Improvements to the 16-page commercial press cover automation, operability and integration.

They include the option of DigiRail digital inking, with its workflow, presetting and ‘smart’ inker technology, complementing the Omni Makeready software, also an option.

As a new job is about to begin, software evaluates the presets and temporarily boosts the amount of ink delivered to the ink train, reducing the time and copies needed to reach good color quality.

Similar adjustments take place just before the completion of a job to prepare the inker in advance for the next form.

An automated job change sequence option that allows job or edition changes to be completed without stopping the press.

Product manager Jean-Pierre Moioli says some M-600 press users using the facility to print several jobs a day with an average of 35-45 full-colour forms, output comparable to that achievable on Sunday 4000 and 5000 presses.

“A lot of variables unrelated to the press itself can impact the waste copies between jobs, but customer expectation is to routinely get to good copy in less than 1000 impressions,” he says. “This type of waste level, along with the possibility of continuous operation through the makeready process, can really change the entire approach to how a press is used for short-run applications.”

The company says high efficiency servo drives on all M-600 components further help to minimize the environmental impact of the press.

Almost 2500 m-600 printing units have been sold since the press was introduced in 1992.

Moioli says the DRUPA display will showcase the progressive automation, integration and ease-of-use features which have been added to the press platform and the reasons web printers continue to turn to it.