"We had put together tricky jobs with three different brown shades," explains Nicola Bernini, who owns IVAL. "The Speedmaster XL 145 printed these applications at a speed of 15,000 sheets per hour and produced consistent and stable high-quality results. In other words, it did exactly what industrial packaging printing requires."
The press is elevated, equipped with a logistics system, and incorporates countless automation components designed to deliver the shortest possible makeready times. These components include the inline spectrophotometric measurement system Prinect InpressControl, which regulates color and register on the fly, thus ensuring that production can continue to run efficiently despite frequent job changes. This also significantly reduces paper waste, which translates into a major cost saving, particularly in the premium packaging sector, and supports the print shop's environmental commitments.
"To help us gain an extra edge on the competition and offer our customers products that are finished to an elegant standard, we opted for UV specifications," says Paolo Giacomobono, head of production at IVAL. "The Speedmaster XL 145 currently produces the best gloss results that we can get in inline primer/UV production."
Top results are obtained by maximizing the distance that the UV coating on the primer travels before it is cured by the UV dryers - and the Speedmaster XL 145 has the longest dryer section of any large-format offset printing press on the market. These high gloss results are also achieved at high production speeds.
IVAL was established in 1954 and currently has a workforce of 120 employees who handle print jobs for prestigious Italian food manufacturers.