Lagoprint GmbH
Rielasingen (Germany).
Online Preset, Heidelberg sheetfed.
Printing is on a total of ten printing units in formats 70 x 100 and
50 x 70 cm.
At Lagoprint GmbH, in Rielasingen, Germany, six ink units on a Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102 as well as four on a SM 74 are controlled online via InkZone Card. InkZone Card redirects the data transferred from prepress to the separate printing units for precision setting of the ink zones.
Quicker set-up, better quality
Each day, Lagoprint, a specialist in display, packaging and commercial work, is confronted with difficult forms and increasingly short print runs. So, in order to reduce set-up times to a minimum and achieve production-quality printing quickly, a direct connection for online transfer of the ink zone values was extremely welcome. Both the Heidelberg printing machines are connected via Ethernet (TCP/IP) and InkZone Card to the existing Prinergy Workflow. The versatile DI-Plot proof software converts bitmap data into ink zone values that are then accessed directly from the printing machine and transmitted online to the control console. The control software included in the InkZone package automatically accepts the conversion and linearisation of the bitmap calculated by DI-Plot in the specific Heidelberg machine format.
A milestone in networked production
According to Metin Sentürk, Managing Director of Lagoprint, InkZone Card is nothing short of a milestone on the road to complete process networking. With the open InkZone concept, software developer Digital Information Ltd. has succeeded where the manufacturers of prepress systems and printing machines have thus far failed: namely, the network-based transfer of data between systems of different origins.
«A printing house we know in Switzerland drew our attention to InkZone», says Metin Sentürk. «The online solution promised by Digital Information Ltd. at Drupa 2004 with InkZone Card was exactly what we had in mind to finally replace the so-called sneaker net with modern process networking. A half year later, and both our machines were equipped with InkZone Card.»
The preset data for the ink zones are transmitted online to the control console of the Heidelberg CD 102 and SM 74 via InkZone Card (below right).
