The technical requirements production demands for web offset printers are constantly increasing. More and more printers are producing high quality work with lower grade paper and higher ink coverage. To maintain profitability, printing presses need to operate under optimum conditions -- at maximum possible print speed and with minimum paper waste. Ink coverage and diverse chemical makeup have become increasingly difficult to dry. Less expensive paper grades used by the printer to remain competitively priced can present added challenges to the heatset drying process. Press speeds at or near maximum are essential. These factors, individually and in combination with each other, have generated the need for a better means of technically managing the drying and chilling process in web printing. The new IRONMAN Integral Web Cooling Process system provides a solution to three major problems in high speed heatset printing:
By design, the IRONMAN handles the difficulties experienced in today's heatset printing environment and enables the presses to run faster with trouble-free operation.
