Printing Innovation Asia Issue 8 2020
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Big role for Printnet's Impremia IS29 Founded in 1987, Printnet Co., Ltd. has achieved rapid growth in the printing business through intensive use of the Internet. In 2019, the company invested 2.45 billion yen to relocate and rebuild its plant, establish new bases, and expand its lineup of printing presses, including the installation of the Impremia IS29 29-inch Sheetfed UV Inkjet Digital Printing System. At Printnet most of the orders are from customers in the specialty printing field. President Youichi Odawara says, "I believe that jobs of 3,000 or more copies should be run on a UV web offset press, jobs of more than 1,000 copies are best handled by sheetfed offset machines, and those of fewer than 100 copies should be produced on a POD system. We are expecting the Impremia IS29, our first B2 digital machine, to handle the range between POD and sheetfed offset, or from 100 to 1,000 copies."
Key advantage: one-pass duplex printing Mr. Odawara explains: "With an offset press, plates must be output,
and eight plates need to be mounted for double-sided printing, requiring time for makeready and resulting in considerable paper waste. In contrast,
Mr. Odawara
