Installations News
Emerson Clarke Installs Canada’s First NexPress SX3300

Calgary-based
Emerson Clarke, led by Len Knight, Rich Berg and Dave Smith, becomes
the first commercial printing company in Canada to purchase Kodak’s
recently introduced NexPress SX3300 press.

The
new press, purchased through Coast Paper (a division of PaperlinX
Canada), is integrated with an optional long sheet feeder, which
allows for working with a 14 x 26-inch sheet, while the standard
feeder works with a size of 14 x 20.47 inches.

“We
were losing a lot of the bigger digital jobs because our printer was
just too small,” said Len Knight, Operations Manager of Emerson Clarke,
who is a partner in the company with Rich Berg and Dave Smith. Emerson
Clarke also runs offset presses, including a five-colour, 29-inch press
with a coater.

The
NexPress SX3300 has been fitted with Kodak’s Print Genius image
processing and a fifth imaging unit, which allows for watermarking,
protection coating, glossing, MICR printing, gamut expansion, red
fluorescing ink for security applications, and in-line dimensional
printing.

According
to Kodak, the NexPress SX platform prints on more than 700 standard
offset substrates, including coated, uncoated, FSC, plastics, magnets,
linens, static clings, and micro-perforated substrates. It is rated for a
monthly duty cycle of up to 4.4 million pages and hits printing speeds of 91, 109
or 131 ppm when printing on 26-inch long sheets.