Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,
Ltd. conducted a three-day open
house event from 4 February to
6 February 2003 at the company's
Paper & Printing Machinery
Division (Mihara City, Hiroshima
Prefecture) to showcase the new
DIAMOND 3000TP Tandem Perfector
Sheet-fed Offset Press. Nearly
120 people representing 57 domestic
and overseas printing houses attended
the event. International visitors
to the event arrived from France,
Italy, Holland, and the U.S.
The Tandem Perfector
represents a revolutionary new
approach to perfecting and was
introduced on the Japanese market
in March 2002 and the international
markets in October 2002. The unique
configuration of the one-pass Tandem
Perfector is another "world's
first" for Mitsubishi.
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| Translink
Unit with triple-diameter sheet
vacuum hold-down cylinder |
This
epoch-making
perfecting
press
features
newly
designed
printing
units
connected
by a
translink
unit
to standard
DIAMOND
Series
printing
units.
Each
sheet
is first
printed
on one
side
and then
transferred
to units
for printing
on the
opposite
side
without
ever
having
to turn
the sheet.
If required,
the translink
unit
can be
fitted
with
UV or
IR dryers.
The DIAMOND 3000TP
also handles a wider stock range
than any other perfector press
now on the market with sheet thickness
ratings from 0.04mm to 0.6mm for
standard models and from 0.2 to
0.8 for carton press specifications.
Nobuo Kiyama, director
and general manager of the MHI
Paper & Printing Machinery
Division, opened the three-day
event with a short welcoming address,
and this was followed by technical
presentations on the press by Shinichi
Fujimoto, director of the sheet-fed
offset press design section. Thereafter,
visitors were provided a tour of
the manufacturing plant and then
visited the sheet-fed press assembly
shop where printing demonstrations
of the DIAMOND 3000TP took place.
Demonstrations of
the Tandem Perfector - a 40-inch
(720 x 1020mm), four-over-four-color
press - focused on the new one-pass
productivity and high quality available
with this press. Two separate jobs
were run on both paper and heavier
stock. Although specifications
of the demo press were standard,
various added-value functions are
available, including in-line coating
and UV ink and dryer specifications.
