Offset Printing
Rapida 74 for Austrian print provider Staffner
Tuesday 26. February 2008 - Tyrolean family business offers print customers that decisive "something extra"
By incorporating UV equipment options, the press is able to handle spot finishing, hybrid effects and all-over coating of the printed sheets, meaning that such services no longer need to be outsourced. At the same time, the family-run enterprise expects further quality improvements for the printing of lenticular products, for example 3D, flip and morphing images. To accompany the new press, Staffner has invested also in a Magnus 400 Quantum CtP system with Prinergy workflow and VMR option, which brings capability for the use of 20 µm FM screening.
The high production output and fully automatic plate changing facility of the Rapida 74, which has also been placed on a plinth to maximise pile heights, represent ideal foundations for further boosting of production capacity and even faster job turnarounds. Furthermore, the press is equipped with the fully automatic colour measurement and control system DensiTronic S, which uses a multi-purpose measuring head to determine both colour densities and the spectral values of individual image elements. The whole print process complies with the latest FOGRA standards.
The new investments are to enable Staffner to react even more flexibly to the individual wishes of its customers – by offering that “something extra” which they cannot find elsewhere. A great deal of time and money is also being set aside to continue the extensive research work aimed at developing new optical effects for lenticular and plastics printing. The successes of recent years have confirmed that it was the right decision to specialise in this field. In 2004, Staffner printed a lenticular cover for the magazine “Inshape”, the first time that a magazine had been published with such a cover in Austria. When the Mozart Centre was opened in Salzburg in 2006, the official invitations were similarly printed on lenticular film. And Staffner kept the branch talking last year with its cover production for the first animated corporate report and the printing of a special Christmas card for Credit Suisse.