Offset Printing

Wayzgoose replaces two Komoris with a Speedmaster CD 102

The £1.3m press which goes into production in the next few days will be used to produce quality commercial work and greetings cards for a UK, European and international client base.

Tuesday 29. January 2008 - Wayzgoose in Sleaford has replaced two B1 Komori presses with a Speedmaster CD 102-5LX from Heidelberg. The £1.3m press which goes into production in the next few days will be used to produce quality commercial work and greetings cards for a UK, European and international client base.

The company was bought in 2005 by Peter Smith who has subsequently purchased Clearpoint, Nottingham (2006) and Abbotts, Lutterworth (2007) to create the £12m turnover Visual Communications Solutions (VCS) Group.

Mr Smith’s decision to switch to Heidelberg was heavily influenced by a six-, 12- and 18- month analysis of service costs across the VCS Group which had been running MAN Roland, Komori and Heidelberg machines. Heidelberg was the most reliable with least repair costs and so, after assessing machines from several German and Japanese suppliers, the Speedmaster was selected.

The company likes the quality and productivity of the CD and its ability to handle heavier stocks will allow it to eat through even the greetings card work, which can reach 1 million cards a month at peak periods. Five units give it the four process colours and a specials capability. The coating unit allows it to give an aesthetic lift to work and to get work through to finishing very fast without fear of marking.

Wayzgoose has been Print Colour Management audited by Heidelberg to ensure the quality replication on press is predictable and repeatable time after time. Prepress Interface and ImageControl spectrophotometry enables the company to set up the press automatically and get into production very fast with colour maintained throughout a run.

The commercial work handled includes corporate literature, company reports, educational and promotional material and medical journals. The company operates around the clock five to seven days a week to meet its customers deadlines.

Wayzgoose is named after the annual feast that used to be laid on by a master printer for his journeyman and apprentices.