Finishing & Screen Printing

REAL Digital turns to Heidelberg for a fourth mailer

REAL Digital has come to Heidelberg for a fourth mailer to enable it to offer the fast, flexible service it has built its reputation on and to build on its growing turnover, currently running at £12m per annum.

Thursday 30. July 2009 - REAL Digital has come to Heidelberg for a fourth mailer to enable it to offer the fast, flexible service it has built its reputation on and to build on its growing turnover, currently running at £12m per annum.

The Croydon company still holds the record for the largest ever Heidelberg finishing order, worth over £1m. In addition to a cutter and intelligent eight-station stitcher, this included two mailers, a TD 142 and two TD 112 line’s. Now it is adding a second TH 66 Mailer with round pile feed to bring its total number of mailers to four.

“The round pile feeder makes the Stahlfolder TH 66 a very fast machine, capable of handling sheets of up to 660 x 1,280mm. We have a pool of about 15 or 16 mailing units to provide different finishing functions. The modular nature of the equipment we use enables us to create bespoke lines set to suit the unique requirements of a specific job. We regularly use eight or nine units in a line to cut, perf, fold and glue in one pass,” says production director Barry Stephens.

This means it can offer stop-start and intelligent perfing (where perfing can be turned on or off sheet by sheet during a production run), stop-start slitting, glueing (remoist, cold or hotmelt), card tipping and static pinning. REAL Digital has secured a reputation for inventive and innovative finishing solutions, even patenting some formats. It is a company which still believes that finishing can and does sell print.

The Croydon company handles work for a broad range of clients from utility companies, finance organisations and retailers to the Government and even other printers. It handles transactional billing and point of sale material as well as direct mail, using large format digital presses in tandem with a comprehensive range of complex finishes.

“We are a Heidelberg house so the choice was inevitable,” says Mr Stephens. “The service and support is very good and the relationship between the engineers, production team, sales personnel and our directors is first rate.”