“There is a lot more automation on the new press”, Kremer adds. “There is better registration and less make-ready, which means it’s quicker and we can turn more jobs in a shorter [amount of] time,” he said. “One of our goals is to get to sellable color while wasting less paper” on the direct mail and other work printed at Messenger Press. “Smart Insta.Color makes that easy.” adds Mitch. Another key feature that Kremer and his team like is the robust feeder. “It’s beefed up and is more heavy-duty, with less strapping,” he notes. “16,000 sheets per hour will help on all of our work, and with no electrical cabinet near the feeder there’s more room to work.”

Kremer says he traveled to RYOBI MHI customers in Cleveland and Cincinnati to observe similar perfector presses in action. “We saw the LED-UV feature on the press in Atlanta, too,” he recalls, in addition to chatting via phone with some East Coast plants. John Arnold, the technical service manager for Graphco, then “walked us through the design changes and improvements on our specific configuration.”

“We’re a job shop,” Kremer continues, “so we will need to determine where best to put the work: on our MGI digital press or the new Ryobi. When we consider the final trim size and finishing requirements of a job, we find that it can be faster to run 2,000 on the RYOBI MHI 755 XLGP than on the digital press.” The bottom line, he says, is operating as efficiently and leanly as possible -- no matter which output technology is used.

This major investment continues a longstanding tradition of constant technology improvements at The Messenger Press. “Our clients appreciate our great customer service and state of the art equipment,” concludes Kremer. Diana Griffith, Account Manager for Graphco adds, “we are thrilled to continue our nearly 20 year relationship with Allan and Mitch. The Messenger Press was the first of our MGI users to upgrade to the new Meteor 8700XL. They installed our first Horizon StitchLiner in the area and this new Ryobi will clearly give them a leading position in Northwest Ohio.”

RYOBI MHI 31-inch Press with Aqueous Coater Positions Ohio Printer for Continued Growth

SOLON, OH — June 25, 2015 - The Messenger Press, a commercial print firm in Northwest Ohio, is completing the installation of a new, 23.83” X 31” Ryobi MHI 755 XLGP perfecting press with aqueous coater purchased through Graphco, the Ryobi MHI Graphic Technology Distributor. “It’s like Christmas in June,” exclaims Mitch Kremer, who along with Allan Kremer leads the 133 year old printing firm. “We are excited to put our new addition through the paces.”

Situated just over the Indiana border, 120 miles east and north of Indianapolis, The Messenger Press has seen its share of evolutionary changes in its 133 years in business. “This will be our main production machine for short-run offset,” reports Kremer, who joined the firm six years ago and became a vice president in early 2012. “It will bring us into the next 10 to 15 years.” Messenger is replacing a 2001 vintage six-color (2 over 4) sheetfed perfector from a different manufacturer.

About The Messenger Press

For more than 100 years The Messenger Press has worked to bring true value to clients around the world. We are committed to upholding that longstanding tradition by providing more than 175 years of combined experience with leading-edge technology to produce printed materials of exceptional quality. Strong, lasting relationships are the core of our organization. These include our clients, vendors, team and community. Those relationships, and all we do, are driven by our honesty, integrity and dependability. Personal service and accountability are key to those relationships. We are quality-driven. We identify and solve problems before they happen, and getting it right the first time is our goal.
Learn more about The Messenger Press at www.messenger-press.com, 800-649-5344.

About Graphic Systems North America (GSNA)

GSNA is the largest independent source of printing equipment, technical service and parts in North America. GSNA delivers exclusive access to RYOBI MHI’s full line of offset and digital presses for commercial, packaging and in-plant printers in the U.S. and Canada, together with immediate technical support and parts fulfillment. Formed in July 2013 with co-headquarters in four U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, the GSNA group has more than $60 million in revenue and constitutes the single largest offset press sales and service team in North America.
Learn more about GSNA at www.RYOBIMHI-GSNA.com.

The Drury Inn & Suites is offering discounted hotel rates for the Commit To Print Open House in Marietta, GA on July 21st - 22nd. Offer expires July 13th, 2015.

Discounted Rate: $77.00 Per Night

To Make Your Reservation:

1) Call the Drury Inn & Suites at (770) 612-0900.

2) Ask for the Paper Handling Solutions rate (a block of rooms are being held for the RYOBI MHI Open House event.)

3) If you have any problems securing the preferred rate, please call John Lee at (770) 955-3770.

Plate changing is a key factor in determining makeready time. The RYOBI MHI SMART RPC Fully Automatic Plate Changer greatly shortens plate changing time and reduces operator workload. Through simple touch panel operation, plate changing is automatically performed on all units simultaneously. This provides powerful support for frequent job changeovers and diverse small-lot printing.

RYOBI MHI SMART RPC Process Flow

1) Plate cylinders begin in a printing status position.
2) The phase of all plate cylinders is switched to the same position.
3) Used plates are simultaneously ejected then new plates are simultaneously inserted on all printing units.
4) The phase of all plate cylinders is restored to printing status position.

Shorten Makeready Times Thanks To SMART RPC & The Smart Makeready Function

The SMART RPC further enhances work efficiency by printing in combination with the smart make-ready function which automatically performs blanket cleaning, plate changing, preset inking and test printing. Thanks to these systems, make-ready time before production printing is reduced approx. 30% (approx. 3 minutes) compared with the combination of the Full-RPC and SMART make-ready function for the 928P.

MARIETTA, GA — June 11, 2015 - J&J Printing, a Tangent Corporation, is taking delivery of a six-up RYOBI MHI 750 XLG Packaging Edition press manufactured by RYOBI MHI Graphic Technology Ltd. and purchased through RYOBI MHI Distributor Graphco. J&J Printing becomes the first print firm in the Kansas City area to offer instant LED-UV curing, which is featured on the new press.

“My partner Wayne Welkner and I saw the RYOBI MHI press at GRAPH EXPO last year and fell in love with it,” recalls Jim Ferguson, co-owner and VP of J&J Printing, which is a former Kwik Kopy franchise. “We needed to upgrade our equipment and, originally, thought we’d have to buy a used press because that’s what our budget dictated,” he explains. However, that was before Graphco encouraged Ferguson and Welkner to take a hard look at the total cost of ownership (TCO) of purchasing a new RYOBI MHI press.

Affordable ownership and a new niche

“We did our research, saw the benefits, and decided that we have to make this jump,” Ferguson continues, adding that J&J Printing is shifting from DI technology to Ryobi Smart Insta.Color as they replace a five-color 14x20 DI and two 12X18” DI presses with their new Ryobi MHI 754XLG in their 12,000-square-foot plant. Between the much faster make-ready times, three-up (11x17) gang runs and reduced payroll hours, J&J Printing management estimates a return on investment (ROI) in a few short years. “We anticipate a significant cost-of-goods reduction as well,” Ferguson notes, as there will be lower paper and plate costs on higher-page-count jobs when compared to running two-up on the DI presses. “And we can now compete on larger format jobs that weren’t available to us in the past.”

Ferguson added that he and Welkner believe that LED-UV is “the wave of the future.” Eliminating powder in the pressroom and being more energy-efficient are additional benefits from an environmental standpoint. He concludes, “Going right to finishing, after instant curing, is quite an interesting proposition.”

But why spend more for the Packaging Edition version of the Ryobi MHI 750XLG? That was a question that J&J Printing debated internally. “Ultimately, we decided that the added profitability of printing on thicker substrates, synthetics and plastics will make it worthwhile,” Ferguson says. “We’ve been searching for a new niche for the past few years and think short-run, boutique packaging will be it. We have a number of sales people who have sold packaging in the past and they will be hitting the streets with this new capability in the coming weeks.”

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About Graphic Systems North America (GSNA)

GSNA is the largest independent source of printing equipment, technical service and parts in North America. GSNA delivers exclusive access to RYOBI MHI’s full line of offset and digital presses for commercial, packaging and in-plant printers in the U.S. and Canada, together with immediate technical support and parts fulfillment. Formed in July 2013 with co-headquarters in four U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, the GSNA group has more than $60 million in revenue and constitutes the single largest offset press sales and service team in North America.

Learn more about GSNA at www.RYOBIMHI-GSNA.com.