Inkjet & Digital Printing
SOUTH AFRICAN PRINTER BEGINS HIGH-SPEED PRODUCTON OF PAPERBACK BOOKS USING DELPHAX CR 2000 DIGITAL PRESS
Thursday 14. April 2011 - Delphax Technologies Inc., a global provider of high-speed digital printing systems, announced that a Delphax CR2000 digital web press has been installed for the production of paperback books by Lexlines Press (Pty) Ltd., part of the Formeset Group based in Cape Town, South Africa.
The press has been integrated with a complete Hunkeler CS6 roll-to-sheet finishing solution in an in-line production system that can produce 300-page books at the rate of one every five seconds. Lexlines sourced the CR Series system for its high volume and productivity capability. At 450 feet per minute it is the fastest toner-based digital web in the Formeset Group, said Mike Wiese, Lexlines general manager.
Delphax Technologies worked closely with Thunderbolt Solutions, its South African distributor, to jointly implement the system. The CR2000s speed and flexibility have led to plans that are now being implemented to provide its capabilities to the direct mail and business forms offerings of the Formeset Group.
Lexlines started operations in Cape Town in 1969 and after a period of significant growth is recognized today as one of the leading companies in the continuous printing market in South Africa. The Formeset Group is the largest fully empowered and independent general and commercial printing group in South Africa and consists of a broad base of well-respected printing companies in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Delphaxs CR Series presses help publishers minimize inventories, warehousing costs and the risk of inventory obsolescence. Direct advantages include improved cycle times, higher productivity and reduced labor costs. The range of production capabilities also allows CR Series users to increase the amount of short run work transferred from offset presses, extending the benefits of print-on-demand and freeing up valuable offset press time better suited economically for other kinds of projects.