output of 64-page rotary printing presses, and the company has also sold the same amount. The post-press system is used to process the 48-page press job output.

Here are some examples of printing vendors:

European Market Case Study

Italian pozzoni company

Pozzonigroup is a leading printing company in Italy and recently added three Roland lithomans.

The iv64-page press has increased web production capacity by 60%. At the same time, it has also been equipped with the latest civiemme solution for signature processing. The company's goal is to further improve processing capabilities and grow into the leading printing company in Europe.

These imported rotary presses are mainly used to print catalogs, magazines, and advertising products in different formats and pages. The lithoman press will be installed between mid-2004 and mid-2005.

Civiemme's equipment will simultaneously process product stacking and signature classification for each of the four delivery units (two magazines, one tabloid, and one dp) for each press. Above it is a transmission system with steering gates and job stream changeover structures to change the direction through which the printed pages can be transferred to the civieym's postpress facility.

Both lithoman presses will also have the same post-press equipment solution installed. Many processed products, such as leaflets and advertising products, will be trimmed by the rt550 rotary cutter for three to four sides. The cut product is then stacked by the cs350 compensation counter stacker. The piling machine is equipped with a special slot compensation device to ensure continuous and smooth transfer of the job flow to the above positioning area, where the prints are piled up.

On the cs350 take-up system, the electronic module unit (bu350) makes the stack very fluffy and can be manually or automatically palletised so that it can maintain the perfect quality of the print and avoid the use of adhesive tape.

The book-bundling uses a different stacking solution consisting of two st420/120 bale stackers to form a 1200mm thick book bundle. This stacker is designed for fast web printing equipment and can quickly produce book bundles in seconds. In pozzoni, the stacker is also equipped with a fully automatic double baling system: when the first baling unit breaks down, the second baling unit is automatically started as a back up, guaranteeing the packaging process and production well. The continuity of the process.

The bundles from the two st420/120 bale stackers and the book stack from the cs350 compensating stacker will be sent together to a single stacking device: pl-robot 250. This stacking robot is installed with other equipment for the production of fully automated stacking processes, including tool conversion and clamping for books and bundles. The speed of the pl-robot 250 is to stack 144 bundles of books per hour, 800 bags per hour.

The third Lithoman press will also install a postpress equipment system that will be used exclusively for bale production. In this case, civiemme will provide a special robot designed specifically for palletizing stacking of stacks processed by the st420/120 stacker.

The pozzoni group company is very fortunate to have chosen this post-press equipment system for their new 64-page press. Its technology and special structure allow high-volume production processing, providing great flexibility and efficient production. Its compact structure also saves a lot of space for their plant.

Kraft-schlels, Germany

A printing plant in Germany, Kraft-Schlels, has introduced a Manroland Lithomaniv 48-page web press since March 2003. Kraft-schlels, together with Austria's famous printing plant strohalrotationsdruck, co-produced together. They have 10 rotary offset printing machines and can produce from 16 pages to 128 pages. They specialize in supplying commercial prints and magazines to users. They focus on investment in advanced rotary printing technology, aiming to provide users with European-leading quality products and fast distribution services. So they followed the same principle for the postpress equipment system they chose for their new lithoman press.

Civiemme's fully automated post-printing system can handle the output of one or two folding feeders with a high degree of flexibility. It can keep up with the speed of the press and maintain perfect print quality. The two workflows transmitted from the twofold paper-feeding devices will be stacked on the rotary cutter for three-sided or four-sided cutting. This precise cutting system allows the cutting of two job streams simultaneously or separately. The conveyor located on the top of the cutter transports the already cut jobs to two cs350h compensated counting stackers with high feed units. The civiemee compensating stacker can produce high speed piles at speeds Up to 100,000 cph, and the processing method is also very smooth. The book stack is then released or strapped by a separate two-station palletizing stacker pl-robot100dual. The robot is capable of stacking pallets from one or two compensating stackers. It is connected to a gripper and can be used to extract one or two stacks according to different product formats. The stacking speed can exceed 800 packs per hour.

The entire postpress process is automated.

The operator only needs to pre-adjust the stacking equipment according to the size of the job to be processed, and pre-set the stacking data and job arrangement.

Spanish einsa company

Spain's einsaedicionesinformatizadass.a. company mainly produces telephone books, it is also a leading European printing company.

Einsa and civiemme have been closely cooperating since the late 1980s and are actively developing highly flexible and highly automated stacking equipment and stacking equipment.

The three 96-page KBA c618 presses of einsaalcobendas have been equipped with civiemme's bale stacking and stacking equipment systems since 1999. Like its KBA presses, the later Heidelberg sunday 4000/64-page presses (installed in 2003) also installed a similar post-press equipment system with two st420/120 bale stackers. - Used for high-speed production of 1200mm thick signature bundles. In addition, there is also a pl86dual bale stacker that can serve two stackers simultaneously.

Einsa is still investing in high-volume web presses. It later introduced a KBA c81864 printer, which was installed in July 2004 and can produce 128 pages. The civiemme post-press equipment system it is equipped with is similar to the output processing of the m4000 press. This system can handle a wide range of products - a5, a4, a3, doubleparallel format, is a highly automated solution to provide users with effective workflow and efficient production.