Direct-to-press Waterless Offset Printing

The Heidelberg Quickmaster Direct Imaging Pro press combines high quality offset printing with the speed of the digital workflow.

The Heidelberg QMDI PRO is the most recent generation of Heidelberg’s acclaimed direct imaging presses and the first of its kind to be installed in Canada. The QMDI PRO eliminates the burdensome and often time-consuming steps in making films and off-line plates thereby reducing sources of error and possible loss of quality sometimes inherent in the analogue process. Unlike DTP (Direct to Plate) where digital data is imaged to offline plates, the QMDI PRO images directly to plates on press, thus saving time and ensuring perfect registration on all printing units.

The elimination of film and reduction of make-ready time significantly reduces set-up costs and makes short run four colour offset printing economical. You no longer need to print large quantities to bring unit costs within reach. With the built-in infrared dryer, the QMDI PRO provides the same convenience and turnaround times of toner based systems.

The high-end stream feeder and online plate imaging on the QMDI PRO provide exact colour-to-colour and sheet-to-sheet registration so critical for 5th, 6th colour or off-line processes like embossing, die-cutting and foiling.

Waterless printing on the QMDI PRO ensures low dot gain and holds finer details better. The colour gamut of the waterless press is also a little wider than a traditional sheetfed press. Waterless printing also reduces environmental pollution.

Contract proofs are press-matched, ICC profiled and colour managed using Heidelberg's award winning colour management system to ensure there are no surprises when the job goes on the press.

The ability to print short runs cost effectively allows easy versioning of a full colour job aimed at specific markets and then run the job again at a later date with a new or altered message, aimed at a different audience. The ability to do this has not been lost on companies who live in a constantly changing market where demographics and trends shift almost daily. The QMDI PRO is truly an offset press for these digital times.

Samco is extending a special invitation to customers to visit our showroom on the 3rd Floor, 830 West Pender to get a glimpse of the future of printing. Make an appointment to visit Samco Printers Ltd. or call Innis Pencarrick for more information about On-Demand offset printing on the Heidelberg QMDI PRO.

Samco Printers Ltd. is an authorized
Heidelberg Direct Imaging Center.

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