FCP Fargo recently installed a new Komori MBO K8RS fully automated pallet-fed combi folder with automated arm for stacking the folded pieces onto a pallet at the end of the machine.  The pallet-style feeder on the K8RS significantly reduces touch points, which helps keep the operator focused on the quality of the product running through it. This folder is FAST and is capable of production speeds up to 16,600 sheets per hour, allowing the folder to keep up with the output of FCP's new G40P advance perfecting press.

For the last couple of months Forum Communications Printing's Fargo plant has been replacing their Komori Lithrone S50 5-color, 40 inch sheetfed press with a brand new Komori Lithrone G40P advance Perfector 40 inch sheetfed press with 8 color units. This new press is a serious beast of a commercial printing press that prints on both sides of a sheet in one pass at a rate up to 15,000 sheets per hour, and its advanced automation system dramatically reduces makeready times. 

Learn more and see the entire install of our new Komori G40P Perfector

The term "heatset" is a little misleading when you're talking about the heatset printing process. Yes, there is an oven that more-or-less bakes the paper as it spins through the web press, but what is the heat really doing?

The function of the ovens on a heatset web press does not dry the ink as oil-based paints need to boil or evaporate to dry, which would be over the burning point of the paper it has been applied to and start a fire.  The ovens actually evaporate the solvents in the ink before the paper is fed into a chilling unit which sets or hardens the ink.

During the month of January, the dedicated mail team professionals at FCP folded and mailed over 4.3 MILLION tax forms, not just throughout the United States, but all across the globe.

Is your business looking for help with their next mail piece?  Contact the mail professionals at Forum Communications Printing to see how we can help. We have experience mailing simple post cards and letters to monthly publications, daily/weekly newspapers and more.

Forum Printing helps publishers with their book printing needs. We primarily utilize our offset and digital sheeted printing capabilities to produce high-quality perfect bound and saddle stitch books that fit our customers' budgets.

​At FCP, our professional shipping and mail teams are experienced in finding the best options to get your finished books to where they need to be.

Are you looking for a printer to help produce your book(s)? Contact Forum Communications Printing today!

This will be the last weekend running our Komori S40 five-color sheetfed press. Come Monday, our old, reliable press will start getting dismantled so we can make room and pour a foundation for our new eight-color advance Perfector.
It will be sad to see it go, but we are getting pretty giddy thinking about the advancements that come with the press.  We will be posting updates of the install over the next couple of months.

Did you know: In the late 1800s, a sheetfed press could print at a blazing speed of up to 700 sheets per hour.  That's pretty fast, right?!? 

Now fast-forward 140+ years and these incredible offset printing machines can spit out up to 21,000 sheets per hour. This is truly a record-breaking speed, but most full color sheetfed presses will operate in the low to mid-teen range for quality purposes.

Forum Communications Printing currently has two Komori sheetfed offset presses and five digital sheetfed presses at their Fargo location.

Did you know that the first fully operational web press was built in 1865 by inventor William Bullock of Pennsylvania? This was the first roll fed printing machine that was capable of printing on both sides of the paper.

Forum Communications Printing uses both coldset web and heatset web presses to produce quality printed products that fit your budget. Contact us today for help with your printing needs.