St Ives Florida To Install Second Komori Printing Press

December 01 2008

South Florida Operations Retool Web Offset Platform

Hollywood, FL (December, 1, 2008) - St Ives Inc, one of America’s leading Web-offset printing companies, is preparing to install a second new Komori System 38 Web-Offset Printing Press at its Hollywood, Florida, facility. The new Komori press is scheduled to arrive in mid December 2008 and expected to be placed into full production mode early March 2009.

“St Ives purchase of another state-of-the-art press demonstrates our company’s continued commitment to the growth of our business,” says Wayne R. Angstrom, St Ives’ Chairman/CEO. “We continue to invest capital in support of our stakeholders and our production process in an effort to assure the continued satisfaction of our customers.”

“This second press follows a highly successful start-up of the first new Komori System 38 at our Hollywood facility earlier this calendar year,” adds Angstrom. “These new presses allow us to reach color in just 800 cutoffs and pull a complete four color changeover in less than 12 minutes. Combined with net speeds in excess of 40,000 impressions per hour, we’re now ultra competitive across the full range of products from quantities as low as a few thousand pieces up to several hundred thousand pieces per order .”

St Ives is an award-winning creative and print service provider specializing in magazines, catalogs, annual reports, digital, sheet-fed and Web commercial printing, saddlewire, perfect binding, direct mail and fulfillment services. St Ives has locations at 2025 McKinley Street, Hollywood, FL, 33020, telephone 954-920-7300 and 4437 E. 49th Street, Cleveland, OH 44125, telephone 216-271-5300. The company is ISO-9001:2000 certified with a focus on total quality management.



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