Lightweight Paper Performance Package

Problematic quality constraints in the printing of lightweight paper

Printing with lightweight paper on sheetfed offset, presents print companies with consistent productivity and product quality challenges.

For lightweight paper, lower stability means that substrates cannot run reliably through the press if the speed is too high. And while printing must be done at the highest speeds allowable, the possibilities of curling, creasing, wrinkles, dog-eared corners and small tears can pose constant threats to product quality.

For printing companies which process a relatively high proportion of their jobs on lightweight paper, these constraints can be problematic.

Manroland Sheetfed’s ‘Lightweight Paper Performance Package’ solves lightweight paper printing constraints with ease

Among Manroland’s five specialist Performance Packages is its Lightweight Paper Package, which offers an easy solution to the quality constraints in the printing of lightweight paper.

With integration of special antistatic equipment and air supply systems, this package, optimizes sheet separation and sheet feeding, delivery, increasing the printing speed of the press, while also reducing or even avoiding press stoppages altogether.

It provides straight-edged delivery stacks to help increase productivity in the finishing operations. QuickChange Air offers the further benefit of allowing operators to adjust air settings during job change-over.

A series of extensive tests has shown that the Manroland Lightweight Paper Performance Package enables 40-60 g/m2 lightweight paper to be processed at speeds of 15,000 sheets per hour and higher, increasing average production output by 25 percent and more.

This highly popular Lightweight Paper Performance Package, can be installed on ROLAND 700 HiPrint, ROLAND 700 HiPrint HS and ROLAND 700 DirectDrive. If the constraints of printing are a concern, the Lightweight Performance Package provided by Manroland Sheetfed is the printer’s ideal choice.

About Manroland Sheetfed

Manroland Sheetfed is a leading global producer of offset printing presses for commercial, packaging, publishing applications and related technologies. The company has its own subsidiaries in over 40 countries covering Europe, Asia, North America, South America and Australia.

Founded in 1871 on the finest traditions of German engineering excellence, the name Manroland is now a global watchword for quality, precision and supreme reliability in end-to-end offset printing solutions. Manroland Sheetfed is a wholly owned subsidiary of Langley Holdings plc, a privately owned UK engineering group whose capital equipment form the core of many industrial and commercial processes around the world.