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Heidelberg passes the 100 mark for UK Inpress Control sales

Wednesday 25. September 2013 - In the UK alone Heidelberg has sold 100 presses with Inpress Control fitted. The 100th press with the automated spectral colour and register measurement device was the Speedmaster XL 106-6+L installed at Geoff Neal Litho in Feltham.

Heidelberg was the first to offer closed loop colour control mounted on a sheetfed press when it was launched at Ipex 2006. It is a system that eliminates the need to run up to colour, pull sheets, measure and adjust colour. It automates the entire process, slashes makeready times and means that colour control is retained throughout the run.
Geoff Neal, founder of the 37 year old company that bears his name, says: “Inpress Control gives you the ability to prove to clients that you are printing to a very high standard because it reads sheets throughout the run and we can produce a read out. If the colour deviates even slightly from the pass sheet this device automatically brings it back into line. Even the highest end and most challenging work will achieve colour consistency.
“It halves the makeready time of a press without Inpress Control and it reduces waste because the machine is getting up to colour that much faster. Without Inpress Control we would use 300 to 400 sheets to get colour correct and now it’s less than half that and we are very fussy about colour here. We run to very high standards.”
Geoff Neal Litho has had both its Speedmaster XL B1 presses calibrated to enable it to match the ISO 12647-2 colour standard.
Jim Todd, sales director, says: “Inpress Control is part of a family of spectral devices we can offer to match all colour needs and budgets. When it was launched we knew it was special, putting science into colour control but also operating without all the stop and start processes you get with offline colour measurement. It sells well and is almost a standard in B1 format and popular in B2 because the payback in terms or productivity and quality control are so transparent.”