Offset Printing

Estonian book printer soars to new heights

Thursday 25. August 2016 - Tallinna Raamatutrükikoda install new eight-color ROLAND 708P HiPrint with SPL and InlineColorPilot to its existing fleet

Founded in 1985, Tallinna Raamatutrükikoda (Tallinn Book Printers) is the first printing house exclusively specializing in printing and binding books. After three decades, the company has become one of the leading book printers in Estonia with export share of 60%. The site covers an area of 15,000 square meters and employs around 130 staff.

Board Member Mr. Veljo Vihmann, summarized the company’s success “Great ideas, professional skills and close collaboration with the customers always guarantee good results.”

Mr Vihmann puts this down to the company’s technology advances and management systems.

In 2002, they bought their first ROLAND 700; with two further ROLAND 700’s in 2005 and 2007.

In 2016 the company updated their fleet with a new ROLAND 708 P 4/4 HiPrint with SPL and InlineColorPilot, to replace the 2002 press.

“It’s typical for our market to print short runs. This is why we need a press to reduce the cost per copy, increase production capacity and productivity especially in the peak season periods. We are so pleased that this new press can do all these” Mr Veljo Vihmann added.

SPL (Simultaneous Plate Loading) can significantly save on make ready times and labour cost because the printing plates in all printing units can be changed at the same time and during the automatic washing prosess.

The InlineColorPilot with InlineRegister function not only ensures the color consistency, but also further reduces the make ready time, because it automatically measures and regulates the ink density and register accuracy from both sides, and detects and corrects inline even the slightest deviation at full production speed without the need to pull sheets out of the press.

All contributing factors of reducing the cost per copy and excellent print quality.

Automation options on the ROLAND 700 like InlineColorPilot and SPL (Simultaneous Plate Loading) systems have significantly improved productivity with savings on cost

Mr Veljo Vihmann thanked Manroland Sheetfed for the strong support and excellent after sales service over the years. “These are key factors when we make decisions on new investments” he said.