Flexible Finishing Solutions from Therm-O-Type Finishing equipment requirements The Therm-O-Type RAS-mc is the fi rst right angle slitter that combines high speed productivity with product size fl exibility. Foil patched and shape cut envelope produced on a W+D 410 Easy Enveloper is incorporating quick change rotary tooling cassettes in the design. Using cassettes, customers can change the product size/format on the RAS-mc in less than three minutes, without tools. The RAS-mc can also be equipped with computer controlled, auto-adjust cassettes. Using auto-adjust cassettes, product size changeover can be completed in as little as eight seconds. The RAS-mc is one example of how equipment technologies are evolving to provide printers with more capable, effi cient, and fl exible fi nishing solutions. ENVELOPE CONVERTING + INSERTING + INKJET PRINTING + WRAPPING Exclusive North American sales/service for Buhrs wrapping systems NEW! EASY ENVELOPER CONVERTING MACHINE Make in-house direct mail envelopes at up to 30,000 env./hr. Reduce your time to market by 40% and printed waste by 10% or more all with this new revolutionary easy to use envelope machine. Convert your rectangular press sheets without secondary die cutting and do envelope size change in approximately 15 minutes. Make the highest quality, uniquely finished direct mail and transpromo envelopes in-house and set yourself apart with greater profitability. NEW! ON DEMAND INTELLIGENT INSERTER Modular with 4-color 1:1 printing of outer envelope and on demand inside content printing means the new BB700 S2 ups the ante in intelligent direct mail/transpromo inserting. INKJET ENVELOPE PRINTING The world’s fastest and most robust 4-color variable data envelope inkjet overprint press with speeds of 30,000 env./hr. has the lowest ink cost in its class. SEE US IN BOOTH 1271 AT GRAPH EXPO ® THE TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEM SOLUTION PARTNER W+D North America, Inc. 11300 West 80th St. Lenexa, KS 66214 USA t. 913-227-3000 info@wdnorthamerica.com wdnorthamerica.com have always focused on the quantity of a product being produced. Finishing a specifi c product, in large enough quantities, printers can afford to purchase equipment that is engineered to produce the product with maximum effi ciency. In certain cases, this type of equipment is essential for the work to be produced profi tably. Even if specialized equipment requires signifi cant set up time, the labor costs can be offset by the volume of work being produced with each set up. Products produced in smaller quantities require different fi nishing equipment solutions. While maximum throughput speed is less critical, inherent fl exibility and short set up time between product formats is essential. In both cases, automation has become extremely important. Computer controlled automation frequently includes automating various machines settings, monitoring paper movement through the machine (jam detect/interrupt), monitoring lubrication/ compressed air supply/voltage, and delivery (batching), etc. When running repeat orders, the ability to retrieve and load stored set up information is also critical. Automation must not just be functional, it must also be well organized, easy to use, and intuitive for the operators. There is a trend to develop fi nishing equipment that combines suffi cient automation, throughput speed, and fl exibility to allow small and large quantity orders to be produced effi ciently. One example of this trend is right angle slitters. Right angle slitters offer several important advantages as an alternative to guillotine cutting. Right angle slitters: • provide high levels of productivity, regardless of the number of cut lines on each sheet, • eliminate edge chipping issues, • eliminates lead, tail, side and gutter waste automatically, and • when running a large volume of multiple up, small quantity orders, orders exit as sets into the delivery. While these advantages are important, traditional right angle slitters have always had one fatal fl aw, and that has been a total lack of product size fl exibility. Using a traditional right angle slitter, when switching between product sizes and/or formats, blade shafts and blade/ hub assemblies must be removed, then reinstalled and positioned in a labor intensive and time consuming process. Recently, a new type of right angle slitter was developed to address this fl aw. The Therm-O-Type (Booth 2535) RAS-mc combines high speed productivity with product size fl exibility. The key to providing product size fl exibility Offi cial Show Daily | PrintingNews.com GRAPH EXPO 16 | September 27, 2016 | 21
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