Offset Printing
LYNHURST PRESS SEES GREAT POTENTIAL IN ITS NEW SCREEN TRUEPRESS 344
Tuesday 16. March 2010 - To buy new equipment in these times a printer must be absolutely certain he will see a return on his investment. Essex printer Lynhurst Press (www.lynhurstpress.co.uk) has that confidence in its recent purchase of a Screen Truepress 344 A3+ four-colour digital offset press.
Lynhurst Press is a 20-year-old, medium-sized B2 printer specialising in producing work for large publishing companies. Following a restructure last year, today the company operates three Komori offset presses in new premises close to Basildon with easy access to the M25. The addition of the Truepress 344 gives it the flexibility to service the diverse work from its customers and short-run work cost effectively. For example, an 80,000 run of a magazine is usually a straightforward litho job, but when it is divided into several languages, some of which may have only 50 copies, these elements are ideal for printing on the Truepress 344.
The Truepress 344 takes Lynhurst Press to the next level, says Lynhurst director Steve Samuels. “Short run and fast turnaround seems to be where the industry is heading,” he explains. “Pure digital is great as it doesn’t have the drying time and other advantages. But our customers would not be happy with the quality and that’s why we went for a digital offset press. It has all the advantages of speed, short run ability and flexibility of digital but with litho quality.”
The company has a long association with Screen, going back to 1997 when it bought a FTR-3050 imagesetter, then made the move to CTP with a PlateRite 4000 in 1999. This was followed by the first PlateRite 6600S B2+ platesetter in the UK which was installed in 2007. It is strength of this relationship that made the decision to buy the Truepress a relatively easy one.
Samuels is impressed with the productivity of the new acquisition. “The jobs are processed through Trueflow 6 workflow and eight minutes later you are running the job. Changing from one job to another happens in minutes which maximises its money-making potential,” he says.