Tags: WRH Challenger / WRH Docu-Pack / WRH Marketing UK

WRH Marketing UK Ltd is a leading name in the newspaper and commercial print sectors, where it represents Ferag and JobFolio post press systems, and the company says it plans to duplicate this success in other graphic arts markets following agreements with several manufacturers to represent them in the UK.  This includes the Liechtenstein manufacturer Unigraphica, which has recently launched two finishing systems.

The first of these is the Challenger post press system for the production of magazines, catalogues, books and newspapers that have been printed reel-to-reel.  Challenger, which can handle up to seven webs in one pass, offers inkjet printing, personalization, plus card and label application on any position or side of the webs, which are precisely registered prior to entering the folding unit and down-stream finishing or perfect binding unit.

The Challenger post press system has been designed for the production of magazines, catalogues, books and newspapers that have been printed reel-to-reel.

“Challenger provides an off-line finishing system that is compact, highly efficient and fast,” says James Thomas, WRH Marketing UK Sales Manager (national).  “It offers a unique method of taking products that have been printed reel-to-reel and converting them into finished items.  Operations can include perforating, gluing, punching and varnishing.

“Pages can be individually personalized with several added value options.  Challenger really is a revolution in giving the user hassle-free finishing of work, whether it has been printed digitally or via conventional web offset.  It’s a technology that could make it feasible for sheet-fed printers to invest in a web-based printing system.”

The other new multi-purpose finishing system from Unigraphica is the Docu-Pack, which provides die-cutting, perforating, creasing, label applications and laminating options.  Docu-Pack can be used with stock from 140 x 180 mm up to 360 x 520 mm and from 50 gsm to 0.4 mm in thickness.  Production speed is 8,000 A3 sph.  Docu-Pack can be used to produce items as diverse as business/post cards, CD labels, stickers, packaging and magazine covers.

The new Docu-Pack multi-purpose finishing system provides die-cutting, perforating, creasing, label applications and laminating options.

About WRH Marketing UK Ltd

WRH Marketing UK Limited is the sales and service operation for FERAG AG technology in post-press processing in the newspaper and commercial printing industry and delivers quality products from a portfolio of trading partners to the UK and Ireland.

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the WRH Marketing Group, which belongs – together with FERAG AG – to the WRH Walter Reist Holding AG. WRH employs approximately 1500 people worldwide. The head office is based in Hinwil near Zurich, Switzerland.