Pressline India’s path-breaking
installations
in book zone
A bit far from the newspaper domain, web offset
manufacturers in India are now aggressively penetrating
into the book printing arena in the country and beyond.
Pressline India marks success in the headway as this
indigenous web offset maker has recently installed its
globally-acclaimed PRIMA press in the printing facility of
S. Chand & Co in Delhi-NCR and in an overseas setup at
Adis Ababa in Ethiopia.
Adoption of the globally acclaimed
Pressline PRIMA web offset press
in their state-of-the-art production
facility has garnered S. Chand & Co (Vikas
Publishing) a new standard in book printing.
This old book publishing company holds
dominant position in producing CBSE
and ICSE school books of 7,500 different
titles penned by more than 1,000 authors.
The publisher has its footprints across the
nation with twenty branches, five marketing
offices and multiple printing and publishing
facilities around.
Now that S.Chand & Co (S.Chand Group—
one of the oldest and largest publishing
and education service enterprises in India)
has acquired
Pressline
PRIMA featured
with cut-off of
578, double
roll stand, 4Hi
towers, halfpage
folder with
quarter-page folder, mini IR dryer, WS log
stacker + 900 turn bar, all perfectly designed
for book printing, this configuration of the
press will enable them to print books in four
colours or take two webs simultaneously to
double the pagination of signature.
Ethiopian connection
Pressline India’s machines run successfully
even in the soil of Africa. For book printing,
Ethiopian Government in Adis Ababa has
recently installed two PRESSLINE 36 presses
having cut-offs of 578 and 546. Both the
presses feature two double roll stands with
auto splicer, two 4Hi towers, half-page folder
with upper former, quarter page folder and
double parallel folder. Government textbooks
from Ethiopia are abundantly printed in India
by some select quality conscious web offset
contract printing houses. As the presses
have been installed in Berhanena Selam
Printing Enterprises (BSPE), an Ethiopian
government undertaking printing facility,
expectation is for a new quality in books
printed at the facility.
Salient features
Pressline India’s presses have some salient
features, discrete from the conventional ones.
Remote ink control system: The prominent
features and permutation/combination of the
Pressline presses
have very advanced
open fountain
remote ink control
system equipped
with CIP 3, thus
benefiting the users
with improved/consistent quality, labour
reduction, lesser makeready time/cost and
reduced wastage.
Fountain blade assemblies: In
the presses, the leak
proof ink fountain
blade assemblies
are segmented for
precise ink flow. Unlike ink fountains that
rely on inexact ‘spring-back’ positioning,
the Pressline presses use a direct-drive
‘push-pull’ system. The drive-shaft features
a captive-screw principle with preloaded
thrust bearings that ensure high mechanical
integrity.
Remote register
control: Remote
register controls
in the Pressline
systems ensure
matching of any
out registered
portion on the
run.
Auto ink pumping system: Further, the
Pressline presses are equipped with auto
ink pumping system, which is
an ink supply system functioning
as closed pump systems for
automatic feeding of printing
inks. The closed system prevents
any contact with the skin—
especially important when UV
inks are used, because these
inks contain substances that may
cause skin irritation.
Auto blanket wash device:
Primary operational mode of
blanket washer in Pressline
presses is the supply of solvent
and water through non-corroding
pipes and nozzles while the
brushes move in vertical and
linear movement gently brushing
the entire blanket surface at a
pre-set pressure to take-off the
deposit, which is carried away
by the running
web, thus thoroughly cleaning the blanket
surface as well as the path rollers.
Both the presses at BSPE are also equipped
with stackers for easy bundling of signatures
expected to run into a little less than half a
million signatures per day. It is hoped that
with this installation of Pressline presses,
a new benchmark will be set to achieve
a new high in print technology at the
Ethiopian book publishing setup.
Here the bottom line is the evidence
of vernacular dailies growing in India
at par with international quality that
correspondingly speaks volumes on the
rising standard in the country. Similar is
the case with book production on web
offset presses with publishers increasingly
getting export orders.
