Goss has introduced a new 4/1 press based on its Universal concept, joining the Uniliner S and pioneering Mainstream 80 design (acquired from Heidelberg) in its range.
The first ‘new-generation’ Universal XL is being installed at Italian commercial printer Union Printing in Viterbo, 70 kilometres north of Rome, and will be used to print coldset supermarket flyers and inserts.
The new press design is a double-width, one-around format, developed to meet the need for smaller circulations of high-pagination products. Fewer webs and towers are required than for a single-width press, while the efficiency and versatility of single-around production is maintained.
The press at Union Printing has two towers with a 1700 mm web width and 578 mm cut-off. Equipped with two folders – one 1:3:3 and one 1:2:2, each with one former and a quarterfold – it will run at 40,000 copies per hour, printing multiple paginations from four up to 32 tabloid pages.
Reelstands have been placed at right-angles in what Goss calls a T90 layout, and the Union press has additional turner bars above the four-high towers to cut the web in up to four ribbons prior entering the folder. It also has blanket wash and colour and register controls.
The July delivery less than six months after the contract was signed.
