Offset Printing

Cashin cashes in on Speedmaster productivity

Tuesday 14. December 2010 - Cashin Print in Castlebar, County Mayo, is the first Irish company to invest with Heidelberg since the manufacturer announced it would service the Republic direct. A Speedmaster SM 74-2-P will be delivered in January, replacing the last Komori press at the plant.

This new press is required for one of Cashin Print’s niche markets. It will process very lightweight stocks for the pharmaceutical market. This market remains quite robust internationally and there is a strong representation of the sector in the West of Ireland. Cashin handles some export work but most of the leaflets are supplied to the domestic market, although they are later shipped abroad.
The company also runs a Speedmaster SM 102-2-P and an XL 75-5+L. It has taken a Speedmaster a year over the past three years, converting completely to a Heidelberg pressroom.
“We bought the SM 102 first, believing that no other machine could match it on productivity for the profile of work we do. That proved to be the case and so we added the XL 75 full colour press and now the SM 74,” says managing director Damien Cashin.
The new press will run two-colour single sided or black and white two-sided work on a double day basis.
“We had conversations with other users who print on the same stocks and their productivity figures re-enforced our decision to purchase the Speedmaster SM 74,” saysMr Cashin.
“I think Heidelberg’s decision to work direct in Ireland is a positive thing. The service and support is pretty impressive. Shortly after Heidelberg UK had announced it was supporting Irish market direct we had a problem so we rang the Heidelberg service support number, however as it was out of normal hours there was an answer machine message asking to leave our contact details and machine number, which we did but not thinking that we would hear anything until the following day. About ten minutes later we had a phone call from an engineer, he logged onto our press, diagnosed that the problem and that we needed an engineer on site and organised it for the next day. We had expected an engineer to arrive the following day by mid morning due to the distance he had to travel however the engineer Mark Roberts was knocking on the door at 8am the following morning, resolved the issue and we were up and running. It was an amazing response.”