Evonprint Selects Long Perfector to Increase Competitiveness
05.10.2004
Evonprint plans to trade in two B2 presses for one long perfector
in a move to reduce its pressroom manning costs and to increase
efficiency and throughput. Out will go a four-colour Speedmaster SM
74 and a five-colour Komori Lithrone. In will come a Speedmaster SM
74-10P which will run alongside an Speedmaster SM 74-5 installed 18
months ago and an Speedmaster SM 52-2. The installation will take
place in December.
Steve Rowland, managing director of the West Sussex printer, says: "If we don't reinvest the savings we would make by having no capital repayments would be quickly eroded by increasing labour costs and falling prices. The only way to go is to invest to increase efficiency and produce more for less. Buying this long perfector is an investment for the company's continuing success."
There will be no staff reductions other than redeployment to other areas which are currently undermanned, preventing bottlenecks and smoothing overall production.
The company is upgrading the Topsetter 74 which it installed last year. With the Lithrone going out the company is standardising on plate sizes and so has opted to have an automatic plate feeding device. It currently outputs 2,000 to 2,500 plates a month and this could increase with the added capacity the new press will bring.
The company already uses Prinect Prepress Interface to link its prepress and press operations and this will be extended to the new press to enhance the speed and accuracy of makeready. A ten-colour will greatly increase the range of product options the company can offer its customers.
Evonprint generates from its Small Dole base a broad range of magazine and general commercial work, half generated from London and half from the Home Counties. It has a particular niche with government bodies, institutions, trade organisations, museums and galleries - clients which expose the company to least bad debt risk.
At the finishing end Evonprint is considering altering shift patterns to reduce the high level of outwork that it has. That would increase its control of work, from design to finished product.
Steve Rowland, managing director of the West Sussex printer, says: "If we don't reinvest the savings we would make by having no capital repayments would be quickly eroded by increasing labour costs and falling prices. The only way to go is to invest to increase efficiency and produce more for less. Buying this long perfector is an investment for the company's continuing success."
There will be no staff reductions other than redeployment to other areas which are currently undermanned, preventing bottlenecks and smoothing overall production.
The company is upgrading the Topsetter 74 which it installed last year. With the Lithrone going out the company is standardising on plate sizes and so has opted to have an automatic plate feeding device. It currently outputs 2,000 to 2,500 plates a month and this could increase with the added capacity the new press will bring.
The company already uses Prinect Prepress Interface to link its prepress and press operations and this will be extended to the new press to enhance the speed and accuracy of makeready. A ten-colour will greatly increase the range of product options the company can offer its customers.
Evonprint generates from its Small Dole base a broad range of magazine and general commercial work, half generated from London and half from the Home Counties. It has a particular niche with government bodies, institutions, trade organisations, museums and galleries - clients which expose the company to least bad debt risk.
At the finishing end Evonprint is considering altering shift patterns to reduce the high level of outwork that it has. That would increase its control of work, from design to finished product.
