Inkjet & Digital Printing
Screens Truepress Jet520 offers increased flexibility for a wide range of applications
Thursday 29. May 2008 - Screens Truepress Jet520 has developed into one of the most flexible digital presses on the market since its announcement in 2006. This has been confirmed with sales to printers of direct mail, transactional documents and books.
At Drupa 2008, the machines ability to be used across a wide range of applications is further extended with the release of the single engine duplex machine and a new high speed model.
On its Drupa stand in Hall 8b, Screen features two separate lines focusing on different applications. A full duplex line (two engines) will highlight newspaper production with live printing of several major international publications including the Daily Mail, Le Monde, El Pais and Asahi Shimbun. The newspaper will be finished on-line to a Hunkeler newspaper system. When it is not printing newspapers, this line will be used for printing a range of Print on Demand applications such as books.
As part of its on-demand newspaper solution, Screen will demonstrate its dedicated newspaper workflow application Newsworker. Newsworker is an InDesign-based tool that automates newspaper production from the receipt of a publishers PDFs.
The second line will be the first European demonstration of the Single Engine Duplex (SED) machine. The SED has the flexibility to print either the full width of the machine (520mm) on one side of the paper (simplex) or up to 250mm on both sides (duplex). During the show, this line will concentrate on variable data applications such as direct mail and transpromo.
Several of the jobs that will be output on the SED machine will be created using Screens new variable data application Varystudio. Varystudio can be used to create variable data files with output optimized for the Truepress Jet520 and like Newsworker, Varystudio is very easy to use as it is also based on Adobe InDesign.
Yoshinori Tsuruya , Vice President and Director of POD Business Division, Media and Precision Technology, expressed his satisfaction with the success of the product over the first 12 months of sales: “This is a machine that is available today and one that is already being used to produce a wide range of different work. Through our own sales channels and those of our partners, we have installed more than 50 engines. With different machine specifications, different inks, different finishing options and different workflow solutions for specific markets, we feel the Truepress Jet520 is the most flexible high-speed inkjet machine on the market.”