Delaware State In-plant Adds CTP, New Press

By Bob Neubauer

To eliminate this lag time once and for all, the in-plant recently installed a Heidelberg Quicksetter 300E computer-to-plate device.

“Our designer can send the file direct to the Quicksetter and we can have a plate out in, say, a half hour,” reports Yerkes—quite a difference!

Those polyester plates are then loaded onto one of the shop’s two new Heidelberg Printmaster 46 presses. The two-color, 12x18˝ presses, which replaced a pair of older Toko presses, came with auto plate feeding and plate ejection, automated blanket wash-up and IR dryers. With speeds in excess of 8,000 sheets per hour, the presses are churning out letterhead, brochures, newsletters and forms at a much faster clip than the old Tokos.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.