Danish Printer Orders First Gapless Newspaper Press
10/11/1999
Heidelberg Mainstream 80 to be installed at Dansk AvisTryk
A publisher that prints 1.5 million four-color newspapers a day in Copenhagen, Denmark will be the first to add Heidelberg's gapless Mainstream 80 press.
Dansk AvisTryk will install the new double width, shaftless Mainstream 80 in June next year, immediately after the press is unveiled for the first time at drupa 2000, according to chairman Sven Togsverd. "The demand for high-quality four-color newspapers continues to grow in Denmark, and we will utilize the new press to meet this demand," he explained.
The Mainstream 80 is the first newspaper press to incorporate gapless blanket cylinders, the most critical feature of Heidelberg's Sunday Technology. It will print up to 80,000 copies per hour with a one-page-around by four-pages-across plate cylinder configuration.
Dansk AvisTryk prints some of Denmark's largest domestic dailies, including the leading financial papers Borsen and Erhvervsbladet and the social democratic paper Aktuelt, as well as several editorial and advertising products. The new, two-web press will be configured with one five-high tower and one four-high tower. It will include Heidelberg's new Contiweb FD flying pasters as well as a JF-255 folder designed specifically for straight printing with the Mainstream.
Installation of the Mainstream 80 will continue a longstanding partnership between Heidelberg and Dansk AvisTryk. A six-web Heidelberg N-845A press, purchased in 1982, was responsible for the company's original exponential growth and success, according to Togsverd. Dansk AvisTryk replaced that press with its first Heidelberg Galaxy in 1990 in order to provide higher print quality and four-color production. A second 16-page Galaxy was brought on-line in 1994, and a third was installed in April of 1999.
Togsverd said the Mainstream 80's combination of high print quality and speed factored heavily in the purchase decision. The Mainstream also provides the plate-saving economy and design flexibility of a 1x4 plate cylinder configuration. The new press will expand domestic and export market opportunities, according to Togsverd.
Togsverd said also the five-high tower included in their configuration will allow Dansk to fully benefit from the flying edition change feature.
Heidelberg Web Systems technical sales specialist Antoine Chevalier, explains:"The one-around plate cylinder configuration of the Mainstream provides the flexibility of uneven paged sections and
two-page jumps and the synchronised AC motors facilitate flying edition changes".
Heidelberg introduced the first commercial web presses featuring gapless blankets, in 1993. Since then, more then 100 Sunday Press systems, including over 1,300 printing couples, have been installed in 13 countries. Many of these gapless commercial presses regularly run at speeds of 100,000 copies per hour for three shifts per day.
Heidelberg is currently testing the Mainstream 80, that will be in full operation at drupa 2000 in May.
For further information:
Heidelberg Web Systems
Joëlle Curet
Tel.: +33 (0)344 29 40 52
E-mail: joelle.curet@heidelberg.com
A publisher that prints 1.5 million four-color newspapers a day in Copenhagen, Denmark will be the first to add Heidelberg's gapless Mainstream 80 press.
Dansk AvisTryk will install the new double width, shaftless Mainstream 80 in June next year, immediately after the press is unveiled for the first time at drupa 2000, according to chairman Sven Togsverd. "The demand for high-quality four-color newspapers continues to grow in Denmark, and we will utilize the new press to meet this demand," he explained.
The Mainstream 80 is the first newspaper press to incorporate gapless blanket cylinders, the most critical feature of Heidelberg's Sunday Technology. It will print up to 80,000 copies per hour with a one-page-around by four-pages-across plate cylinder configuration.
Dansk AvisTryk prints some of Denmark's largest domestic dailies, including the leading financial papers Borsen and Erhvervsbladet and the social democratic paper Aktuelt, as well as several editorial and advertising products. The new, two-web press will be configured with one five-high tower and one four-high tower. It will include Heidelberg's new Contiweb FD flying pasters as well as a JF-255 folder designed specifically for straight printing with the Mainstream.
Installation of the Mainstream 80 will continue a longstanding partnership between Heidelberg and Dansk AvisTryk. A six-web Heidelberg N-845A press, purchased in 1982, was responsible for the company's original exponential growth and success, according to Togsverd. Dansk AvisTryk replaced that press with its first Heidelberg Galaxy in 1990 in order to provide higher print quality and four-color production. A second 16-page Galaxy was brought on-line in 1994, and a third was installed in April of 1999.
Togsverd said the Mainstream 80's combination of high print quality and speed factored heavily in the purchase decision. The Mainstream also provides the plate-saving economy and design flexibility of a 1x4 plate cylinder configuration. The new press will expand domestic and export market opportunities, according to Togsverd.
Togsverd said also the five-high tower included in their configuration will allow Dansk to fully benefit from the flying edition change feature.
Heidelberg Web Systems technical sales specialist Antoine Chevalier, explains:"The one-around plate cylinder configuration of the Mainstream provides the flexibility of uneven paged sections and
two-page jumps and the synchronised AC motors facilitate flying edition changes".
Heidelberg introduced the first commercial web presses featuring gapless blankets, in 1993. Since then, more then 100 Sunday Press systems, including over 1,300 printing couples, have been installed in 13 countries. Many of these gapless commercial presses regularly run at speeds of 100,000 copies per hour for three shifts per day.
Heidelberg is currently testing the Mainstream 80, that will be in full operation at drupa 2000 in May.
For further information:
Heidelberg Web Systems
Joëlle Curet
Tel.: +33 (0)344 29 40 52
E-mail: joelle.curet@heidelberg.com
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