100th Heidelberg CutStar Sold to British Print Shop
10/06/2005
One in four units goes to Great Britain
The one 100th CutStar sheeter sold by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is going to Eclipse Colour Printing in Kettering, Great Britain. It will be used with a Speedmaster SM 102-12P and is already the fourth CutStar to be installed at the company with a Speedmaster SM 102.
According to Managing Director Simon Moore, "The CutStar has further reduced the gap between web presses and large perfecting presses. The market for small web offset presses has kept on shrinking and sheetfed printing is now at the bottom end of the 16-page web market. A big advantage of the CutStar concept is the fact that cut-off lengths can be varied to suit the relevant print product. This saves a great deal of material, enabling sheetfed printing to compete with web printing for certain jobs with higher runs."
Eclipse works for top companies all over Britain, either directly or with print management service providers. As only a limited number of paper types are processed, mostly silk matt and gloss paper from 115 to 130 gram per square meter, many of its jobs are suitable for web printing because only a relatively small number of reel changes are required. Lighter grammages can also be processed.
Moore stated "We wouldn't invest in a large perfecting press without CutStar now. The investment pays for itself within a relatively short period and we incorporate it in our depreciation and renewal strategy. We replace our presses before they reach 100 million prints. This means we have no problem selling them on and we benefit from reliability and state-of-the-art technology."
According to Matthias Sieringhaus, Heidelberg Product Manager for the 70x100 format, "The CutStar combines several advantages: It cuts paper costs because reel stock is less expensive than sheet stock and the variable cut-off length results in optimal use. It cuts production costs too because it increases the utilization levels of Speedmaster presses. There are further benefits relating to the storage area required for reels, and printing with single-web paper is also possible."
A concept for success: The CutStar from Heidelberg
The CutStar enables users to process reel stock on the Heidelberg Speedmaster SM/CD 102, Speedmaster XL 105 and Speedmaster CD 74 presses. The web is fed to the cutting unit via a buffer and an infeed roller and cut to the required cut-off format, anywhere between 40 centimeter and the maximum sheet cut-off length of the press. Once the cutting process is finished, the sheet is guided to the shingling unit. Here, the rear edge of the sheet is lifted so that the following sheet can enter into the free gap. The stream of shingled stock produced in this way is then passed to the feeder. Paper from 50 to 300 gram per square meter and foil are suitable for use as printing stock.
Heidelberg launched the CutStar at drupa 2000. Since then, the company has sold 100 sheeters and sales figures have recently shown a particularly healthy increase. Customers in Great Britain account for around one quarter of these sales. 80 percent of CutStar units worldwide are installed with long perfecting presses, a product Heidelberg obtains from bielomatik Leuze GmbH and Co. KG in Neuffen (Germany).
Image:
Eclipse Colour Printing has installed the 100th Heidelberg CutStar with a 12-color Speedmaster SM 102. James Todd, sales director of Heidelberg UK (left), and Simon Moore, Managing Director of Eclipse Colour Printing.
For further information:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Corporate Communications
Hilde Weisser
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 50 66
Fax: +49 (0)6221 92 50 46
E-Mail: hilde.weisser@heidelberg.com
bielomatik Leuze GmbH und Co. KG
Wolfgang Birkmaier
Web Coater Sales
Tel.: +49 (0)7025 12 414
E-Mail: wolfgang.birkmaier@bielomatik.de
The one 100th CutStar sheeter sold by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is going to Eclipse Colour Printing in Kettering, Great Britain. It will be used with a Speedmaster SM 102-12P and is already the fourth CutStar to be installed at the company with a Speedmaster SM 102.
According to Managing Director Simon Moore, "The CutStar has further reduced the gap between web presses and large perfecting presses. The market for small web offset presses has kept on shrinking and sheetfed printing is now at the bottom end of the 16-page web market. A big advantage of the CutStar concept is the fact that cut-off lengths can be varied to suit the relevant print product. This saves a great deal of material, enabling sheetfed printing to compete with web printing for certain jobs with higher runs."
Eclipse works for top companies all over Britain, either directly or with print management service providers. As only a limited number of paper types are processed, mostly silk matt and gloss paper from 115 to 130 gram per square meter, many of its jobs are suitable for web printing because only a relatively small number of reel changes are required. Lighter grammages can also be processed.
Moore stated "We wouldn't invest in a large perfecting press without CutStar now. The investment pays for itself within a relatively short period and we incorporate it in our depreciation and renewal strategy. We replace our presses before they reach 100 million prints. This means we have no problem selling them on and we benefit from reliability and state-of-the-art technology."
According to Matthias Sieringhaus, Heidelberg Product Manager for the 70x100 format, "The CutStar combines several advantages: It cuts paper costs because reel stock is less expensive than sheet stock and the variable cut-off length results in optimal use. It cuts production costs too because it increases the utilization levels of Speedmaster presses. There are further benefits relating to the storage area required for reels, and printing with single-web paper is also possible."
A concept for success: The CutStar from Heidelberg
The CutStar enables users to process reel stock on the Heidelberg Speedmaster SM/CD 102, Speedmaster XL 105 and Speedmaster CD 74 presses. The web is fed to the cutting unit via a buffer and an infeed roller and cut to the required cut-off format, anywhere between 40 centimeter and the maximum sheet cut-off length of the press. Once the cutting process is finished, the sheet is guided to the shingling unit. Here, the rear edge of the sheet is lifted so that the following sheet can enter into the free gap. The stream of shingled stock produced in this way is then passed to the feeder. Paper from 50 to 300 gram per square meter and foil are suitable for use as printing stock.
Heidelberg launched the CutStar at drupa 2000. Since then, the company has sold 100 sheeters and sales figures have recently shown a particularly healthy increase. Customers in Great Britain account for around one quarter of these sales. 80 percent of CutStar units worldwide are installed with long perfecting presses, a product Heidelberg obtains from bielomatik Leuze GmbH and Co. KG in Neuffen (Germany).
Image:
Eclipse Colour Printing has installed the 100th Heidelberg CutStar with a 12-color Speedmaster SM 102. James Todd, sales director of Heidelberg UK (left), and Simon Moore, Managing Director of Eclipse Colour Printing.
For further information:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Corporate Communications
Hilde Weisser
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 50 66
Fax: +49 (0)6221 92 50 46
E-Mail: hilde.weisser@heidelberg.com
bielomatik Leuze GmbH und Co. KG
Wolfgang Birkmaier
Web Coater Sales
Tel.: +49 (0)7025 12 414
E-Mail: wolfgang.birkmaier@bielomatik.de
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