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Offset Printing
Komori advances
While this requires data processing within the machine, job progress, feedback on press performance and more is fed to the Komori Cloud as part of the company’s Connected Automation umbrella, that it had intended as the theme for drupa.
Its automation will include setting up MBO folders, now owned by Komori, and its Apressia guillotines and finishing equipment. It has developed hands-free operation for the Apressia CTX 132 guillotine, while the MBO K8 folder can come with a CoBo Stack pallet loading system, set up from the same job information that is fed to the press.
Komori said it will use robots to between an UV LED dryer press, and the folder and guillotine. Robots would also have been one of the striking features about drupa in June had the show gone ahead, with the print industry a print market for low cost robotics to move sheets of paper or board.
Komori said the Lithrone GX/G advance presses enable users to obtain a significantly higher return on investment than with the conventional Lithrone. Komori believes that it will be the indispensable press for printing company management in this new age.
The new presses are the Lithrone GX40 advance, Lithrone G40 advance, Lithrone GX40RP advance, and Lithrone G37P advance. The Lithrone GX40RP cardboard specification front/reverse multicolour offset printing press is a dedicated double-sided machine, that will lay down up to 10 colours on two sides in one pass without flipping the sheets. It is supported by the same lineup of mechatronics options and peripherals as the Lithrone GX40 and can be specified for either UV or H-UV printing.
Orders will be accepted beginning on 1 October. Komori is sold and serviced by Print & Pack in ANZ. 21
with new presses
Press manufacturing giant Komori is launching a new series Kof what it says are self-learning sheetfed presses.
omori would have responding to the lack of sufficient launched the Lithrone manpower, changes in work styles, GX/G advance series of B1 and digitalisation – the evolution of presses at drupa, but they the smart factory.
will now be seen through Komori says as a means of solving a series of open houses, webinars, these issues, the Lithrone GX/G
and videos. Komori says there is a dramatic reduction of touchpoints, by use of a self-learning function, and a new control platform for linkage of high-level printing systems.
The company says they have improvements from feeder to delivery and will use a robot to feed into folder and guillotine.
The company says the new presses have improved suitability for high- speed, long-run printing, and for short-run on demand printing. Carsten Wendler, managing director at Print & Pack, which supplies Komori in Australia and New Zealand, says, “It is an evolution rather than a revolution. Komori engineers have worked with the latest technology to improve the press from start to finish.”
The rationale for the new presses comes in particular, says Komori, from the demands for production of small lots, high added value products and short turnarounds have become urgent. It says to meet these demands, printing company management faces one of its most critical issues: to what extent can productivity in the printing process be raised. Other pressing issues
the printing industry faces include
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advance series presses were developed with top priority given to the following items, making it possible to attain high productivity and quality by means of easy operation.
Komori has strengthened collaboration with KP-Connect solution cloud, which enables the smart factory, including MIS, prepress and postpress. KP-Connect was developed based
on Komori’s Connected Automation concept. This realises strengthened collaboration and optimisation between processes as well as high-level automation with presets, based on information from high-end systems,
so contributing to productivity improvement throughout the entire printing process. Komori says that by optimising the dampening system,
the minimum-water Komorimatic
dot quality sharpness and stability is maintained, while suitability for high speed long run printing is improved.
There is also a new wall screen interface to download job settings and accelerate makereadies. The company says it has designed the user interface to reduce the number of operator touch points. It says the quality feedback loop is faster for greater consistency in colour. It says no
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