Pre-press preparation is the most important stage in the production before the material is ready to go to press.

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Files are elaborated in the Kodak InSite Prepress Portal system, where files are sent, corrected and accepted online.

The prepress studio is fitted with:

• Platesetter CTP Kodak Magnus 800 Quantum
• Plate processor Kodak mercury HD
• Laser printer Canon C700i Epson 4800 with software for colour management and the ISO certificate for colour concordance

OZGraf S.A has extensive and modern machinery, allowing for the highest print quality. Printwork information is transmitted from the prepress studio directly to the printing machines via a state-of-the-art CIP3 system. Printing and the ink units are controlled in Heidelberg machines using a colour measurement system called ImageControl.

We offer one-, two- and four-colour printing on sheet-fed printing presses:

• Heidelberg Speedmaster SM-102-8–P machine: eight-colour (or four-plus-four) printing in B1 format
• Heidelberg Speedmaster SM-102-2-P machine: two-colour (or one-plus-one) printing in B1 format
• Heidelberg Speedmaster SX-102-8+P machine: eight-colour (or four-plus-four) printing in B1 format

In addition, we offer the possibility of refining our products through selective UV varnish coating and matt or glossy film lamination using the following machines::

• Laminator – Juppiter Landcape
• Sakurai Cylinder S.C.-72A II – coating of B1 prints with UV varnish

OZGraf S.A. modern bookbindery provides the following bindings:

• Saddle-stitched bindings
• Sewn and glued perfect bindings
• Sewn and glued hardcover bindings

We can produce additional case components such as:

• dust jackets
• wraparound bands
• stickers
• inserts
• paste-downs, endsheets
• cardboard or carton slipcases, all wrapped in paper or cloth
• rounded block corners
• perforated block corners
• perfect binding flaps

Available binding formats (width x height x depth of the spine):

Saddle-stitched bindings

• Min. 100 x 150 mm
• Max. 300 x 475 mm

Sewn and glued perfect bindings

• Min 100 x 150mm
• Max 300 x 475mm

Sewn and glued hardcover bindings

• Min. 100 x 145 x 2 mm
• Max. 280 x 375 x 80 mm – round spine
• 285 x 375 x 40 mm
• 300 x 375 x 30 mm – flat spine

The bookbindery has the following equipment for:

Textblock preparation

Folding machines:

• Stahl KD (B1 format)
• Heidelberg Stahlfolder KH-78/4(B1 format)

Collators:

• LBW (24 stations)
• Kolbus (24 stations)
• Stitchers::

ASTER 160 OS

Hardcover Binding Preparation

• We produce solid cardboard cover boards with thicknesses ranging from 1 to 4mm:
• All made of paper (laminated, UV spot varnished)
• Made of cloth (hot stamped)
• Made from cloth (laminated, UV, stamped)
• Cover mounting machines:
• Kolbus DA 270
• Cover hot stamping machine: Kolbus PE 312

Hardcover Binding Production

• Complete modern two-shot binding line.
• When gluing the textblock spine together, the spine is also coated with dispersion and hot melt adhesives. The line allows to produce perfect binding, either sewn or glued, with flat or round
• spine featuring very high strength and visual properties:
• Sigloch SB-6000 perfect binder (including attachment of endsheets)
• KOLBUS HD 140 P three-knife trimmer
• Kolbus COMPACT 60 BF 526 – attachment of textblock to the cover
• The binding line can also ‘accommodate’ the Sigloch LEH-1 ribbon inserter (up to four ribbons).

Perfect Binding Production

• Muller-Martini Pantera sewn and glued hardcover binder

Saddle-Stitched Binding Production

• Bravo saddle stitcher

Finished Product Packaging

• Single unit is shrink wrap
• Shipping containers in shrink wrap
• Shipping containers in brown paper