Goss has launched an upgrade for the M-600 press, designed to support its colour control and eliminate potential obsolescence issues.
The company says benefits of the upgrade, from the Omnicolor II press controls, include start-up waste lowered by anything from 20 up to 50 percent as well as significant reductions in turnaround time.
To help customers evaluate the potential gains from an Omnicolor II upgrade, Goss has introduced a return on investment calculator to provide individualized expected savings. Rutger Jansen, head of customer service for Goss International Europe, says, “Customers can see the potential pay-off, whatever their current production model may be. Together, we plot in their average number of jobs and current makeready figures against the investment cost and the new figures they can reliably expect.”
Goss has introduced a return on investment calculator to provide individualised expected savings
The company says the features of the Omnicolor II upgrade will help achieve a more automated process to support the press operator adding that the ability to automate press setting direct from CIP3 data works to reduce a three-stage process down to a single step, resulting in less waiting time and eliminating error potential.
The Omnicolor II developments share the latest-generation hardware components of the Goss Omnicon controls system. Goss says this means that Omnicolor II benefits from the latest measures in preventative obsolescence, hard disk reliability, and wide-ranging connectivity, such as via VPN. M-600 operators can now use a large touchscreen display and HMI software, as well as systems architecture and connectivity.
Goss says that, following a one-day press audit, Goss engineers require full press access for between two and four days to install the upgrade on existing M-600 systems. The company lists the system improvements as:
Accurate pre-setting of the ink keys via the pre-press interface (CIP3 file)
Quicker reaction of the ink keys and repetitive positioning;
Ability to move all ink keys simultaneously;
Ink and paper selection – up to 10 papers and inks, to optimize the presetting;
New functionality such as Ink Tracking and Color Boost; enabling the fastest possible process to achieve good copies;
Auto learning – by saving all running job settings, the Omnicolor will fine tune the pre-setting by taking into account ink, paper and coverage specifications.
