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 The next big thing is here, and it's already making an impact. The impressive Heidelberg® Speedmaster™ CD 74 is the latest addition to Park's pressroom. Designed for industrial-oriented commercial and packaging printers, the Heidelberg® Speedmaster™ CD 74 prints on a broad range of substrates from flimsy paper to stiff board and plastic sheet. The most exciting news? In-line UV coatings and inks. It can run conventional inks, or it can be switched over to UV CoCure inks. We can now do flood aqueous or UV coating as well as spot aqueous or UV with special blankets. UV coating creates a high-gloss finish and brings out even more color in your printed pieces. UV CoCure inks are shinier, brighter, and produce more vibrant color than traditional inks. They are also more colorfast. UV CoCure inks and coatings are cured which means they're dry almost immediately after coming off the press. UV CoCure inks on uncoated stocks enhance detail, hold-out, and color saturation, allowing the use of less expensive stocks while still producing vibrant-looking print quality. The ink sits on top of the sheet as opposed to soaking in to the sheet, so the color that comes off the press will be the color you'll see when your job ships. Applications range from high-end commercial pieces on coated stocks to plastics such as static-cling, Mylar, blister packaging materials, to metallic foils and metalized papers for packaging, labels, and commercial products. A significant feature that sets the Speedmaster CD 74 apart is double-diameter impression cylinders. This allows us to print on sheets up to 31 point - the thickness of a credit card! Our other presses can print on stock up to 18 point. The thicker the sheet, the less it can curl. But its larger impression cylinders don't require the sheet to curl as much as smaller ones. Therefore, larger cylinders can accommodate these thicker sheets. Basically, if it can be fed through a sheetfed press, it can be printed on the Speedmaster CD 74. Larger impression cylinders also mean less streaking and ghosting. Consistent coverage on solid areas is much easier to achieve. The maximum sheet size is 23.5" x 29.125", our largest size ever. This enables us to get six 8.5" x 11" pages up on one form (we used to get four), or two 25" x 11" pages (vs. one previously). That translates into shorter print runs, saving time and money. We invite you to stop in and see our new arrival. We'd love to show it off. Send an email request for samples |