The perfecting system of the Roland 900, XXL with a maximum sheet size of 1,310 x 1,870 millimeters revolutionizes sheetfed offset and sets new efficiency standards: this perfecting press prints 64 A4 pages in one pass which is right in line with the manroland Value Added Printing philosophy.
Driven by globalization and consolidation in the industry, large-format is a market with a bright future. Big printing companies are emerging that select the most suitable orders for large-format presses from the vast number of print jobs in the marketplace. This is accompanied by industrial-scale printing including perfecting.
As Dr. Markus Rall, Executive Board Member Sheetfed Printing Systems at manroland, observes: "The Roland 900, XXL is the technological consequence of this development. Format 8 enables the unit cost advantage of a large-format press to be optimally utilized." The Roland 900, XXL perfector unites the advantages of large-format printing with those of perfecting.
"One Pass Productivity" is the magic formula: no second pass, shorter wash-up and makeready processes, lower spoils allowance, simpler organization, the space saved by fewer pallets, and shorter throughput times prior to the postpress operations. This press is primarily aimed at services providers in the fields of commercial and publications printing who are looking to print paper and light carton in perfecting mode for signatures and covers. The classic products of commercial printers are catalogs and brochures in the DIN A4 format. Even though the products of publications printers are often not in DIN formats, the Roland 900, XXL increases productivity enormously – by up to 100 percent compared with a 7B perfector. First user Himmer AG in Augsburg, Germany, is convinced about the production efficiency of this new press. Hannes Eisele, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Himmer AG: "We already call format 8 the Golden Format because it gives us advantages for almost all our jobs."
