Printera Group’s new eight colour Komori GL840P advance perfector is equipped with a coating unit and its new four colour GL440 advance has LED-UV drying. The installation elevates the group’s entire litho press fleet to B1 format and expands production and turnaround flexibilities.
Croatia based Printera Group produces an extensive range of commercial print, including brochures and magazines, catalogues, culinary books, children’s books, novels, monographs and point-of-sale material.
Printera is a privately owned printing house established over 30 years ago. Visionary owners and directors Robert Jurica Krajačić and Draženko Mamić joined forces to launch the Printera project.
Said Jurica Krajačić, ‘We’ve always strived to differentiate and elevate our group by continuously committing to innovate, deliver excellent quality and provide unwavering customer service. We look for suppliers with the same business philosophies as ours and we identified exactly that with Komori. So, in 2015, after years of using KBA and Heidelberg machines, we acquired our first Komori Lithrone, the eight-colour G840P perfector with H-UV drying, which replaced a KBA Rapida 105-8. This marked our introduction to UV, making us the only printing house in the area able to offer the benefits of H-UV technology to our customers. As we’ve come to expect with most innovations, it was not without its challenges, however, we have a highly skilled workforce who relish new technologies themselves and, as the exceptional benefits of H-UV soon became apparent, it was all worthwhile.’
‘Now, eight years later, we have even more facilities to tailor our printing techniques to the specific requirements of each project. Moreover, with the extended range of technological options which the two new Komori GL40’s provide we can work proactively with customers to help them develop their own innovative solutions. For example, for immediate drying across the widest range of substrates, we can use H-UV on our Lithrone G840, and LED-UV on our new GL440 advance. With the coater on our new GL840P, we can provide a wide variety of varnish and coating options, including 3D, after printing eight colours all in a single pass.’
‘This extension of our litho technology is also opening up a wealth of new opportunities to serve customers in the packaging industry. The LED-UV machine enables us to print on plastics, transparent materials, and paper laminated with aluminium foils. And where the digital print is the best solution, we can turn to the state-of-the-art Konica Minolta and Ricoh machines in our digital printing department.’
With their higher running speeds and quicker, automated job changeover times, the two new Komori GL40’s are capable of delivering between them around 30,000 sheets an hour. To optimise this, Printera Group has equipped its pre-press and finishing departments with technology to ensure the quickest overall throughput. The Kodak CTP Trendsetter system in pre-press enables precise, ultra-fast plate production and the finishing department houses an exceptionally comprehensive bank of finishing equipment. This includes HORIZON folding machines, Aster thread sewing machines, Muller Martini Bravo+ wire sewing machines, soft binding with PUR Muller Martini Acoro 6, and Perfekta cutting machines. Kolbus hardcover machines complete the many books, catalogues and monographs which Printera produces.
Added Mamić: ‘The demand for such top quality printed materials remains strong and with our average orders ranging between 500 and 3000, the highest print quality is paramount at all times. To ensure this is maintained on every print, sheets on our machines are meticulously monitored with inline cameras such as Komori’s ground-breaking Print Quality Assessment (PQA) System. We’re in a world where quality and innovation meet, and our unequivocable purpose at Printera Group is to continue to redefine, shape and uplift the standards of the printing industry.’
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