CPI Group has invested in a FormerLine from manroland web systems, which will take over the inline finishing task as part of a production workflow that has been ordered recently.
The system will be installed at its printing site at Clausen & Bosse in Leck, Germany.
The group produces millions of books each day. At the production site in Leck a new digital pressline will fulfil the orders of customers. These demands include fast delivery of small circulations.
CPI in Leck will work with a new digital printing press that will, in the main, produce four colour books. An HP press will print, with the FormerLine and a newly developed RIMA high-speed lift-collator will be available for the finishing.
Guenter Pecher, managing director, said, ‘CPI knows well about the competence of manroland web systems. Our web offset machinery shows numerous presses from the supplier from Augsburg. The paper web runs over single formers. Thus, no single section has to be cut off and handled separately. This, in turn, means that there is no fan out, which increases the product quality.’
According to the company the system offers fast job changes within a highly automated finishing workflow, along with excellent efficiency and optimised paper usage.
The FormerLine can also process catalogues and advertising flyers. The system can run with a web speed of up to 300 m/min. With the variable cut off (145 mm to 457 mm) the maximum web width is 1,067 mm. At CPI, the web will run over three formers. Together with a RIMA stacker, the system will be able to produce up to 8,000 glued book blocks per hour.
