Ancient House Press Plc.
Ipswich, United Kingdom.
Offline Preset, Heidelberg web & sheetfed.
A year ago, Ancient House Plc invested in an eight-colour KBA Rapida with CIP3 interface to the Agfa output workflow. With immediate recognition of the benefits of CIP3, Ancient House was looking for ways to transfer the ink zone presetting values to an existing Speedmaster 102 with eight printing units (adjustable after the fourth unit).
At the same time, the company became aware of InkZone Box from Digital Information Ltd. A comparison of cost versus performance led the customer to view an existing InkZone system at Drukkerij Schuttersmagazijn BV in the Netherlands. where the ink zones on three Heidelberg machines – two SM 102s and an SM 74 – were being preset on a central InkZone Box. Immediately after the visit, Digital Information received an order to supply and install an InkZone Box with InkZone-Perfect. InkZone-Perfect puts Ancient House Press in a position to assign the values calculated for a job to any printing unit regardless of production type (recto/verso or recto only).
There is also web offset production in the Ipswich printing house. Only a few months after commissioning InkZone Box in the sheet-fed area, the old tape drive on the web-fed press was replaced by the Heidelberg Jobcard. By adding the appropriate format to DI-Plot, at no extra cost the customer acquired the option to select ink zones directly from DI-Plot in web offset, too, and write them to the Jobcard directly via InkZone Box.
Ancient House Press Plc. in Ipswich uses InkZone Box for presetting the ink zones on a recto-verso machine (InkZone-Perfect) and a commercial web press.
