Print Solutions
Print shops are facing the challenge of having to process a growing number of short runs both efficiently and profitably in their production departments. That means keeping manual interventions to an absolute minimum. Integrating industrial inkjet printing into a digital ecosystem is therefore extremely important for the commercial market and the growth strategy of Heidelberg.
The market launch of the Jetfire 50 B3 sheetfed inkjet system unveiled at drupa 2024, which benefits from a link to Prinect technology, is going according to plan. Customers in Switzerland are soon to be the first to have the systems installed.
At the upcoming Hunkeler Innovationdays, from February 24 to 27 in the Swiss city of Lucerne, Heidelberg will be showcasing its digital ecosystem for end to end production based on the new Jetfire 50. The company can be found in hall 1 at stand P2, which it is sharing with Müller Martini AG. This is the first exhibition at which the system is being presented in the Heidelberg design. In a world premiere, the company will also be unveiling the Fireline near line post press solution with the Stahlfolder TH 56/66 models for automated end to end production in digital printing.
The Stahlfolder TH 56/66 Fireline for near line post press operations in digital printing enables highly automated processing of digitally printed sheets in a single operation, all the way through to the finished cut and folded print product. Cutting, creasing, and folding all take place in just one pass. ‘In the industrial printing context, efficient and highly automated post press operations are vital if production departments are to process a large number of highly diverse orders efficiently and ensure the profitability of digital print production. That makes our new Fireline post press solution a key addition to the Heidelberg digital ecosystem, taking us a big step closer to end to end print production,’ emphasised Dr David Schmedding, chief technology and sales officer at Heidelberg.
While the Stahlfolder TH 56 Fireline has been developed as a post press solution for the Jetfire 50, the Stahlfolder TH 66 Fireline in combination with the Jetfire 75 is intended for the B2 format. Heidelberg is planning to unveil the Jetfire 75 in the course of 2025.
The Stahlfolder TH 56/66 Fireline is fully integrated into the Prinect workflow. As a result, the system can be preset automatically based on the job parameters from Prinect and with virtually no operator intervention. The standard programs stored in the system cover a wide range of different end products. The possibilities with the Jetfire 50 include A3 and A4 posters trimmed on all four sides for full bleed motifs, four page pamphlets (A4 portrait plus A5 portrait and landscape), and eight page A6 products with concertina, parallel, or letter fold. To minimise the number of system changeovers, Prinect groups similar orders into batches, and these jobs are then completed one after the other on the Jetfire 50 and the Stahlfolder TH 56/66 Fireline.
Thanks to the high degree of automation, even less qualified staff can achieve professional results and a high level of productivity. In addition to the standard programs stored in the system, customized programs can also be configured manually and saved.
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