US print provider Suttle-Straus has invested in a Revolution 50 Roll-to-Roll system with a range of ancillary perforating and cutting/stacking kit from Tecnau, to help it produce a specific transactional mail product.
The company was using an aged sheet-fed monochrome toner devices to produce, however, this process was described as costly by Brett Keene, chief operating officer at Suttle-Straus. So, the company modernised it with Tecnau technology, with the Revolution 50 being augmented by a TC 1550 HS1 Dynamic Perforator, along with offline Stack 2320 and Stack 5251L cut/stack systems.
Suttle-Straus has invested in a Revolution 50 Roll-to-Roll system with a range of ancillary perforating and cutting/stacking kit from Tecnau
The Tecnau Revolution 50 Roll-to-Roll unwinds and rewinds rolls across different applications. It features adjustable controls to accommodate a range of tensions required for papers to be run by high-speed colour inkjet presses. It is centre-shaft driven, rewinding rolls at speeds up to 250m/min, making it ideal for commercial print applications, said Tecnau.
The TC 1550 HS1 Dynamic Perforator processes each page within a job individually in response to a 2D Datamatrix code on the page. Suttle-Straus utilises this for transactional and direct mail products. For transactional mail, the company uses it to add dynamic perforations to the remittance sections of statement sets, and for direct mail applications, it leverages its perforator for various tear-off features, explained Tecnau.
The older-generation Tecnau Stack 2320 provides Suttle-Straus with cost-effective feeding of sheets to the folder, for creation of buckle-folded output, said Tecnau. The latest-generation Revolution 50 Stack 5251L system operates inline with or offline from web-fed digital inkjet printers at speeds up to 160m/min depending on the user environment. Suttle-Straus has chosen to operate cut/stacks offline from the press.
Mr Keene said that the technology has not only ‘vastly’ improved cycle time by 30-40% for projects but has also allowed the company to open up capacity on other equipment, helping revenue growth. He concluded that the investment has also resulted in lead times being reduced by 30-50%.
