Offset press for printing boxes

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People are asking for Pizza & Picnic Boxes & Postcards as well as Brochures and Magazine Covers (all 4 Color) ? GTO 52-2? Possible?

 

For boxes you need a bigger format, there models won't suit you. For the other jobs you are ok for example, I printed yesterday a 4color envelope in my GTOZ without any loss in registration.

 

Socrates? What would you recommend for boxes?

 

OK we are completely off topic now. Anyway for boxes as big as a pizza box, you should look for a 50x70 cm class offset press. A speedmaster 72 for example, but its a different class of machines. And this means a different kind of business. If you wish, I can recomment a dealer in Germany from which I have bought my press and maybe he has a press suitable for your needs. beware though, printing boxes is not easy. You need a lot of expertise and knowledge to perform these jobs well.

 

Socrates? I'd appreciate all the help I can get? In Kenya, we've just had our Country's Budget and the upshot is? anything related to plastics and polythene? might as wel be related to the Landlord of hell...!
Paper and bio-degradable products are the in-thing and coming thing in East Africa..So. Could you let me know which manufacturers please?

 

hi jak, hows it going,

If you want to print Pizza boxes you will need to print them on Flexo, as in litho the flute of the corrugated board will squash due to the pressue from the cylinders. if you are printing solid board your best bet would be either an old Roland or a Old KBA, but it is ideal to leave a machine set up to run solid board constantly as reseting it after every job is kind of unfeasable

 

agree to ob1

 

Or you can print thin paper and glue it onto the pizza carton, this way you can produce perfect boxes

 

But this would be very unfeasable in terms of time consumption

 

Correct. Quality is always time consumpting.

 

that way is actually possible if you want to convert the solid board to corrugated and then sandwitch it with pre printed craft paper. But their is several draw backs with this, first of all the price of a corrugator is not something to laugh about and also you will have to print reel to reel and then paste so you will need a web press