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over 60 year of experience
at your service

over 60 year of experience
at your service

A wide range of comprehensive services covering the whole design, manufacturing and distribution processes of high-quality products that stand out from the current market offerings.

Prepress

Through specialized staff we ensure the highest professionalism in managing prepress work assignments. We perform all necessary checks before entering the printing phase, in order to guarantee high standards of precision and reliability.

We keep investing in new technology and constantly innovating our department, in order to ensure full and continuous compatibility.

Last-generation Mac stations

Kodak PRINERGY CONNECT work flow

Installed and in service since January 2020

BINUSCAN – Repurposing Software

File checks - with PitStop Software

GMG Certified Colour Proof - Epson Stylus Pro

Colour Laser Cyan OKI ES3640Pro

N. 1 Automatic CTP KODAK MAGNUS VLF

Installed in October 2017

MMC IN-LINE automatic punching

Installed in October 2017

N. 1 CTP Creo Scitex VLF Trendsetter 5467

N. 1 Kodak development lines, baking and gumming

Use of Kodak plates – Negative and Positive

CIP3 – Pre InK KBA Offset

Press

KBA printing press are installed in our department and covering the whole range of formats from 70x100 to the maximum format 120x160.

Our prepress department is connected with the printing machines through CIP3 pre-inking technology, which reads the color density directly from files, in order to reduce set-up times, waste, and to improve printing quality from the first copies. We keep using last-generation tools in order to regularly monitor qualitative standards.

KOENIG & BAUER - Rapida 105 – format 70 x 100, 5 colors

KOENIG & BAUER - 120x160 4 colors

KOENIG & BAUER - 120x160 4 colors

KOENIG & BAUER - 120x160 4 colors

Installed and in service since July 2017

KOENIG & BAUER - 120x160 4 colors

Installed and in service since January 2020

Binding

We choose and collaborate only with reliable expert partners, in order to offer our customers binding services with an increasingly wide range of manufacturing technologies, thus covering a 360-degree production, from the moment when we get files to the delivery of the end product. We can meet your packaging needs as follows:

  • folding, collating e stitching;
  • staple and saddle stitching;
  • milled, stitched hardcover, softcover with or without folds;
  • milled, stitched paperback, milled or stitched with folds, perforated deep milled;
  • wire-o with metal and plastic continuous coil binding. 
STAPLE STITCHING
  • folding machine cm. max 112 x 160 4 4 2 with double twin group and Z2 for 32mo,
  • folding machine cm. max 94 x 136 with pocket for 24mo and Z2 for 32mo,
  • folding machine cm. max 94 x 136 6 front pockets, pocket for 24mo and Z2 for 32mo,
  • folding machine cm. max 78 x 136 with 6 front pockets, pocket for 24mo and Z2 for 32mo,
  • folding machine cm. max 55 x 100 with 10 pockets and fold and window tool,
  • folding machine cm. max 35 x 65 with 6 front pockets and 4 cross-fold pockets,
  • automatic guillotine cutting width cm. 155,
  • staple stitcher (14,000 copies/hr) with 2 cover feeders, 6 sheet feeders, double cutting tool, 2/4 saddle stitches and hole for calendars,
  • staple stitcher (14,000 copies/hr) with cover feeder, 2 sheet feeders, double cutting tool, hole for calendars,
  • automatic cellophane wrapping machines,
  • semi-automatic pack-binding machines.

 

HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK OR SOFTCOVER, CUTTING
  • cutting machine cutting width 180,
  • cutting machine cutting width 155.
FOLDS
  • folding machine cm. max 120 x 160,
  • folding machine h max cm. 94,
  • folding machine h max cm. 78.
COLLATING UP TO 24 STITCHING STATIONS
  • stitch collating 15 Meccanotecnica stations with 2 aster 2000 (max format cm. 42 x 31),
  • stitch collating 9 stations with aster 18/0/51 (max format cm. 51 x 31),
  • stitch collating Smyth 6+6 stations (max format cm. 42 x 30),
  • Aster 180 sewing machine,
  • Smyth freccia 180 sewing machine.
PAPERBACK
  • stitched with or without folds,
  • 15 collating stations for milled paperback, splint cut system for double cutting,
  • 9 stations for milled paperback (holmelt and PUR). 
HARDCOVER
  • spine gluer with endpaper feeder,
  • embedding 60 shots (max format 30 x 37).

Finishing

A further service is printing product finishing, which is most frequently used in cover finishing work, thus offering our customers the possibility of completing their products with the following finishes:

Foil stamping

Hot foil embossing

Glitter

Die-cutting

Indexing

Die half-cutting for stickers

Gilding

Cover embossing

Cover padding

Pantone or fluo colours

Rounded edges

Labelling

Special design on paperback and staple stitches

Logistics

We provide a comprehensive service by delivering your products in Italy and abroad through transport companies that are specialized in the business, thus ensuring high professionalism and flexibility, always at competitive market prices.

GET IN TOUCH

Please phone us or browse our staff or contact sections to get in touch with our departments.

+39 02 9055171
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