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Technology Promotion
Screen offset CTP goes
Hinto SA/Vic print group
ansen Design and Print, The Screen 4600E is a 4-page established more than thermal plate recorder, using the sixty years ago and latest generation 16-channel fiber now run by second- laser diodes, supporting plate sizes generation Rob Hansen up to 830mm x 660mm, down to
and his team of twenty, operates 324mm x 330mm, or less with the
five sites in towns surrounding the SA-Victorian border including Bordertown, Naracoorte, Mt Gambier, Horsham and Ararat.
A new Screen PlateRite 4600E is located at the Naracoorte operation and is serving four Heidleberg presses with Fujifilm Superia
ZP processless plates. Since the installation, Hansen says the CTP “hasn’t missed a beat” and he says he is happy with both the machine and the chemistry-free plates that can go straight onto the presses – and he is also complimentary about the way Fujifilm’s SA state manager James Young handled the whole process.
small plate option. It can image 11 full-size plates per hour at 2400dpi. Other models are the 32-channel
S version at 21 plates per hour and the 64-channel Z model at 33 plates per hour. Single and multi-cassette autoloaders are available as options.
Screen’s PlateRite CTP devices cover the 4,8,16, 24, 36, 40 and 48- page VLF formats, with the B1 8-up models commanding well over 50 per cent of the world market.
Screen GP Australia managing director Peter Scott says: “It’s great to be able to be part of Hansen Print & Design’s move to processless plates with a CTP device that uses a lot
less power, no chemicals, and with
New Screen CTP: Rob Hansen
longer-lasting fiber laser diodes. “The CTP market is mainly a replacement one today, due to the
effect of digital print and offset plant consolidation, but Screen and its channel partners such as Fujifilm, continue to innovate and come up with new generation plates and setters,” Scott says. 21
Screen research shows printed textbooks are preferred
Screen’s American operation is sponsoring research, together with the Book Manufacturers Institute, into physical-vs-online learning, and the results are startling.
More than 80 per cent of parents believe that physical books are a better way of educating their children. Some 88 per cent want books to continue to be part of classroom education.
The report notes that, “Parents’ frustrations with online learning have been amplified during the pandemic lockdown. There’s a greater temptation for children to wander away from
their studies, and onto more amusing platforms when learning on a digital device, the study found. More than 80
per cent of those surveyed indicated that print materials would definitely improve home instruction.”
Screen GP Australia managing director Peter Scott agrees. “With a restored interest in printed educational materials, Screen is well prepared
to meet the latest demands of book printers with its high-speed inkjet portfolio, particularly with the Truepress Jet520HD series.
“Offering speed, quality and flexibility, the Truepress Jet520HD allows book printers the ability to run a fixed number of copies and avoid printing excess inventory that typically coincides with an offset press. Having the ability to produce the exact number of copies needed on-
demand, as well as additional copies at a later date, is a huge advantage for those in publishing and education.”
The Truepress Jet520HD is a high- definition digital inkjet press suited to the production of on-demand books in full colour. A mono version, capable of 150 metres per minute, is available for trade paperbacks and black-and- white textbooks. A range of finishing and binding options are available from companies such as Hunkeler, Horizon and Technau.
When running Screen’s SC Inks,
the full-colour 520HD can print on standard offset stocks, with the results, Screen says, indistinguishable from offset lithography. 21
Printing onto standard offset stocks: Screen 520HDwith SC inks
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