Commercial printer Grafiche Mazzucchelli
will be the world's first web company to install the new Sunday 5000
press, which comes with a 2860mm web width, when the pres sis delivered to its
plant in Seriate, Italy in late 2008.
Guglielmo Fiori, owner of the Italian
printing company says, "We look forward
to expanding our collaborative relationship with Goss International and to
pursuing this groundbreaking project that will give us a differentiating
advantage in the marketplace."
Jacques Navarre, senior vice president of
sales for Goss International in Europe, says gapless
blanket technology is vital to achieving the 4×12 pagination format of the
Sunday 5000 press. Tubular Sunday
press blankets eliminate the vibrations associated with blanket gaps, providing
the dynamic stability necessary for the wider cylinder configuration.
"Our original gapless and pinless Sunday
presses revolutionized web printing, allowing higher quality at higher speeds
on wider webs," Navarre explains. "The wider Sunday
5000 press is the latest in a long
line of developments that have continuously extended the competitive advantages
of this proven Sunday press platform."
Pierluigi Guerini, managing director at
Grafiche Mazzucchelli. Says, "We have had excellent success with 48 and 64 page
Sunday presses with pinless folders. The wider 96-page format represents the
next breakthrough, combining added high-pagination productivity with short-run
efficiency."
Close to 2,000 Sunday
press printing units have been installed worldwide since the press was launched, by Heidelberg, in 1993.
