Addison Print has installed three new devices, a Valiani Mat Pro Ultra V, a Morgana System 2000 and a Vivid laminating device, after a recent Morgana System’s open house event.
Adam Matthews, director, said, ‘We couldn’t help notice the Valiani as it was taking centre stage and drawing quite a crowd. We saw what it could do and realised that it was exactly what we needed for one specific area of work that we were producing on a regular basis.
‘We have customer that is a major producer of light bulbs for the country. They use us to help them to produce a large variety test packaging. That can involve a lot of awkward cutting tasks and expensive cutting forms. The Valiani is the ideal solution to the problem, as these marketing runs are just a few dozen copies. Of course, once we had seen what the machine could do we began thinking of a awful lot of other areas of work where the machine could be very useful.’
The Vivid 530 lamination equipment provides for matt, soft touch and gloss lamination for both litho and digital production.
Ian Harper, director added, ‘Our ageing booklet making equipment was in need of replacement, but these products have come a long way in recent years: this latest machine is able to handle both un-collated and pre-collated work, as well as create a square back finish to the final booklet – a set of features that really came into their own only a few days after installation.
‘We needed to produce a staff handbook for a large toy store. The longer part of the run was printed litho and so we needed to collate the double page spreads into a book, add the cover, and then stitch and trim, but we were also able to finish the product with a square back thanks to this Morgana binder. Then we had a shorter run of the publication to produce for Ireland. This suited digital printing and therefore ran through the same binder as pre-collated sets with a cover added. The booklet was also finished with the square back option. The job was an ideal example of what this machine could do for us, and it only took an afternoon to do the whole job: without this product we would have had to put the job out for trade binding as our previous binder could not have handled it. I don’t like to think how many days that would have added to the production schedule!’
The Morgana System 2000 collator and bookletmaker is equipped with Morgana’s SquareFold unit, and is capable of producing up to 3,000 books per hour.
The Valiani has been put to good use in a variety of directions since its arrival in July. The company has been producing jig-saw products for a pre-school customer, and has been asked to produce test packaging for Brownie snack boxes for a major football club.
It can be used to produce a blind embossing effect on board products, with a range of tools to create different embossing designs and can cut through a variety of thicknesses.
