Finishing & Screen Printing

Grunwald Printing Picks Up Speed and Cutting Accuracy with New POLAR 115 X

Monday 06. December 2010 - Grunwald Printing in Corpus Christi, Texas reports the addition of a high-speed, programmable POLAR 115 X cutter with 15" color display and touchscreen operation to its finishing department.

The new 45″ cutter replaces a 1974 POLAR guillotine, which was subsequently deployed to the company’s receiving area. The new POLAR 115 X yields benefits including faster cutting speed, label and distortion correction, and POLAR OptiKnife knife changing with operator guidance. Productivity is up by more than 20 percent, according to CEO John Grunwald.
The company, which acquired its first Heidelberg presses in the 1960s, today boasts an all-Heidelberg pressroom lineup, including a 5-color Speedmaster CD 102 with coater, a 2-color Speedmaster SM 102 perfector, a 4-color Speedmaster SM 52 with coater, a single-color, 20″ Heidelberg KORD, and a Printmaster QM 46-2, in addition to assorted Heidelberg Windmill and cylinder letterpress equipment, all of it still in use. Grunwald also makes use of assorted Saphira pressroom consumables, including Perfect Dot blankets. It also relies on Heidelberg Original Replacement Parts.
Grunwald Printing Company was founded in 1954 by Rudy and Clifton Grunwald with a hand-operated printing press. Today, third-generation CEO John Grunwald directs a full-service commercial printing operation with a staff of 35, capable of meeting the demands of graphic designers, ad agencies, corporations and trade clients, most located within 150 miles of Corpus Christi. The company offers high-quality sheetfed and digital printing, finishing, as well as a host of prepress, graphics and mailing services.