HCP Looks to Increase Profit 40-50 Percent Using Heidelberg’s Prinect Workflow |
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| 13.06.2005 |
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Hogan Colour Print is replacing two Speedmaster SM 74 long perfectors with two Speedmaster CD 74 presses, a ten-colour and a 12-colour, and these will be Prinect networked into a fully JDF workflow as the company replaces a Tharstern MIS system with Heidelberg’s Prinance.
Managing director Paul Hogan says: “We are replacing SM 74s, a five year old eight-colour and three year old ten-colour, with CD technology because it will enable us to handle new products and offer something additional to our clients. We can now handle heavier boards and provide six back six production. Much work is four-colour with special and seal each side.
“This investment is all about efficiency because it is that which will keep us competitive and at the front in our market which is servicing print management companies and large plcs. By having a fully JDF-based network (which Heidelberg bundles under the name Prinect) and linking Prinance MIS and all areas of production together we believe we can increase our net profits by 40-50 percent and that is within an already efficient business generating £170,000 of business per employee.”
Prinance will come in over the summer and will take about a month to bed in. It will run alongside the Tharstern system for six to 12 months but will become the tool that generates estimates and also takes real life production data and helps management make the best costing, planning, customer service and strategic decisions. It can even identify where work is making most margin and where bottlenecks need to be overcome.
The ten-colour Speedmaster CD 74 arrives in August and the 12-colour next spring. Overall the company will have about 25 percent higher capacity and its sales will rise from £3.25 million to £4 million although it is profitability that is the focus.
With Prinect MetaDimension RIP, Prinect Printready prepress workflow automation, Prinect Prepress Interface bringing data to and from the press and on press spectrophotometry using ImageControl the company will have fully closed loop colour. To ensure the business works to the best possible standards it will undertake a Print Colour Management audit and implement workable ISO standards. Eventually the company wants to network in its finishing operations.
HCP runs a Topsetter 74P thermal CtP system at the front end and has added a new generation Heidelberg buckle Stahlfolder to enhance its finishing.
The Northampton company was set up as a B2 specialist at the start of year 2000. Today it operates treble shifts at its 15,000 sqaure-foot premises.
June 2005
For further information please contact:
Diana Thompson, Plus Point PR Ltd, on 01494 817178
or
Irene Duffy, Heidelberg UK, on 020 8490 3500
or
Paul Hogan, Hogan Colour Print, on 01604 708870
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