Offset Printing
Falkland Press cites XL 75 technology as productivity tool
Monday 04. January 2010 - Hatfield company Falkland Press has specified a five colour perfector with coater and Prepress Interface for fast set up and accurate air and colour settings. It replaces a SM 74-6.
In the four and a half years since Jonathan Lancaster joined his father he has completely re-equipped the business and taken monthly takings from £25,000 to £200,000 a month. At 26 years old, he is probably the youngest UK printer to have ordered a Speedmaster XL 75 press to date.
Falkland Press has both litho (B2 and B3) and colour digital services and a very broad range of finishing equipment including foil blocking, laminating, embossing, die-cutting and comprehensive gluing options. Its sophisticated and highly intuitive e-commerce site (printedeasy.com) designed for professional designers and print buyers is also generating more and more work.
With closed loop connectivity Falkland Press believes it will have the colour control it needs to gang jobs up on the sheet. Five printing units enables it to handle special Pantone colours and the coater means it can speedily move to finishing processes with no fear of marking. This is the companys first press with an Inkstar cartridge system which Mr Lancaster views as a vital tool for high productivity efficiency and pressroom cleanliness.
“The XL 75 with its anti-marking technology, including the automatic air setting, is ideal for the type of high speed, quality production we handle,” says Mr Lancaster. “We see it as a machine that is robust enough to take us from double day, five day a week production to run 24 hours cost-effectively.”
The minders visited Heidelbergs national showroom inTamworth and were impressed by the productivity of the press.
Falkland Press, named after the road it was in when founded 34 years ago, moved last year to new 10,000sq ft premises in Hatfield, adjacent to the A1. It handles both commercial and packaging print.