Printers

Mapleroc opens a new pathway to profit for printers. How? By making change orders become a new revenue stream for your company.

For commercial printers, last-minute customer orders or job changes are a daily occurrence. To handle this low-margin work you must have the right size paper rolls ready to load on your presses.

Flexibility

The Mapleroc Roll Converting Center enables high-speed, low-operating-cost resizing of paper rolls right in your plant to give you unprecedented flexibility to meet the day-to-day demands of profitable, fast-turnaround work. The Converting Center is a complete, highly automated system, providing fast roll conversion and finishing to quickly produce resized press-ready rolls for offset, flexo, and rotogravure presses. The easy-to-operate system can process as many as 4 to 6 rolls per hour with one operator – a 300% increase over conventional rewinder production. With Mapleroc’s technology, an entire trailer truck of paper has been converted in a single hour.

On-site converting enables you to reduce your paper inventory requirements and realize real economies of scale. The Roll Converting Center enables rapid, economical resizing of jumbo rolls for smaller jobs. It easily processes roll widths up to 132 inches and diameters up to 60 inches.

Profit impact

The Mapleroc Roll Converting Center can positively impact profits for printers in numerous ways. The ability to convert paper on site opens additional opportunities for your sales staff to bring in jobs and maintain press loads. You can purchase discounted odd lot rolls and convert them to useable sizes. You can trim damaged or orphaned paper inventory to retain more value rather than dispose of them for scrap prices. You won’t have to call around for the right size roll to complete a job, then hope it is delivered in time for your press date.

Operating advantages

The Mapleroc Roll Converting Center provides rolls with the original mill wind, original winding tension and sheet orientation, eliminating the problems of rewound paper. Retaining the original mill orientation of paper results in less picking and better overall printing quality results. Having even tension throughout the roll helps press operators maintain a consistent hold on printing register, provides outstanding runnability performance and reduces the potential for web breaks.