Quality Ensures Strong Market Position
ROLAND 200 makes smaller printing companies more competitive
In the fiercely contested print product marketplace, smaller companies can be more successful if they are close to their customers and offer them something out of the ordinary. “Value Added Printing” – added value through differentiation – is a realistic business model for small printers as well.
Quality makes the difference
Quite naturally, a printing company wants to impress its customers with print product quality and this requires a high-performance press. The ROLAND 200, as a four-color machine only 5.4 metres long, has all the pre-requisites. Double-diameter impression cylinders and Transferters provide gentle sheet travel for substrates as thin as 0.04 mm paper and as thick as 0.8 mm carton or foil. Optional CardboardWheels on the Transferters support thick materials. This all adds up to printed sheets with no marking or scratches and full solids are therefore no problem. Efficience is exactly what the ROLAND 200 achieves with a level of automation that is unique in its format category. This includes automatic remote control of substrate thickness and register, taking over ink slide presetting data per Jobcard, and remote controlled inking. An inking-up program reduces makeready time even further with less waste. Options such as the EPL automatic plate changing system, blanket washers, or the ColorPilot smart online color control system enable even the shortest runs to be produced economically. Still, press technology alone is not enough. Efficient internal work processes are just as important for consistently high print quality.
Print and organizational quality: Satz & Druck Kemmerling
At Satz & Druck Kemmerling in Brilon, a ROLAND 200 guarantees production quality and flexibility which is precisely what this customer needs “We believe that our future depends a great deal on quality in all areas of our company which will keep us up among the leading media providers in the region.” Günter Kemmerling, Plant Manager of Satz & Druck Kemmerling GmbH in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, is fully committed to print and organizational quality.
DIN-ISO 16647-2 certification
This company with 13 employees has DIN-ISO 16647-2 certification from the German Printing and Media Industries Federation. PSO (Process Standard Offset) certification defines and checks print product quality based on metrological and visual parameters. This certification enables Satz & Druck Kemmerling GmbH to objectively and neutrally verify and document its high print product level to customers.
This certification demands a high standard at all levels of the company including staff qualifications and print assurance. All staff members are trained in modern production. Traineeships at Kemmerling are highly rated; trainees with a certificate from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce are not unusual here. The commitment to high class applies of course to printing presses as well: since 1992 Kemmerling has bought 35 MAN Roland printing units including this latest ROLAND 200. Besides this the machine park consists of a digital printing machine, a small offset press for short runs and private printed matter, a two-color ROLAND 300 perfector, and two ROLAND 500 presses with altogether eight printing units for long-run printing.
An ideal supplementary press
The ROLAND 200 serves as a classic supplementary press to ensure optimal production utilization. All the MAN Roland presses here have the same start-of-print. Because of the identical plate sizes, even the frequent repeat jobs can be produced on any of them which prevents production bottlenecks and also provides capacity for rush jobs. The job structure at Kemmerling includes a large number of catalogues in run lengths from 10,000 to 20,000 with 4 to 120 pages. Every quarter year more than 250 tonnes of paper are printed with 80 line/cm screens which indicates the quality of the jobs. With this job structure the compact small-format ROLAND 200 has a fast return on investment.
