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AIIM to Install Manroland HiPrint Perfecting Press

Avant Imaging & Integrated Media Inc. this April is scheduled to install a Manroland R706PLV HiPrint perfecting press into its 100,000-square-foot facility in Aurora, Ontario. The 41-inch R706PLV HiPrint will be AIIM’s second manroland press, joining an existing manroland R710 HiPrint that was installed more than a decade ago and is to remain in operation.

Mario and Frank Giorgio founded what is now called Avant Imaging & Integrated Media (AIIM) in 1990. Today, the operation, with 90 full-time employees, provides a range of offset and digital printing capabilities, as well as fulfillment and mailing services. Focused on producing high-value products, AIIM has been at the forefront of leveraging data to drive its toner and inkjet presses for a number of years, which also includes integrating offset work.

AIIM explains its core strength is still commercial printing, but has developed what the company describes as 10 unique service lines for the enterprise output chain. These branded services include aiim•PRINTSMART, aiim•ON·DEMAND, aiim•FULFILLMENT, aiim•CONNX, aiim•ANALYTICS, aiim•1:1, aiim•DIRECTMAIL, aiim•SMARTSTATEMENTS, aiim•VICIMAP, aiim•LARGE FORMAT and aiim•SOCIAL.

“Over time, the industry changed and we entered the digital era. Early on, we foresaw the need to shift our business focus from basic print applications to more sophisticated print and direct-marketing capabilities,” said Frank Giorgio. “That’s why we’ve adapted and evolved into a high-ROI, highly integrated marketing company offering print collateral, high-response data-driven direct-mail campaigns, social media promotion – even augmented reality.”

Giorgio continued to explain that AIIM purchased the manroland press mainly because of its perfecting capabilities. The R706PLV HiPrint has a perfector in the second position, making it a 2-over-4 press, which the company describes as being well suited for producing high-quality, direct mail.

“We still do a lot of perfecting and sometimes we have a need, for example, for 1-over-1, 2-over-2, 2-over-4 or 1-over-4 jobs, or at the high end, for six-colour plus aqueous coating,” said Giorgio. “This press can do all those in one pass, which reduces our turnaround times and gets jobs to our clients much faster.”

The new R706PLV HiPrint press, purchased through manroland Sheetfed Canada, is also equipped with ColorPilot D&F on its console, which manroland states to be the fastest technology of its kind – providing high-end density and spectral colour measurement/control – on the market.

In recent years, Manroland Sheetfed has added new features to its Roland 700 HiPrint series, including simultaneous plate loading, higher precision sheet guiding technology, printing speeds up to 17,200 sheets per hour, an upgraded Inline Inspector quality control, a sheet-numbering system, low energy UV drying technology, and an Indexed Inline Foiler that creates less waste.