Increased demand for landscape A4 property brochures prompted Healeys Printers to invest in a Horizon SPF-FC/200L landscape feed bookletmaker, supplied by IFS.
The Ipswich B2 litho and digital printer that works with creative agencies, property and fine art markets also added a Foliant Taurus to meet a growing need for same day lamination.
The latest investment has been made on the back positive growth says Healeys Managing Director, Philip Dodd: “We have seen business grow 10% year on year. It has been incredible. We have just had the best month for digital with it accounting for 35% of sales. It is usually around 27%.
This follows enhancements to its digital printing: “We have just added the longsheet feeder on the Kodak NexPress, which a great way of handling the A4 landscape work, and needed something to finish it. We started looking at bookletmakers last Autumn and chose the Horizon because it is cost effective, efficient and delivers a high quality A4 landscape result. We already have a Horizon StitchLiner 5500 but the new addition allows us to be more creative with the mix of work we are running.
“For example if we need to quickly complete a 12-page A4 250–300 run we can do it faster and make money on it.”
Capable of 4,500bph, the Horizon SPF/FC-200L combines all the highly automated features of the successful SPF/FC200A bookletmaker with the ability to feed A4 landscape sheets up to 640mm in length. JDF-ready, the system offers instant set-ups via a large icon-based colour touchscreen for user-friendly operation. The screen can be used for on-the-run fine tune adjustments as well as the store and recall of up to 200 jobs.
As for the Foliant Taurus 530SF Dodd says: “We invested in a hand fed laminator five months ago. Since then the next day lamination demand has had a massive response. We expect that side of business to grow even more in September to at least 50 individual orders. For that we needed a highly automated solution.”
The small footprint 30m/min B2+ Foliant Taurus 530SF features a rising pile back separation stream feeder and a suction paper feed head. The compact design incorporates feeder, laminator, and a sheet separator in a single construction.
He adds: “We liked the Foliant for a number of reasons. Ease of set up was essential and it is very flexible. It is also a highly effective process and very quick.”
