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Graphiscan Adds New Heidelberg Postpress in Montreal

Graphiscan of Montréal, Quebec, plans to grow their packaging department and increase their overall margin with the installation of a new Easymatrix 106 CS diecutter from Heidelberg. It is the first company to purchase the Easymatrix in North America.

The new Easymatrix 106 CS diecutter in Montréal runs alongside an existing five-colour Speedmaster CD 102 with coater. Graphiscan has four locations throughout Canada. By installing the Easymatrix 106 CS, the company is eliminating a lot of postpress outsourcing work it had been sending to trade shops –allowing them to increase overall margin.

“You can control your jobs from A to Z,” said Denis Gagnon, President of Graphiscan. “We no longer have to ship sheets to and from trade shops, which saves us valuable time and keeps profit and labor within Graphiscan.”

Processing boards as thick as 78 pt thick with a 29.4 x 41.7-inch format at speeds up to 7,700 sheets per hour, the Easymatrix 106 CS is larger than most diecutters in its class. The Easymatrix 106 CS is able to handle output directly from the Speedmaster CD 102, which allows Graphiscan to perform high volumes of full-sized diecutting jobs.

“Packaging currently represents 25 percent of our business,” said Gagnon. “We think that the Easymatrix 106 is the critical finishing piece to allow our packaging department to enable packaging to become half of our total business in the next few years.”