The Manroland Sheetfed Roland 700 Evolution was the workhorse carton printing press at drupa demonstrating a huge number of metallic and coating effects and textures throughout the show. The sleek and futuristic design of the press which also won it the 2015 Red Dot Design Award – the first printing press ever to receive this prestigious honour.
The Roland 700 Evolution press sheetfed being demonstrated was an 8-color press with foiler and double coater built for a Swiss carton printer who specializes in pharma cartons. A press like this with the new automation features and touchpad like interface can be bought for something like 3 to 3.5 million Euros.
Rafael Panuela, CEO of Manroland Sheetfed initiated drupa 2016’s first press conference by calmly reflecting on the strong viability of the company renewed as a division of the British Langley group. In answer to my question to him, Panuela said that roughly 50% of the company’s revenues are from new press sales and the balance 50% from the sales of spare parts and service and consulting revenues.
Manroland Sheetfed’s Evolution 700 is an innovative press best understood by the many carton printers who hold the 700 series in general in high regard. The renewed company emphasizes its strong customer orientation, that it highlights with its ProServ 360º PERFORMANCE for providing complete production security, from the moment of investment, through intensive regular machine check-upsto maintenance and productivity analysis.
Its press management and quality management portfolio from print network, helps printers establish highly automated production processes through networking, order process, automatic quality control and color management products. And its control and automation print module known as Printcom is designed for stable, high quality, eco-friendly print production through the very latest certified system components, from prepress to pressroom.
