Stroma turns to Heidelberg for latest investment

Print Solutions

Stroma has turned to Heidelberg for its latest press investment. It has installed a Linoprint CP and it is delighted with the uptime of the press as much as with the 20% improvement in flat line speed.

‘Reliability matters to us and the Linoprint CP has performed very well to date,’ said Steve Brown, managing director of the Southall based company.

‘We have been solely focused on digital printing for the past 15 years and we have had a series of machines over the years but with the Linoprint we saw an opportunity to improve the quality and throughput at a reasonable cost. The Heidelberg click charges are very competitive.’

Stroma handles many perfect bound publications but up until the point it made this most recent acquisition it had been turning away numerous landscape format titles or using trade services with litho kit to produce larger format covers. Now that the Heidelberg Linoprint can print a 700 mm sheet length there is scope to bring this work in-house.

‘We handle shorter runs and commercial work during the day and send the larger jobs at night. We really do make use of the larger capacity drawers and stacker on the Linoprint CP,’ added Steve.