Offset Printing
NS Print upgrades its printing and cutting portfolio
Monday 26. July 2010 - NS Print is trading in five printing units for two but will still achieve a net gain in output. The decision to replace a four- and single-colour GTO with a Speedmaster SM 52-2 comes on the back of its success with the Printmaster PM52-5 installed two years ago.
“We were so impressed with the five-colour and its speed of setting up, inking, dampening and overall quality we came back for more. Todays press technology is infinitely better than equipment we bought 14 years ago although we were impressed back then,” says managing director Reg Parsons.
Operators are excited about the new investment which will mean working with one standard plate size. Customers stand to gain with cost-effective solutions, delivered speedily and to a high quality standard.
The press will be delivered to the NS Print factory in Noble Street, Wem (Shropshire) in May. It will handle the spot colour work for the company which produces a range of products from business cards to full colour brochures and promotional material for a wide regional base.
“We had kept the four-colour GTO to handle overspill from the PM52 but our operators have seen that they could handle full colour work in two passes faster on the SM 52 than in one pass on the GTO,” says Mr Parsons.
NS Print is also taking out a 19 year old Polar 76 guillotine to replace it with a Polar 78X. “The Polar 76 is still working fine but this is a precautionary buy, an update to a faster but equally robust machine,” says Mr Parsons. “We traded out the 19 year old which still has some trade in value but have kept on a Polar 72 which dates back to the early 1980s and which remains useful in the bindery for cutting the card and trimming backs of books and pads. It is still working well after all these years.”