Myprint Partners founders Ian McCloskey (L) and Richard Green with the Horizon CRF-362
Sheffield commercial printer Myprint Partners more than halved its production time by installing a Horizon CRF 362 creaser folder supplied by IFS.
The company, which specialises in short-to-medium run fast turnaround general commercial work, wanted to replace its separate folder and creasers with something that was faster and easier to set up.
The Horizon CRF-362 creases and folds in one pass a wide range of light and heavyweight stocks, coated or uncoated. Capable of up to 10 crease lines on a sheet, it uses an impact scoring technology that eliminates or minimises cracking of the stock or printed image. Set-up and changeovers – including fold pattern, creasing number, and up/down crease selection – are completed on the colour touch screen.
‘Most of the digital jobs we have use heavy weight materials which means everything needs a crease,’ explained director Richard Green. The Horizon CRF 262 creaser folder ‘has streamlined the process’ he reports. ‘Using the creaser folder takes out a process and that drastically reduces the amount of time each job takes. It more than halves the time. Jobs that took two hours now take 45 mins,’ he concluded.
