Building on its foundation in providing leading-edge, reliable solutions to transactional and direct mail customers, Tecnau will continue its increasing focus on the book and graphic arts marketplaces during the upcoming drupa, says Ross Gilberthorpe, sales & marketing manager for Australian Graphic Servicing (AGS), the exclusive sales and service agents for the Tecnau range in Australia and New Zealand.
"Tecnau’s drupa exhibition mirrors its new product design investments in the book and commercial print marketplaces, as the company shows multiple equipment lines targeted toward customers in these segments," he explains.
Highlighted on the Tecnau stand will be Libra One, providing book block assembly behind the new Canon Ocè ColorStream 6000 Chroma. Libra One is a fully integrated and automated system, allowing variability from one book to the next in height, width, thickness and imposition. With Libra One’s ability to produce ‘books-of-one’, users can slash book stocks to zero, reducing dramatically paper waste and the risk of unsold inventory. The system enables users to reach new markets where short runs are mandatory, such as manuals, limited editions, and new authors publishing.
Tecnau has also announced general availability of the new Libra One CS, a Libra One model supporting sheetfed operations. Libra One CS eliminates the manual guillotine process and automatically transforms single sheets up to 13” x 19” in size into pre-glued book blocks ready for inline or nearline binding. The unit automatically changes from 2-up to 4-up imposition and back with no makeready time, at a constant speed up to 16,000 sheets per hour, even when running book-of-one production.
The Italian manufacturer will show its new Stacker s25 in conjunction with the established Cutter c23. The Stacker s25 features a new gripper technology to provide reliable, damage-free handling of heavy-ink-coverage graphic arts applications. Cutter c23 has dual rotary knives to sheet the web using single cut or variable double strip cut for full bleed colour printing or removal of inkjet flush lines.
Also to be shown on the Cutter c23/Stacker s25 will be Tecnau’s WebVision quality monitoring system. WebVision guarantees print quality and offers significant data integrity and workflow testing capabilities.
Visitors will be able to see an expanded version of Tecnau Connect (formerly known as PrePost Manager), a central platform to control the most complex Tecnau finishing lines, collect data and generate reports, enable remote technical support and perform essential integrity controls.
A further announcement is the new TC 7000 W cutter, supporting web widths up to 560mm. The guillotine cutter supports a wide range of media, from 50gsm up to 250gsm. As with all products in Tecnau’s TC 7000 series, it can be combined with multiple output solutions, including an offset stacker, a shingling conveyor and various third party finishing devices.
Two solutions for long sheet cutting and stacking, the new Stacker s28 and High Pile Stacker h10, will have their debut. The Stacker s28 is based on the well-established Stacker s20 and is designed to collect up to 250mm high offset stacks of sheets, up to 710mm long, with automatic job separation, in order to support the increasing demand for short run commercial print applications such as calendars, posters and banners.
The High Pile Stacker h10 is aimed at higher volume users, as it collects high piles up to 700mm on a pallet for easy transport to further finishing. The Stacker h10 offers continuous delivery (with no pause for stack removal), supporting continuous print operations, and an optional cardboard feeder for job separation.
Finally, Tecnau will introduce NewsReady, an entry level solution for digitally-printed newspaper production. The modular design offers a high degree of flexibility for users, allowing the system to be configured for short run newspaper production and then changed over to 1-up and 2-up offset stack output such as books and commercial print applications. The reconfiguration is quick and simple and can be performed multiple times per day in order to maximse the utilisation of continuous feed digital printers.
Giuliano De Marco, Tecnau CEO, said. “Tecnau is excited to show leading-edge finishing solutions for books and commercial print at drupa 2016. Our drupa exhibition signals our commitment to provide users with solutions that allow them to fully exploit the opportunities presented by today’s high-speed inkjet printing engines.”
AGS, which has installed five Tecnau systems in the past few years, will be at drupa with two teams of two attending the exhibition over the two-week period.