Value Added Printing

Value Added Printing for production efficiency and greater product value
Value Added Printing stands for higher production efficiency and product value. For commercial, publications and packaging printers, this means sophisticated applications and intelligent automation solutions for sheetfed presses.

In the past, short and very short runs meant that press makeready time exceeded actual printing time despite the considerable progress made in automation. The ultimate goal for success is to spend more time printing and less time making ready. The ROLAND 700 DirectDrive is aimed directly at printing companies with most run lengths below 5,000 sheets and for whom ten jobs per shift is not the exception. Plate cylinder direct drive permits different makeready tasks that before had to be carried out in succession to be performed simultaneously. This has a dramatic effect on makeready times, with first users reporting that productivity is increased by up to 35 percent.

Then there are the QuickChange modules for the ROLAND 700 DirectDrive and ROLAND 700 HiPrint which provide dramatic savings in makeready time and far fewer waste sheets as a result. QuickChange Job is for rapid job and substrate change-over; QuickChange Color saves time and costs through highly-precise ink slide settings, a Triple-Flow inking unit and modified engagement sequences; QuickChange Coating is for switching quickly from one type of coating to another; and QuickChange Clamp provides rapid coating form change-over.

Enhancement par excellence
With numerous inline modules, the ROLAND 700 HiPrint offers the best prerequisites for high quality printing. One, two or even more coating modules with the Ultima variant, for instance, provide the basis for a wide variety of inline enhancement with dispersion and/or UV coatings. The ROLAND InlineFoiler Prindor convinces with cold foil transfer in a quality previously only possible with hot foil stamping but without the system-inherent disadvantages (high temperatures that have an adverse effect on the substrate). Four-color overprinting of the foil creates the ultimate iridescent metallic effects. The ROLAND ColorPilot color control system and the ROLAND InlineInspector monitor the printing process to fully ensure consistently high quality.