Finishing & Screen Printing
New ProLiner Inserting System for Main-Echo
Monday 14. January 2008 - The future mailroom system makes it possible for Main-Echo publishing house to efficiently produce newspapers with up to nine inserted pre-printed sections and supplements. With additional, automatic pre-inserting production, up to 18 inserted products can be delivered to the readers.
Networking of all the processes with the MPC control system enables industrial production for multiple zones and complex package structures. Should market conditions change, then the modular structure of the system can later easily be adapted to the new demands.
The Main-Echo publishing house in Aschaffenburg, Germany is especially known for the daily of the same name, Main-Echo, which, along with three regional titles informs around 275,000 readers in the region between Frankfurt and Wurzburg on a daily basis. In the framework of an overhaul of the mailroom equipment, a ProLiner inserting system will be installed in mid 2008, which will replace the machine of a competitor.
Printing is done on a MAN Colorman with two fold deliveries. In the future, the products with be stacked on four NewsStack package lines or rolled up on a FlexiRoll buffer with seven rolls for further processing and briskly fed into the ProLiner inserting system, paced if needed. That separates the mailroom from the press. This way both units can produce at optimal speed and without interdependence. The advantages: Higher efficiency and reliable production.
After automatic loading of the ProLiners with main and pre-printed sections from the buffer, eight streamfeeder stations are available for manual loading with advertising supplements. Integrated production controls ensure that the complete newspapers reach the readers. Four NewsStack compensating stackers with the corresponding top sheet applications by automation assume stack formation. The loading dock system ensures controlled and logged distribution of the packages on the trucks.
The Mailroom Production Control System (MPC) directs all the equipment. It allows extremely quick production preparations and offers optimum flexibility in case there are changes during production. The integrated InsertModule eases the production of challenging zone orders for the operator and thereby increases efficiency and net output in the mailroom.
In the future, the complete edition of Main-Echo (approx. 90,000 copies daily) will be processed on the new equipment for the Aschaffenburg region with eight split run editions as well as the weekly advertising journal Top-Shop (240,000 copies).