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Headley Brothers invests Brand new
in third Heidelberg
features now
10-unit long perfector
available on
HeadTurner
A variety of extra features are now available
on HeadTurner, Headley Brothers’ new
online media service. This digital page-turning
software enables a publisher to produce
a digital version of a magazine alongside
printed editions, ideal for reaching a wider
audience and to further optimise their
readers’ experience.
HeadTurner already comes with a statistics
package to track reader behaviour, an email
collection facility; a subscription
management system and video, audio and
flash insertion capabilities. The new features
just introduced include:
Animated Flipbook Icon
This new feature allows a publisher to draw
Headley Brothers is continuing its strategic
The SM102 handles work of up to 720 x
attention to the publication on their website or
investment programme by announcing the
1,020mm at a perfecting speed of 12,000sph,
blog with an animated page-turning icon called
purchase of a third Heidelberg Speedmaster
with a minimum sheet size of 400 x 480mm
‘Flipbook’ which links to the online edition.
SM102-10P; the number one 700 x 1,000mm
in perfecting mode or 340 x 480mm in
How does Flipbook work? Once a digital
perfecting press on the market.
straight printing. It is a highly sophisticated
edition has been published, an 8-page
Another SM102 will prove to be compatible
press, featuring quick make-ready and very
preview of the publication is generated, called
with existing pre-press and finishing
high productivity, and can print up to five
‘Flipbook’. Once the publication goes live,
equipment as well as in terms of training,
colours, or four colours plus a sealer, in
a text field will be displayed with the code
support, back up, stocking, roller and plate
one pass. This allows Headleys to respond
needed to embed this icon on a webpage.
size. The 10-unit press combines maximum
to customer requirements with maximum
The size of the icon can be altered in the
efficiency with flexibility; flexibility in the form
quality, precision, flexibility and speed.
advanced production settings by changing the
of the press’s 10 units, which allow for in-line
“A new 10-colour perfecting press is
width in pixels
sealing and perfection on four-colour jobs,
a considerable and timely investment,”
(the height will change
and the efficient printing of spot colours,
says Managing Director Roger Pitt. “Our
automatically).
and in the form of its CutStar unit.
investment in previous SM102 presses has
This feature can
also be disabled in
The CutStar offers the flexibility of feeding
been hugely successful and has provided us
advanced production settings.
the press with paper in reel form. This
with the maximised efficiency and flexibility
enables a sheet-fed press to run lower paper
that we need to hedge against specific
Media Browser
grammages and reduces waste by cutting to
market downturns. The SM102 with CutStar
HeadTurner now features a media display
the specific format required. The accuracy
is extremely flexible in terms of product size,
menu that allows readers to view and
of register and reliable sheet transport
and paper wastage is lower. Considering the
browse a series of images, audio, video
significantly reduce waste generation, and
trend towards shorter print runs in certain
and flash from within the publication.
the machine is equipped with an adjustable
magazine sectors, this press provides us with
Reader Highlights
ink fountain for faster ink changes. This is
the flexibility to cater for those variations.
Readers are also now able to add yellow
a valuable asset for publishing clients, who
“We have chosen a 10-colour rather than an
highlights to areas or articles of interest.
increasingly need to source environmentally
8-colour because this press must last 10 to
responsible print, and fits well with the
15 years. Some work, especially where silk
A special feature on how video integration
Headley Brothers’ environmental stance,
and satin papers are used, need to be sealed
within an online publication can help boost
since the company is ISO 14001 accredited
to prevent marking and with our commercial
advertising sales can be found on the
and holds both PEFC and FSC Chain of
work in particular, there is some demand for
opposite page.
Custody certificates.
spot colours. We need to do complete jobs
For more information on HeadTurner please
in one pass.”
contact Pre-Media Manager Jim Duggan on
4 headsup
01233 623131, jim.duggan@headley.co.uk.
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