Offset Printing

Central Florida Press Installs First manroland DirectDrive Press

Tuesday 22. July 2008 - Orlando printer will be first to have 10-Color unit

Central Florida Press (CFP), a division of The MATLET Group, the largest minority owned commercial printing company in the U.S., is installing the first ROLAND 700 DirectDrive press.

What makes this press noteworthy is that it reduces the time to perform make-ready tasks. Plate changing and wash-up occurs simultaneously thereby eliminating plate-changing time. Both CFP and its customers will save a substantial amount of time and money in the process. No other 40-inch press offers such value-added options. manroland received a 2007 Intertech Award from PIA/GATF (Graphic Arts Technical Foundation) for the DirectDrive system.

A leader in new and innovative approaches, Central Florida Press was also the first company in its region with half web and full web presses. CFP employs 200 people and does the majority of their work handling commercial printing for some of the largest tourism attractions in Florida. They are also the largest menu printer for the casual dining industry, which supports a 24/7 operation.

“We are extremely pleased to be the first printing operation to install manroland’s DirectDrive press,” said John Glick, CFP’s Senior Vice President of Sales. “We saw the DirectDrive prototype at Drupa four years ago. We returned to Germany about a year ago to see the press and were impressed by what we saw.”

Central Florida Press expects to have the press ready for operation in mid-to-late September.