Browns CTP Orders the World’s First Speedmaster CD 74-12PLX with CutStar |
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| 04.05.2005 |
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Browns CTP has ordered the longest B2 perfector sold to date. It has ordered the world’s first Speedmaster CD 74-12PLX, a 12-colour with coater and extended delivery, and with it the UK’s first CutStar in this format.
The press, which is the larger 600 x 740 millimetre packaging format machine, will be housed at a new 26,500 square feet purpose built factory that Browns CTP is having built in Oldham, two miles from its existing three building premises. This move will virtually double the company’s space and give it a better physical workflow.
The press is due to be delivered in September when the move takes place.
Managing director Andrew Brown says: "This press will make us even more price competitive, giving us a potential 30-40 percent increase on turnover, currently £4.5 million. The CutStar will reduce paper costs and increase throughput, combining to impact on the price of print we can offer our customers. Mostly we will run five back five with a seal on each side and the coater will enable us to match the coating we have on the Speedmaster SM 74-5L which it will replace. We will continue to offer spot varnish, remoist glue and other finishes in the B2 format. With a Speedmaster CD 74 you can print on a range of stocks without any fear of marking."
The company retains a Speemaster CD 102-5L and an Speedmaster
SM 52-5L giving its B1, B2 and B3 format options with special ink, seal and coating options at every level.
The new press will be equipped with Prinect Management Gate, meaning that Browns CTP has the potential to link in its Tharstern MIS system in a seamless workflow. Prepress Interface will take data from prepress to press (and back) to speed set up times and, working in tandem with an existing ImageControl spectrophotometry system run across all presses, it will have full closed loop colour. The prepress workflow will be updated as well the autumn delivery of Prinect Printready 2.0 software.
The company has also specified a technotrans ink pumping system with ink.trac, technotrans controls.
All 30 staff will make the transfer to the new site where the pressroom will continue to operate Continental shifts.
April 2005
For further information please call:
Diana Thompson, Plus Point PR Ltd, on 01494 817178
Or
Irene Duffy, Heidelberg UK, on 020 8490 3500
Or
Andrew Brown, Browns CTP, on 0161 627 0010
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