The Horizon SmartSlitter will receive its UK launch at The Print Show, Birmingham NEC, October 11 -13.
The latest addition to the Horizon portfolio of solutions, available through UK and Ireland agent IFS, is an all-in-one smart sheet processing system that can slit, gutter cut, edge trim, cross-cut, perforate, and crease in one pass.
The highly automated system offers a host of innovative features for easy operation and production flexibility including a quick and easy to use colour touch screen. Designed for both offset and digital output, the system comes equipped with print mark registration to accommodate image shift in both directions. Seamless operation also includes job setup via barcode.
It can be enhanced with JDF workflow from upstream to postpress using the Horizon pXnet Bindery Control System.
The Horizon Smartslitter accepts sheets up to 370 x 670mm and can deliver finished sheets down to 50 x 50 mm. Perforation, creasing, and slitting can be performed in both horizontal and vertical directions in the same pass. For accordion fold applications or perfect bound books, up and down creasing can also be performed in one pass while skip perforation is available for producing T-perfs and L-perfs with the SMSL-PR optional perforation cassette.
The Horizon SmartSlitter is ideally suited to the production of coupons with multiple perforations, direct mail pieces, business cards, card decks, and photo books for perfect binding. It can also deliver multiple up greeting cards with or without creasing, table tents, invitations, and much more with both matrix and rotary creasing.
For applications such as accordion folded pieces or perfect bound book covers, up and down creasing can also be performed in one pass. Standard size business cards can be printed 21-up on a sheet and processed to a receding stacker for easy handling.
Optional extras include Rotary Creasing Cassette SMSL-CR for creasing in the direction of paper feeding, Impact Perforation Unit PF-36 for perforation lines in the width direction, an Impact Creasing Unit delivering different widths of creasing lines and a Stacker SMSL-ST delivery device for receiving small products such as business or greeting cards.
Comments IFS Managing Director, Bryan Godwyn: “Like all Horizon products, the SmartSlitter is suitable for both offset and digital printed short-run applications that require ultra-quick turnaround times without compromising quality or integrity. The small-footprinted, easy-to-integrate solution can expand job flexibility and add services that enable print operations to immediately generate revenue. It will help printers stand out from the competition and create higher margins and ultimately more profitable work.”
Also on demonstration from Horizon will be the BQ-470 EVA four-clamp perfect binder, the HT-30c three-side trimmer, the CRF-362 creaser folder, the StitchLiner 5500 bookletmaker with VAC AC 1000 collator and B2 AFC-566FG folder.
The opportunities inhouse lamination can offer will be presented by the Foliant Taurus 530SF and Vega 400.
