Good envelope press?

Discussion in '1-Color and 2-Color Offset Presses' started by litholifer, May 26, 2011.

  1. litholifer

    litholifer Member

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    C'mon, nobody out there running envelopes on a press they would recommend? I have had good success with a GTO52 in the past, is there anything better for reliability and speed?????
     
  2. FFR428

    FFR428 Senior Member

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    I've run envelopes on all kinds of presses. How many colors? If 1-2 color any old AB dick 360, Multi 1250-1650 or Hamada 600-665 series. Even easy on the Ryobi 3302-3304. 4 color process or spot pretty easy as well. Even in 2 passes. I've had better luck with a press with a register board like the Multi, Hamada, Ryobi 3302 vs direct feed like the Dicks. Just my preference.
     
  3. FSA

    FSA Senior Member

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    litholifer
    We run a Ryobi 3302 with a astro envelope feeder, 15 mins from 11 x17 to #10's. After about another 15mins the operator is up 8000 an hour steady, I've see it run a full speed, but you need two people to keep up. We do short runs and long runs too.
    FSA
     
  4. ziggy33

    ziggy33 Senior Member

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    i run single colors on my ab dick 9850 and i run my 2 3 and 4 color ones on my ab dick 9985. Both great envelope presses never had a problem with registration or anything.
     
  5. swifty

    swifty Senior Member

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    I run #10s at 10000 an hour on our QM46/2
     
  6. plotter

    plotter Senior Member

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    my ab dick loves envelopes and for tight register, so does my rotaprint. both can run comfortably at 3-4000 per hour
     
  7. Chris from Printshop

    Chris from Printshop Senior Member

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    AB Dick 9810 with an envelope feeder. QM46-2 with an envelope feeder.

    I recently ran 100,000 C5 wallets on my GTO-46 and it didn't miss a beat. The only thing was that I haven't got a feeder for it, so I could only load 500 at a time. Got it done in 3 days & 2 plates; running at about 7k/hour.
     
  8. ziggy33

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    Don't you just love starting and stoping just to load damn envelopes!!!!!
     
  9. Chris from Printshop

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    Oh it's tedious. The press'll run 'em at 7k (indicated) but I doubt it was producing half that with all the stopping & starting!
     
  10. plotter

    plotter Senior Member

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    keeps us busy though. I think if envelopes was all i was doing id get a feeder, but the occasional 10,000 i can cope with
     

  11. Chris from Printshop

    Chris from Printshop Senior Member

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    Yeah ... they're not worth buying unless you are going to use them regularly. That's a bit of a general problem with print ... besides a press, there's all this other gear you need to have too but it sits idle for 3 weeks in four! - numbering, creasing, perfing, collating, folding ... got to be able to do it all but the machines sit idle for long periods and take up space!
     
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