Quick-Start-Tower

Quick-Start-Tower High Efficiency Low Profile Four-Color Printing Tower

4 colors this side of web 4 colors this side of web

COMPACT Only 10 feet Tall

Unprinted Web

Precise Registration and Color Quick Setup Quick Count

Quick-Start-Tower An Essential Need High costs for paper, manpower, and ink in our highly competitive printing market drive the need for super efficient printing equipment. by greatly reducing the cost per job for these major cost factors, printers once gain achieve that competitive edge that leads to dominance and profitability.

The Quick-Start-Tower is cic’s revolutionary improvement over conventional printing towers. The wastemaking flaws of conventional four-high towers, registration and fan-out, are eliminated by the design invented by cic to keep the web in continuous contact with all blankets, ensuring precise registration with no fan-out.

using QuickSet’s ink presetting overcomes the waste producing and time-consuming operation of adjusting print jobs to the proper ink density. This incredibly efficient and consistent combination of proper registration and proper ink density at start-up improves print quality while ensuring low overhead and maximum productivity.

The low profile and small footprint of the Quick-StartTower make it ideal to achieve profitable short print runs in addition to high duty print runs of 200,000 or more. With a price tag easily reached by small printers, the QuickStart-Tower’s main purpose is to dramatically reduce product cost and cost of operation. it is highly durable and easy to maintain and operate.

Precise Registration with No Fan-Out

Blazing Fast Plate Changes Each Quick-Start-Tower has its own jog forward/reverse motor, thus providing the quickest and easiest plate change of any web offset press. One man can easily change plates in less time than it takes a whole crew to change plates on a conventional 4-high.

Easy Maintenance & Operation

The basic tower design of yesterday’s and today’s 4-highs is from the 1960s. This basic design has always had the flaw that registration needs constant attention and requires various means to control fanout. The Quick-Start-Tower is designed to eliminate these problems inherently through its physical design and configu- The extremely low profile tower allows access to all decks without catwalks while ration. maintaining generous space and easy access.

Generous space and easy access to the Quick-Start-Tower’s modular components make maintenance a breeze. Almost all of the tower is easily serviced by a typical mechanic, not requiring experts to service complicated electronic components.

You will not find expensive after the sale hidden service fees like you do with other presses of equal capabilities.

As soon as the ink hits the paper, the print is in register on the Quick-StartTower. Registration holds throughout the tower and the entire press run due to the mechanical properties inherent in the continuous blanket contact printing process, ensuring that the paper cannot stretch or drift.

Very Affordable

High Productivity Even the most automated presses fall short of the Quick-Start-Tower’s productivity benchmarks.

In summary, the tower provides unparalleled productivity by: Because the print is immediately in regis- 1) immediately being in register ter upon clean-up, there is none of the lost 2) not needing to adjust color time and wasted materials associated with 3) fast changeovers operating register and fan-out controls as is the case with conventional 4-high.

Amazingly Flexible

Superior Ink Pre-Sets

Whether cold set, heat set or UV, the QuickStart-Tower produces quality products for When using the optional ink pre-setting both newspaper and commercial niches on from Quick Set, once the print has cleaned- a wide variety of paper stocks while proup, the Quick-Start-Tower has superior viding unparalleled cost-efficiency. target ink densities compared to conventional 4-high towers equipped with CIP3 CIC’s high-quality jaw type folders are a ink presetting, remote controls and even true stand out for both half fold and quarter fold applications. The double-parallel those with closed loop web scanning. option makes the Quick-Start-Tower also Regardless of whether the inking is con- ideal for book printing. trolled by levers or a remote ink console, the QuickSet ink pre-sets for the Quick- CIC’s web slitters and shifters can be conStart-Tower provide ink settings that rare- veniently positioned between the towers, allowing you the option of getting a web ly need to be adjusted and one-half capacity from each tower.

The Quick-Start-Tower is the first highly functional press package sold at a basic press price. While the Quick-Start-Tower is superior in registration and color compared to other highly automated presses, the price is usually less than half as much.

Highest Efficiency Possible Printing with less waste and less time between jobs, the Quick-Start-Tower achieves the lowest product cost possible while maintaining superior quality.

Quick-Start-Tower High Efficiency Low Profile Four-Color Printing Tower

Specifications/Features • Register Controls • on-the-run side movement adjustments (± .100” on each plate cylinder) • on-the-run circumferential adjustments (± .100” on each plate cylinder) • on-the-run skewing adjustment (± .010” on each plate cylinder) • Robust Brush Dampening with very low maintenance • Motorized Ink and Dampening • Variable speed motorized ink ball roller feed • Variable speed motorized dampener pan roller feed with 25 flow control baffles providing 1.4” wide zonal dampener flow control • Tension is adjustable on dampener baffles – there is no baffle vibrational movement • Motorized spiral brush roller • Individual ink and water shutoffs independent of speed dial settings • Recirculating water system supplied with each tower • Dampener pan roller and brush roller bearings are easily lubricated assuring no dampener bearing failures • Dampener module is very light weight and easily removed/ serviced • Very spacious distance between decks allows extremely easy access for changing plates and blankets as well as servicing and adjustments • Cutoff: 22 ¾ inches (578 mm) • Maximum web width: 36 inches (915 mm) • Narrow gap plate lockup with register pin • Plate and blanket cylinders made from solid stainless steel forgings • Precision hardened and ground helical gearing • Two copper ink oscillating rollers and one oscillating ink form roller • Pneumatic ink form roller on/offs • Oil bath gear lubrication • Web break detector • Motorized cut-off compensation • Tower height, 10 ft. (3.05 m) This was printed on a Quick-Start-Tower using

• Pneumatic unit disengagement clutch • Individual unit inch forward and inch reverse for plate changes • QuickSet ink adjustment levers • Pneumatic impression on/off • Unbreakable steel form roller brackets • Easy micrometric roller adjustment and replacement • Tower weight, 26,000 lbs. (12,000 kg) • Speed rated at 30,000 IPH AVAILABLE OPTIONS – • QuickSet Ink pre-setting • Robust folder with quarter folder rated at 30,000 cph • Double parallel fold rated at 30,000 cph • Balloon former/upper former • Six Broadsheet page web shifters

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