Solopress has added a Horizon digital sheet feeder to cope with volume of booklet work produced on its HP PageWide T250 inkjet press.
The promise of the inkjet press was always about faster turnaround on litho quality work with finishing located alongside the press as well as further round the Southend industrial estate in a separate building for finishing.
The reels from the HP press, printed using the Brilliant Inks for printing on coated as well as uncoated papers, are feed to a Hunkeler line for sheeting and stacking. These can now be feed via the HOF400 feeder into the booklet making line.
Head of operations Jack Clifford says: “We wanted something that would help us stitch the short runs from the new HP PageWide T250. We easily manage the long runs with our existing machinery. For short runs we were spending more time setting up the stitcher than running it. The HOF400 allows us to manage these shorter runs more efficiently by loading collated sets with many different titles.
“It also gives us the flexibility to either complete jobs using the HOF or the hoppers. If there is a run with a high page count it makes more production sense to use the hoppers. If it is a small pagination then it is best to run it through the HOF400.
The online trade printer has extensive experience of Horizon and supplier IFS with a range of equipment at its main finishing operation. This now includes a second of the HOF400 feeders to cope with an expansion in shorter run work there, either from its HP Indigo, Xerox of litho presses.
There will be a big uptick in productivity across the board with Clifford estimating it will deliver a 20-30% increase in output from the webfed press.
