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29th April 2015
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ISSN 1868-9779 • 24. Jahrgang
Arka-Druk puts world‘s first Promatrix 106 CS die cutter from Heidelberg into production
First Promatrix 106 CS die cutter
Polish packaging print shop
Arka-Druk in Lapy near Bialystok has begun production
with the world’s first Promatrix 106 CS die cutter. At an
open house event at the end
of March this year, other Polish printers witnessed this
world premiere with practical
demonstrations and were provided with comprehensive
technical information. The
Promatrix 106 CS is the first
machine to result from the
partnership concluded last fall
between Chinese manufacturer Masterwork Machinery
Co. Ltd. (MK) and Heidelberg.
The machine is being sold
exclusively by Heidelberg.
Index
First Promatrix 106 CS
die cutter
...1
Aller Tryk chooses EFI
Monarch Productivity Suite...2
Pageflex acquires
EarthIntegrate...2
OKI Europe expands its
portfolio of Smart MFPs
with new MC800 Series ...2
Drytac announces
immediate availability of
Polar HiGrab
...3
Arthur Bach (center), owner of Arka-Druk, is delighted with the Promatrix 106
CS. Also at the event were Dr. Frank Schaum (right), head of Postpress, and Krzysztof Pindral, head of Heidelberg Poland.
Following lengthy and extensive testing, Arka-Druk is now benefiting
from the comprehensive standard
features of the Promatrix 106 CS and
is delighted with the high quality.
Arka-Druk was founded in 2000, has
70 employees, and supplies discerning customers in the packaging industry, including pharmaceutical and
cosmetics companies. Its excellent
experiences with the Varimatrix 105
CS die cutter and Easygluer 100 folding carton gluing machine, also installed by Heidelberg, underpinned
its decision to purchase the Promatrix 106 CS. “We were looking for a
die cutter for runs and lead times
that are becoming ever shorter,” explains owner Arthur Bach. “The tests
with the Promatrix 106 CS met all
our expectations. The die cutter fits
in well with our concept of industrial production with structured processes and delivers high quality with
reliable production,” he adds.
Heidelberg unveiled the Promatrix
106 CS last fall at the Packaging Days
held in Hall 11 at its Wiesloch-Walldorf site. The machine impresses with
a wide range of standard features,
extremely user-friendly operation,
and an attractive price-performance
ratio. The Promatrix 106 CS performs
die cutting and embossing at a speed
of 8,000 sheets per hour for a 760 ×
1,060 millimeter (29.92 × 41.73 inch)
format. Thanks to its short makeready
times, users benefit from high productivity and excellent cost-efficiency.
It can handle a wide range of materials - from 90 all the way up to 2,000
grams per square meter - and also
processes corrugated board up to
four millimeters (0.16 inches) thick.
“We’re delighted the Promatrix 106
CS has been so well received by the
customer. Other machines sold to
European customers are almost ready
for delivery,” confirms Dr. Frank
Schaum, head of Postpress at Heidelberg. The Heidelberg sales team
works closely with product management at MK. This ensures new products meet customers’ technical and
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commercial requirements. “We will
continue to develop the product
portfolio with MK in the medium
term. Our objective in doing so is to
supply the right machines and solutions to ensure effective folding carton production, complete with the
appropriate service activities,” explains Schaum. Customers also enjoy
access to the Heidelberg global sales
and service network.
Aller Tryk chooses
EFI Monarch
Productivity Suite
EFI announced that Aller Tryk, located
in Taastrup, Denmark, has chosen to
automate its entire operation with
EFI Monarch Productivity Suite. In
search of a solution to manage its
high-volume operation Aller Tryk
wanted a powerful system from a reliable company that would be around
to support them well into the future.
With 115 employees churning out 3
million magazines each week along
with a wide variety of catalogues and
brochures, Aller Tryk currently operates out of two plants, one in Denmark and the second in Norway. The
company’s goal, however, is to consolidate operations moving all production to Denmark. Their strategy
is to rely more on technology to increase productivity while reducing
overhead costs, an absolute necessity
in a competitive market.
“We’ve just purchased a new ManRoland press that allows us to produce more than what two of our old
presses did. We operate 24/6 so we
needed a system that is up to the task
and that will also allow us to make
our workflow better with end-to-end
automation,” said John Andreasen,
Aller Tryk’s chief financial officer.
According to Andreasen the company’s previous MIS system was in need
of a major update but the company
Aller Tryk purchased it from went
out of business. “That was the second key factor in our choice of EFI.
The company has gained a very positive reputation and we know they
will be in business for a long time
and that we’ll have ongoing support,” he said. Andreasen also appreciates EFI’s promise of regular syn-
chronised upgrades to every component of their specific certified workflow, as part of the Productivity
Suite’s delivered value.
Andreasen added a third reason for
choosing the Productivity Suite with
EFI Monarch MIS/ERP at its core. “We
included Auto-Count in our Monarch
configuration. Because we operate
around the clock, the ability to automatically collect up-to-the minute
production data including counts,
press status, speed and other critical
information directly from our equipment is invaluable.”
Aller Tryk enjoys a reputation for
providing the highest quality printing with the ability to turn projects
around with speed and agility. Their
most recent investments promise to
further support that reputation.
“We are very proud at EFI to be partnering with a reputed partner such
as Aller Tryk,” said Steffen Haaga,
EFI’s director of MIS sales EMEA.
“Their choosing EFI is testimony to
our ongoing investment and our expanding footprint in the European
market as the world’s number one
provider of software solutions in the
printing and packaging space.”
Pageflex acquires
EarthIntegrate
Pageflex, a leading developer of enterprise variable data publishing,
multi-channel marketing, and webto-print solutions, announced that it
has completed the process of acquiring EarthIntegrate. EarthIntegrate
has developed Pando, a leading Software as a Service (SaaS) Localized
Marketing Automation solution, for
the Financial Services industry. The
combined company and product offering will result in the industry’s
most comprehensive sales-driven
marketing automation platform.
“EarthIntegrate’s foundation was
built by combining the Pageflex
product lines into a truly integrated
marketing suite for marketing and
sales teams. This presented an obvious opportunity for the future
growth of our business. The acquisition of EarthIntegrate offers clear
strategic benefits by combining two
highly complementary organizations
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and product lines into a next generation Localized Marketing Automation platform,” says Pinhas Romik,
CEO and President of Pageflex Inc.
“Having been a long time customer
of Pageflex and their technology, we
were excited at the opportunity to
more closely link our organizations.
This acquisition offers EarthIntegrate
customers’ greater stability by joining EarthIntegrate’s custom development resources with those focused
on base software development. The
combination of these two organizations creates a new kind of industry
leader -- one focused on customer
experience and a better way to manage the critical aspects of sales and
marketing as they relate to client
communications,” says Ryan Farris,
President of EarthIntegrate.
In addition to supporting current clients with a more robust offering,
the united organization will be positioned to deliver the Pando by
Pageflex Localized Marketing Automation platform at a price range attractive to mid-market organizations.
Pando by Pageflex will deliver a
seamless sales and marketing experience differentiated by its ability to
execute across multiple channels
while creating efficiencies and improving productivity in the sales process. Pando by Pageflex will bring a
broader scope of capabilities to current and future clients of the combined organization.
OKI Europe expands its
portfolio of Smart MFPs
with new MC800 Series
OKI Europe Ltd has launched a new
range of A3 smart multifunction
printers (MFPs) with intelligent, user-friendly features and enhanced
functionality. These powerful, smart
MFPs provide additional levels of
business productivity through sXP
(smart Extendable Platform), OKI’s
embedded open platform offering
enhanced workflow integration and
document management across the
business.
Backed by OKI Europe’s 3 year extended warranty, the MC853 and
MC873 smart MFPs offer the reliability of OKI’s pioneering digital LED
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print technology with the added
functionality and performance of
more costly and complex copier-based
devices, making them a perfect,
cost-effective alternative. The devices
are well-suited to small-to-mediumsized businesses, as well as departments within larger organisations.
“Easy-to-use with fast print speeds,
the new MC800 Series is an all-in-one
solution to a wide variety of business
needs,” says Tetsuya Kuri, vice president product marketing, EMEA, OKI
Europe Ltd. “A sleek new design, user-friendly features and embedded
sXP make these new devices ideal for
taking control of document intensive
processes within small to medium
workgroups. In addition, they are
perfect for supporting day-to-day colour and mono A3 and A4 print requirements for a broad range of businesses and industry sectors.”
The new ergonomic design includes
a customisable touch screen panel
with a lift-up mechanism which moves
with the device, making it easy for
users to follow the menu screen. Businesses can programme their own popular print and copy jobs as individual
function commands. The user-friendly
smart MFPs also feature a comprehensive guided help function, two
output bins and convenience stapling
as standard.
With print speeds of up to 35 pages
per minute (ppm) and scan speeds of
50 impressions per minute (ipm), together with OKI’s A3 LED scanner, the
smart MFP delivers fast, efficient performance. All models are Google
Cloud Print ready and AirPrint [2]
ready. Additionally document intensive office tasks are made more agile
with ABBYY FineReader Sprint OCR
(Optical Character Recognition) software, a downloadable PC/Mac desktop application that is available free
of charge to OKI smart MFP customers. This powerful software enables
users to quickly and easily convert paper documents, as well as PDF files
and images, into editable and searchable text in 190 different languages.
A recent IDC white paper, sponsored
by OKI Europe, highlights that 66%
of European SMBs value the ability
to automate business processes and
access documents from a single location. The MC853 and MC873 ad-
dress this specific requirement. These
smart MFPs have sXP, OKI’s open API,
enabling them to connect with powerful software for seamless document workflow integration ensuring
these MFPs are well-suited to a range
of industries, including schools and
financial institutes.
The MC853 and MC873 can be used
to manage documents with SENDYS
Explorer LITE, a server based software available to OKI smart MFP customers at no additional cost and offers users the ability to capture documents from various sources and
convert, distribute or upload them
to a chosen location, providing
greater flexibility to edit, access,
print, retrieve and share files.
The new MC800 Series is integrated
circuit (IC) smart card reader ready
for flexible user management, secure
printing and managing print jobs.
Fax is included as standard and OKI’s
three-year warranty is offered at no
extra cost when the product is registered within 30 days of purchase.
“Today’s organisations need intelligent,
reliable devices that offer the flexibility to manage a range of different
tasks” adds Kuri. “The new MC800 Series of smart MFPs enable SMBs to really take control of their document
workflow and support a broad spectrum of business requirements.”
Drytac announces
immediate availability of
Polar HiGrab
Drytac Europe, an international manufacturer of self-adhesive materials
for the print, label and industrial markets, has announced the availability
of Polar HiGrab for medium-term indoor and outdoor graphics applications. Polar HiGrab is a printable 100µ
(4 mil) white monomeric PVC film
coated on one side with a high- tack
pressure sensitive, solvent grey
opaque acrylic adhesive which is protected with a Kraft release paper. Its
exceptional adhesion properties enable it to adhere to a wide variety of
surfaces including indoor and outdoor painted walls, machine equipment and more. The film is printable
by solvent, eco-solvent, Latex and UV
inkjet technologies and has an outdoor durability of 4 years, based on
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Steve Broad, Sales Director for Drytac Europe, comments: “Drytac’s Polar HiGrab ticks lots of boxes when
you’re looking for a printable film
that needs be applied to some of the
most troublesome surfaces such as
painted walls. With its Class 0 Fire
Rating, Polar HiGrab is also ideal for
applications in public areas that require compliance with strict fire regulations such as airports, hotels and
hospitals. “As well as the benefits of
its Class 0 fire rating, the product’s
longevity can be further enhanced
with the fully-compatible Class 0 fire
rating Drytac Interlam and Drytac
Protac over-laminating films.”
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