The colour inkjet web was first shown at Drupa last year. It has a compact, single-tower design and a print width of 540mm. It can print duplex CMYK at 100m/min at 600x600dpi, or 127m/min at 600x480dpi. Glasgow-based Bell & Bain specialises in book and journal printing, including colour books. The company runs a range of conventional and digital equipment. Managing director Stephen Docherty said he had initially been put off inkjet due to high running costs and questionable quality. “We’d seen and heard so much about inkjet, and spoken to so many people about it, but it was mind-boggling what it cost for service and clicks,” he said. Bell & Bain travelled to Fujifilm’s technology centre in Brussels as part of the assessment process for the purchase. “I couldn’t believe how quick and simple the Jet Press was to operate, and it was actually an easy decision. There’s no click charge and the service costs are reasonable. It makes it straightforward for us to work out our pricing,” Docherty added. The new press has a list price of around £1.2m, depending on configuration. It will replace an existing Océ 9000 black-and-white continuous feed system when it is installed next month, and is being configured to run inline with Bell & Bain’s Muller Martini Sigma binding line. “We’ll be using it for black-and-white work initially, the black tones are absolutely phenomenal so I believe our short-run black-and-white work will instantly migrate to it,” Docherty said. “We can also offer selected customers colour book options, for example market testing with a short run at relatively low cost.” Docherty said the firm was in the process of deciding upon a selection of papers. “We may streamline the choice a little to avoid holding lots of reels.” Chris Broadhurst, UK national sales manager at Fujifilm Graphic Systems, said Fujifilm was extremely proud about the order: “The 540W arrived in Brussels around Christmas time and we started to take customers over to see it in January and February. As soon as Bell & Bain saw the quality they could see it would suit their work,” he said. “It’s great news for the UK print industry that well-established printers, such as Bell & Bain, are still investing to stand their business in good stead for tomorrow and beyond. To get the first sale for Fujifilm globally is quite a coup for us.” he added. The move caps a number of recent investments at Bell & Bain. This year it has added a B2 KBA Rapida 75 to its brace of Rapida 142 large-format litho presses, as well as a new Muller Martini Alegro perfect binder. The 182-year-old firm employs 82 staff and is on track...

The colour inkjet web was first shown at Drupa last year. It has a compact, single-tower design and a print width of 540mm. It can print duplex CMYK at 100m/min at 600x600dpi, or 127m/min at 600x480dpi. Glasgow-based Bell & Bain specialises in book and journal printing, including colour books. The company runs a range of conventional and digital equipment. Managing director Stephen Docherty said he had initially been put off inkjet due to high running costs and questionable quality. “We’d seen and heard so much about inkjet, and spoken to so many people about it, but it was mind-boggling what it cost for service and clicks,” he said. Bell & Bain travelled to Fujifilm’s technology centre in Brussels as part of the assessment process for the purchase. “I couldn’t believe how quick and simple the Jet Press was to operate, and it was actually an easy decision. There’s no click charge and the service costs are reasonable. It makes it straightforward for us to work out our pricing,” Docherty added. The new press has a list price of around £1.2m, depending on configuration. It will replace an existing Océ 9000 black-and-white continuous feed system when it is installed next month, and is being configured to run inline with Bell & Bain’s Muller Martini Sigma binding line. “We’ll be using it for black-and-white work initially, the black tones are absolutely phenomenal so I believe our short-run black-and-white work will instantly migrate to it,” Docherty said. “We can also offer selected customers colour book options, for example market testing with a short run at relatively low cost.” Docherty said the firm was in the process of deciding upon a selection of papers. “We may streamline the choice a little to avoid holding lots of reels.” Chris Broadhurst, UK national sales manager at Fujifilm Graphic Systems, said Fujifilm was extremely proud about the order: “The 540W arrived in Brussels around Christmas time and we started to take customers over to see it in January and February. As soon as Bell & Bain saw the quality they could see it would suit their work,” he said. “It’s great news for the UK print industry that well-established printers, such as Bell & Bain, are still investing to stand their business in good stead for tomorrow and beyond. To get the first sale for Fujifilm globally is quite a coup for us.” he added. The move caps a number of recent investments at Bell & Bain. This year it has added a B2 KBA Rapida 75 to its brace of Rapida 142 large-format litho presses, as well as a new Muller Martini Alegro perfect binder. The 182-year-old firm employs 82 staff and is on track...

Installed last year as part of a £25m investment in the Dundee-based publisher’s Kingsway printing facility, the Colorliner, which was specified in an eight-tower configuration, was signed for in 2011. The equipment was commissioned in November with initial daily runs of 80,000 copies of The Courier and 30,000 of the Evening Telegraph, printed in cold set. In January Goss Ecocool heatset dryers were commisioned on the CPS, which, according to the company, allows it to “print a commercial quality product”. The royal couple, known in Scotland as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, were given a tour of the newly refurbished facility, meeting production staff and starting the new equipment to officially mark its full commissioning. A DC Thomson spokesman said: “We were delighted to welcome The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay to our Kingsway plant. Their Royal Highnesses toured the presses and met with staff members from across our publishing business, in particular production.” To mark the occasion, a special edition of DC Thomson’s The Beano, out on 15 June, will feature the Duke and Duchess with Prince Charles illustrated in a Bash Street Kids strip and the Duchess in a Dennis the Menace and Gnasher strip opening a new school library. Beano editor-in-chief Mike Stirling said: “We are thrilled to welcome The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay onto the pages of The Beano. “We’ve had a blast creating their characters and storylines. It’s not every day you get to write Their Royal Highnesses into The Beano – we hope they like it!”...

The B1 sheetfed UV litho trade printer invested in the colour management software developer’s proofing product, ColorProof, two years ago, and opted to complete the package after undergoing a colour management audit. The latest version of ColorServer, 4.8, was unveiled at last month’s North Print & Pack. “A lot of our jobs are bespoke work for high-quality brands, often involving the use of spot colours, varnishes and printing on specialist substrates such as plastics and metallic and Mirri board materials,” said studio manager Nick Carlin. “GMG ColorProof allowed us to improve proofing quality over what we were using at the time but as jobs have grown in complexity and the range of print substrates has increased, we needed a solution that could simplify and automate our growing colour conversion tasks,” he added. Print equipment at the facility includes a Heidelberg CD102-7, a Heidelberg CX102-7 and a Ricoh Digital C751. Carlin said that the software, which GMG claims boosts efficiency and reduces waste and operator time by automating and standardising colour spaces across devices, has increased the company’s confidence in providing “right-first-time” print results and consistency between machines. Oriel Printing has also invested in GMG’s InkOptimizer, which is designed to conserve ink, resulting in a saving of at least 10% ink consumption, according to Carlin. GMG UK managing director Toby Burnett claimed that his company’s colour management software could save printers “hundreds of thousands of pounds a year” in reduced waste and increased productivity. “More often, printers are finding it harder to achieve accurate visual matches to standardised proofs, especially when a diverse range of substrates are being used,” he added. This results in extended makeready times at the press and increased production costs. Clients that implement our ColorServer technology dramatically reduce these difficulties, and reduce makeready times.”...

Installed last year as part of a £25m investment in the Dundee-based publisher’s Kingsway printing facility, the Colorliner, which was specified in an eight-tower configuration, was signed for in 2011. The equipment was commissioned in November with initial daily runs of 80,000 copies of The Courier and 30,000 of the Evening Telegraph, printed in cold set. In January Goss Ecocool heatset dryers were commisioned on the CPS, which, according to the company, allows it to “print a commercial quality product”. The royal couple, known in Scotland as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, were given a tour of the newly refurbished facility, meeting production staff and starting the new equipment to officially mark its full commissioning. A DC Thomson spokesman said: “We were delighted to welcome The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay to our Kingsway plant. Their Royal Highnesses toured the presses and met with staff members from across our publishing business, in particular production.” To mark the occasion, a special edition of DC Thomson’s The Beano, out on 15 June, will feature the Duke and Duchess with Prince Charles illustrated in a Bash Street Kids strip and the Duchess in a Dennis the Menace and Gnasher strip opening a new school library. Beano editor-in-chief Mike Stirling said: “We are thrilled to welcome The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay onto the pages of The Beano. “We’ve had a blast creating their characters and storylines. It’s not every day you get to write Their Royal Highnesses into The Beano – we hope they like it!”...