Inkjet & Digital Printing
Screen (USA) and Standard Finishing Systems Team Up to Manufacture Books at Graph Expo 2008
Monday 27. October 2008 - Screen (USA) is partnering with Standard Finishing Systems at Graph Expo 2008 to demonstrate the ease of integrating Screen's Truepress Jet520 color inkjet web press with inline or near-line processing equipment.
The Screen booth (#3808) will feature the Truepress Jet520 full-color variable printing system equipped with the Standard Hunkeler UW6 unwinder and RW6 rewinder. The inline automated paper-handling systems provide constant web tension for uniformly tight, straight and even rolls.
In booth #2246, Standard Finishing Systems will perform near-line processing of paper rolls printed on the Truepress Jet520 and four-color book covers printed on the Screen Truepress 344 direct imaging press. The automated processing will result in 180-page perfect-bound books. The Truepress Jet520 can print each full-color book in less than two minutes.
Perfect-bound books
In the Standard booth, a UW6 unwinder will feed paper rolls containing full-color text pages to the Standard Hunkeler Gen6 CS6-II rotary double cutter at speeds up to 600 feet per minute. The CS6-II will produce fully bleed-trimmed color sheets. The Standard Hunkeler LS6 nonstop stacker will deliver offset stacked book blocks. The 180-page book blocks and covers will be perfect-bound on a Standard Horizon BQ-470 perfect binder, then trimmed on the Standard Horizon HT-70 three-knife trimmer.
Screen selected Enterprise DocuFlo 24-pound paper to give the inside pages an exceptionally smooth and uniform surface appearance. The finished covers will measure 8 1/2 x 11 inches front and back with a 0.4-inch spine.
Full-color covers
The Truepress 344 provides high-quality, on-demand printing, plus low-cost operation and ease of use. The two-page, four-color press prints at a rate of 7,000 sheets per hour. It utilizes a thermal multi-array laser diode imaging system to expose processless plates. The conventional wet offset printing process, with traditional inks and paper, provides true lithographic quality with economical running costs. Screen will demonstrate the Truepress 344 in booth #3808 at Graph Expo. Screen also will demonstrate the Truepress Jet2500UV grand-format UV inkjet printer.
An industry first
King Printing Co., Inc., a 100-employee book manufacturer in Lowell, Mass., designed and assembled the inside color pages of this book. King Printing has been a fixture on the short-run and medium-run book manufacturing scene since its founding in 1978. The full-service company caters to the educational and trade publishing markets. It supplies nationally recognized publishers and university presses with book quantities as small as 50 copies and as many as 50,000 copies. King Printing was the first national book manufacturer to utilize the Truepress Jet520 in a production setting.