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Forum Communications Printing - Equipment List

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PREPRESS HARDWARE LIST
CTP
  • Screen PTR-8600 Thermal CTP with auto plate load and in-line punching
  • Two Kodak Trendsetter News 70 Thermal CTP devices with in-line plate bending & punching

Proofers
  • Laser printers
  • Two Epson 9600 proofers w/Oris RIP
  • Two Epson 9800 proofers w/Oris RIP
  • Hyphen ImpoProof

Scanners
  • Fuji C-550 flatbed scanner
  • Umax PowerLook 2100XL flatbed scanner
  • Linotype Hell S3300 drum scanner
  • HP Scanjet flatbed scanner with auto document feeder

Servers/Storage
  • Gigabit Ethernet Network
  • Dell Poweredge 2650 servers w/ 2 TB storage

Removable Drives
  • CD
  • DVD

PREPRESS SOFTWARE LIST
Mac Software
  • Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  • Quark XPress 8
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Adobe Illustrator CS5
  • Adobe Acrobat Professional 9.0
  • Adobe In-Design CS5
  • Freehand MX
  • Stuffit Deluxe
  • Bar Code Pro
  • Flightcheck
  • Microsoft Office
  • Kodak Preps

Windows Software
  • Quark XPress 8
  • Adobe Illustrator CS4
  • Adobe Photoshop CS4
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.0
  • Adobe InDesign CS4
  • Microsoft Office

Workflow
  • Rampage RIP-once workflow with automatic trapping
  • Rampage Remote proofing

INTERNET
Internet Access
  • Via wireless connection to ISP    
 
Web site and FTP site hosted internally  

MAIL EQUIPMENT

Addressing
SR-50 Video Inkjet
  • Excellent print quality with graphic capabilities.

IJ-4000 Video Inkjet
  • Independent heads allow for address, lower right barcode,return address and indicia all on one pass.

Cheshire 596 Base 539 Head
  • Applies 4-up computer generated address labels.

Two Kirk-Rudy Base with HP Heads
  • Off-line inkjet

INSERTING
Bell & Howell BH-1000
  • 6-station selective feed system with Optical Mark Recognition for multisheet collating at speeds up to 11,000 per hour.

Bell & Howell Mailstar 400
  • PF 300 Smart Feeder System.
  • 6-pocket, OMR reading system for multiple statementprocessing.

TABBING
Kirk-Rudy KR527 Tabber
  • Applies one or two tabs on open face of mail-piece inline with addressing equipment.

Profold Tabber Deluxe
  • Applies up to 8 tabs on a mail-piece. Works inline with all addressing equipment.

METERING
6-Hasler Meters
  • Metering of mixed weight. Machine weighs and applies appropriate postage to mail-pieces.




PRESS EQUIPMENT LIST
Sheetfed
  • 40" Komori 6-color w/Inline Aqueous
  • 40" Man-Roland 6-color with CCI
  • 41" Miller 2-color perfector
  • 28" Komori 5-color

Web
  • 36" 3840 Beiren heatset web – 8 units
  • 36" Harris V-15 coldset – 4 units
  • 36" DGM 435 coldset – 8 units
  • (2 - 4-unit towers)
  • 35" Goss Community coldset – 19 units (3- 4-unit towers + 2- 2-unit towers +3 single units), 2 folders
  • 35" Goss Community coldset – 9 units (1-4-unit tower + 5 single units), 1 folder
  • Gammerler in-line rotary trimmer

Digital
  • Xerox iGen3 110 Digital Color Production Press
  • Xerox Docutech 6180

BINDERY EQUIPMENT LIST
Cutters

  • Two fully automatic Saber cutters with jogger and unloader

Folders
  • Baum 500B
  • Baum 500DC
  • MBO B30A-C folder
  • MBO B123-C folder with HHS Fugitive Glue
  • Stahl f-66 folder

Collators
  • Muller 227 Insert-13 pockets w/ inline ink-jet addressing

Inserters
  • Two Kansa 8-pocket inserters
  • Kansa 4-pocket inserter with tip-in gluer

Perfect Binder
  • Wohlenberg Perfect Binder with in-line trimmer

Poly-bagger
  • Arpact poly-bagger

Shrink Wrap
  • Weldotron 7302
  • Eastey

Stitchers
  • Jetstream 225, 8 pockets plus cover feeder
  • Muller-Prima, 6 pocket plus cover feeder with 4th and 5th knives
  • Muller-Prima, 5 pockets plus cover feeder and Prism inline inkjet with 4th and 5th knives

Miscellaneous
  • STS Hot Melt Gluer
  • Rollem for scoring, perforating, numbering
  • Steamfeeder card counter
  • Felins Ultra Sonic bander
  • Challenge three-hole drill
  • Challenge single-hole drill

UV Coater
  • 40" Sakurai Cylinder SC112A flood and spot

LIST MANAGEMENT
BCC Software
  • Pave Certified Software
  • Cass Certified Software
  • Palletization and Drop Shipping
  • Mailing Lists

Complete computerized list management
Residential Databases
  • Fargo, West Fargo, Moorhead, Dilworth and all major cities in North Dakota.

BARCODING & SORTING
Bell and Howell Criterion IV
MLOCR Sorter-96 bin
  • With Sabre Plus.

OTHER EQUIPMENT
Skanklin Polywrap-Shrink Film System
  • Polywrap literature or product with capabilities to poly multiple pieces.

Whittier
  • Bag/tray tagger with thermal printer.

Dynaric and Cyklop Strapping Systems

Pitney Bowes FD40 Digital Top Folders with Stackers

Eastey
  • Shrinkwrapper.


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