Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Anicolor
Heidelberg will be touting their new Anicolor press technology at Graph Expo.
With Anicolor, ink is stored in the ink chamber rather than on the surface of the rollers, where it is stored in a conventional inking unit. This means that the operator does not need to adjust any ink keys during makeready or printing. This benefit cuts makeready times by up to 40 percent, and increases press capacity by 25 percent or more. Due to the Anicolor inking unit, the color consistency on any printed sheet - from sheet to sheet and from job to job - is excellent.
Another advantage of Heidelberg's Anicolor inking unit is that the ink form roller and the screen roller are full-format size, resulting in no ghosting of those rollers. The Anicolor inking unit's efficient temperature control system allows an effective control of the amount of ink transferred to the sheet. Additional innovations in the Anicolor inking unit's chambered blade system further maximize print quality.
Erik Nikkanen, press manufacturer gadfly asks the Editor at WTT:
The operation of this press looks simple but it isn't. Anilox rollers and water have not been very compatible in the past, where it has been tried on newspaper presses. At Ipex it was announced that the Anicolor press would be available at the beginning of 2007. Now at Graphic Expo's introduction of the concept, the due date has slipped to the Fall of 2007.
Slipping delivery dates is not a positive sign. It will be interesting to find out when it really will be available if at all.
It will be interesting to see what the message at Graph Expo is.
Posted in: Graph Expo 2006
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