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ShinoharaShinohara 52 Multicolor Offset Printing Presses |
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Figure 1. Shinohara 52 Multicolor Sheetfed Offset Printing Press. |
In today's competitive world, a printing press must be crafted with two very different things: rugged components and sensitive, easy-to-use controls. Here, the Shinohara 52 Multicolor series excels, offering a harmony of solid, time-tested Shinohara components and advanced, intuitive controls.
You could say that the Shinohara 52 Multicolor embodies the perfect fit for mind over matter, offering versatility in a rugged efficient form factor. Mind, in the form of intelligent control devices: operation console, POD control panel, Shinohara CIP-3 station. And matter, in the form of rugged subsystems: advanced perfecting unit, semi-automatic plate changer (SPC), plate cylinder cocking; blanket and ink-roller auto wash-up, and feeder system.
This 52 Multicolor press also offers outstanding flexibility and high productivity, thanks to automation in changeover, cleanup, and cocking. Meanwhile, it also adheres to emerging standards for digital printing press controls, which Shinohara is helping to establish.
See also the Shinohara Model 52 2 color offset presses.
For more information, please contact us at (503) 255-5800 or (800) 278-5123.
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Operation Console |
An (optional) operation console is available for further boosts in productivity. Ink-key apertures, ink/water fountain foller speeds, plate cylinder radial/lateral positioning, plate cylinder cocking, and other functions can be regulated from the free-standing unit. Up to 1000 settings can be saved to an internal IC, or up to 20 jobs can be saved to an optional floppy disk drive; in repeat runs, the information can be used to save time in setup. The operation console is compatible with the CIP-3 specifications.
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POD Control Panel |
The touch-screen control panel (POD) gives operators a sophisticated level of control. The large-sized POD makes it possible to numerically adjust plate cylinder radial/lateral position, inking and dampening roller speeds, and other operational settings -- all from the delivery side. Should a malfunction occur, data is immediately displayed and countermeasures are suggested on the screen. Safety and throughput are therefore high.
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Shinohara CIP-3 Station |
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It is possible to determine the optimum ink-key aperture settings for a job using only its PPF files. Installing the Shinohara CIP-3 station software on a Windows NT-based PC or server allows those settings to be calculated and passed to the operation console, further streamlining operations. CIP-3 is an organization promoting the use of PPF, the Print Production Format. As text and image processing, and the entire prepress industry -- becomes more and more digital based, CIP-3 is transforming the world of print media.
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Advanced Perfecting Unit |
International perfecting patents -- covering such innovations as the master/subgripper system that ensures trouble-free sheet transfer -- allow Shinohara to achieve a level of perfecting quality that other companies cannot match. For added precision, the 52 Multicolor series uses an extra-rigit double-diameter transfer cylinder and single-diameter turnover drum, both monocast in the Shinohara foundry. An optimal semi-automatic perfecting changeover system reduces perfecting setup time to less than one minute.
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Semi-Automatic Plate Changer (SPC) |
With the (optional) Shinohara semi-automatic plate changer (SPC) any operator can complete plate changeover in less than one minute per unit. The operator simply inserts a plate into the leading-edge clamp on the plate cylinder, and then presses a button. With the SPC a 90 degree bender is not required, so efficiency is high. The operation is guided through the POD control screen.
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Plate Cylinder Cocking |
Very fine adjustments can be made to plate cylinder cocking in just a few seconds per cylinder. Remote-controlled tuning can be performed either from the POD control screen or from the operation console. Manual cocking adjustment can also be made from an optional operator-side calibrated dial. In either case, cocking can be set anywhere within +/- .01 mm of the center position. (The picture shows an optional cocking calibrated dial attached on the operation-side side cover on each printing unit.)
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Blanket and Ink-Roller Auto Wash-Up |
Automatic solenoid-driven blanket and ink-roller wash-up systems are optionally available to simplify cleaning operations in the 52 Multicolor series. Blank and ink-roller cleaning can therefore be completed at the touch of a button, in under one minute.
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Feeder System |
Shinohara's center-separation stream feeder offers high reliability and tremendous adaptability. A preloading feeder pile and optional integrated brush/wheel adjustment contribute to the high rate of throughput in the 52 Multicolor series. Feeder timing can be microadjusted, even during operation, by simply turning a hand wheel, so operators can instantly adapt to changes in paper quality, size, and thickness. Two double-sheet detectors, one mechanical an done electronic, make extra sure that there are no feeder problems.
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Note: all design features are subject to change without notice.
| Specification | 4 Colors | 5 Colors | 6 Colors | |
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| Maximum Production Speed | Single-sided | 12,000 IPH | ||
| Perfecting | 12,000 IPH | |||
| Maximum Sheet Size | 14-9/16" x 20-15/32" (370mm x 520mm) | |||
| Minimum Sheet Size | Single-sided | 3-15/18" x 5-53/64" (100mm x 148mm) | ||
| Perfecting | 7-11/64" x 8-17/64" (182mm x 210mm) | |||
| Runnable Paper Thickness | Single-sided | 0.002" to 0.016" (0.04mm to 0.4mm) | ||
| Perfecting | 0.002" to 0.012" (0.04mm to 0.3mm) | |||
| Maximum Printing Area | 14-11/64" x 20-5/64" (360mm x 510mm) | |||
| Plate Size |
15-3/4" to 16-1/2" x 20-5/64" x 0.006"/0.008"
* For SPC and Shinohara quick plate clamping system: |
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| Feeder Pile Height | 35-7/16" (900mm) | |||
| Delivery Pile Height | 16-1/2" (420mm) | |||
| Machine Weight | Single-sided | 7,900 kg (17,380 lbs) | 9,900 kg (21,780 lbs) | 11,900 kg (26,180 lbs) |
| Perfecting | 7,800 kg (17,160 lbs) | 9,800 kg (21,560 lbs) | 11,800 kg (25,960 lbs) | |
| Machine Dimensions (LxWxH) | 172-3/64" x 69-9/32" x 64-1/32" (4,370mm x 1,760mm x 1,652mm) | 204-21/64" x 69-9/32" x 64-1/32" (5,190mm x 1,760mm x 1,652mm) | 236-39/64" x 69-9/32" x 64-1/32" (6,010mm x 1,760mm x 1,652mm) | |
Note: all specifications are subject to change without notice.
For more information, please contact us at (503) 255-5800 or (800) 278-5123.
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Shinohara produces quality, commercial duty, professional sheetfed offset color printing presses for the printing and graphic arts industry. As of year 2000, the company Shinohara has been in business for over 80 years. Shinohara is located in Japan and has produced many varieties of sheetfed offset printing presses that offer superb print quality, low maintenance, and fast makereadies. Heidelberg printing presses and Komori sheet-fed offset color printing presses have nothing over the Shinohara line of presses.
In the market for a digital offset sheetfed color printing press? Compare Shinohara to Heidelberg digital sheetfed presses and Komori offset color presses. Shinohara offers the simplest most cost effective solution to go from digital prepress to on-press color makeready. Here's the lifecycle in a nutshell: Prepress Production software on say a Macintosh computer, via Network 100 BaseT ethernet LAN, to a CIP3 (committee for prepress, press, and postpress) converter, which can be a Windows NT Shinohara CIP3 Station, to a Shinohara printing control console, to a Shinohara model 52, 66, 74, or 104 color printing press. Now compare this prepress to press to postpress process to that of a Heidelberg. Heidelberg is more complex. It goes from a prepress production software over a Network 100 BaseT ethernet connection to a CPC32 converter, then to a CPC51 converter, then to a printing control console, then to a Heidelberg printing press. Komori's digital prepress to press to postpress process is the msot complex of all. It goes from a prepress production software system over the 100 BaseT ethernet line to a CIP3 converter on a Windows NT or 95 or 98 system, to a Macintosh (!) which writes to a magnetic card writer, then via the magnetic card to a printing control console, finally to the Komori printing press. Whew! complicated digital press lifecycle.
Shinohara's line of color printing presses are CIP3 compliant. CIP3 (committee or cooperation for prepress, press, and postpress) is a growing initiative in the printing and prepress industry over the last couple years to combine the process of press, prepress and postpress and thereby streamline print production. This combination of functions is a giant step forward toward integrating the manufactury of printing materials (read books, pamphlets, leaflets, flyers, catalogs, you name it) by computers. Aka computer integrated manufacturing (CIM). Thus the digital, because computers are digital systems. So you could also say digital integrated manufacturing of printed material. The Fraunhofer Institute for computer Graphics in Western Germany, together with several press makers (including Heidelberg) is responsible for creating CIP3. CIP3's base technology is print production format (PPF), whereby related printing information or data is shared acrosss processes and systems. CIP3 PPF for long.:w
Model 52 II is a two-color sheet-fed offset color printing presses. "52" because it supports 370 x 520 mm sheets. That's 520 or 52x10 mm of wider stock range. The maximum sheet size and printing area of the 52 two-color series have been increased to 370mm x 520 mm (14-9/16" x 20-15/32") and 360mm x 510mm (14-11/64"x20-5/64"). The minimum sheet size in single-sided mode (II) is A6-type postcard -- just 100mm x 148mm (3-15/16" x 5-53/64"), and stocks of thicknesses from 0.04mm to 0.4mm (0.0002" to 0.016") can be run at rates of up to 12,000 IPH. This wide range of paper sizes and thicknesses for the 52II and 52IIP sheetfed press means greater throughput and increased business opportunities for printing companies and printing subdepartments. The "P" in 52IIP stands for reverse out or duplex or double-side or two-side printing of the offset press.
Standard features of the Shinohara model 52 II and IIP two-color printing presses include preloading feeder pile, mechanical double-sheet detector, electronic double-sheet detector, feeder timing microadjustment, skewed-sheet detector, overrun sheet detector, remote ink fountain roller sweep adjustment, split ink fountain blade, continuous dampening system, remote dampening roller speed control, dampening solution refrigeration and circulation device, automatic alcohol supply system, operator-side impression adjustment dial, sheet decurler, delivery static eliminator, spray powder device, faulty delivered sheet detector, ani-marking system (star wheel), and POD touchscreen.
Optional features include side guide detector, anti-static blower on feeder head, integrated brush and wheel adjustment, dampening fountain solution mixing device, ceramic dampening fountain roller, ghosting reduction form rollers, hickey picker blade, Shinohara semi-automatic plate changer (SPC), plate cylinder cocking system, quick plate clamp system, register pin system, automatic blanker washup system, anti-marking system on the no. 2 impression cylinder of the 52IIP, non-stop delivery, radial perforating device, tab inserter, anti-marking system (super blue or ICP), swing-away unit (imprinting and numbering).
In printing, everything begins with precision. Sturdy components, advanced manufacturing, and a unique foundry have given Shinohara sheetfed model 52 offset color printing presses a reputation for extraordinary precision. Heidelberg or Komori printing presses have nothing over the 52 two-color press.
Today, runs are shorter, changeover more frequent, and customers more demanding. In response, Shinohara 52 2-color series' high level of automation helps to increase printing press cycle time, reduce offset workload, and boost color printing productivity.
The Shinohara 52II (2 color single-sided) and 52 IIP (2 color duplex, or double-sided, or reverse out, or perfector) accept large sheets, and are loaded with optional features (see above), allowing print shops, printing departments, at for instance colleges or univerisities, or commercial shops, a wider range of services for your sheet-fed demanding customers. Expand printing and imprinting business to include color postcards, numbering, imprinting, and much more.
