Czech Commercial Printer Set to Break 90 Million Printed Sheets Per Year

If there were a benchmark for the most productive print shops worldwide, the Czech company Triangl AG based in Prague would surely be right out in front. From the start of 2015 to spring 2017, the Czech printer of magazines produced more than 172 million printed sheets on its Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106-8 P.
 
This high productivity of 86 million printed sheets per year, however, is currently being further increased. The perfecting press with CutStar roll sheeter and a maximum speed of 18,000 sheets per hour produced close to eight million sheets in March.
 
The other machines also fit into this record-breaking series: The previously employed Speedmaster CD 102 four- and five-color presses stably produced sheet after sheet already; however, the recently installed Speedmaster CX 102-5+L from the latest Push to Stop generation exceeds all expectations with a productivity increase of more than 70%.
 
The next investments are already scheduled: a further Speedmaster CX 102 with Prinect Inpress Control 2 will go into operation soon and another Speedmaster XL 106 eight-color press with perfecting, Prinect Inpress Control 2 and CutStar will be installed once the new production hall is complete.
 
Specializing in the production of magazines, catalogs, and calendars in short and medium run lengths, the print shop Triangl operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The average runs range from 4,000 to 8,000 sheets. With regularly more than 40 jobs per day, no job is on the press for more than an hour.
 
“We needed presses with extremely high speed, extremely short makeready times, and premium quality for different materials and paper formats, in other words maximum productivity, efficiency, and availability,” said owner Petr Kotýnek in describing his high requirements. The company, established by his father Antonin Kotýnek in 1992, has had a varied history, but in recent years has grown into one of the leading premium print shops in the Czech Republic, with a staff of more than 100 and an export share of 13%.
 
Maximum productivity is made possible by digitized and automated processes. The makeready time on the Speedmaster XL 106-8-P is just three minutes, making it almost two and a half times faster than the older presses. On the Speedmaster CX 102-5+L it is just 4.5 minutes, which is thus 35% below the values of its predecessor. The mean production speed, on the other hand, was increased by 20 percent to 14,000 sheets per hour.