Speedmaster SX 52 - Meyer Rottal Druck

Based in Ruswil, in the Swiss Canton of Lucerne, Meyer Rottal Druck AG has always enjoyed great success with technology from Heidelberg. Following a Suprasetter A75 with Prinect Prepress Manager and Signa Station that was already installed, the print shop recently took delivery of a Speedmaster SX 52-5.

According to brothers Roland, Beat, and Thomas Meyer, "All the workflow components are perfectly interlinked because they come from the same total solution provider."

Replacing a two-color Printmaster GTO 52, the Speedmaster SX 52-5 now enables the family business with 16 staff to provide its customers with even better multicolor offset print products. "Thanks to its short makeready times, the short time it takes to reach full production speed, and its outstanding print quality, this press from the new SX generation gives us a clear competitive edge," the brothers agree.

The Speedmaster SX 52-5 is operated from the Prinect Press Center control station, which has an integrated Prinect Easy Control ink control system. The programmable washup functions for blanket, impression cylinder, and inking/dampening system, the Alcolor continuous-film dampening system, the process-oriented Intellistart operator guidance system, and the AutoPlate plate changer speed up makeready processes considerably and help the print engineers quickly achieve production stability. This enables Meyer Rottal Druck to offer competitive sheetfed offset printing for a wide range of run lengths.

Figure: Brothers Beat, Roland, and Thomas Meyer (1st, 3rd, and 4th from the left) with Pascal Rölli (right) and Markus Thim from Heidelberg Schweiz AG in front of the first Speedmaster SX 52-5 to be installed in Switzerland.