{"id":23889,"date":"2015-10-05T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/screeneurope.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:07:21","slug":"major-investment-heralds-podws-entry-into-the-inkjet-technology-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/news\/major-investment-heralds-podws-entry-into-the-inkjet-technology-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Major investment heralds PODW\u2019s entry into the inkjet technology market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-left\">\n<div id=\"right\">\n<article>Future-proofing the digital book and journal business through automation with the Screen Truepress and Hunkeler finishing technology.Printondemand-worldwide (PODW) has invested in a three-phase automation and technology overhaul in its Peterborough, UK-based print and logistics facility. Major investment into in-house inkjet print and finishing technology and automation will future-proof the business as it moves towards its 20th trading year in 2015. PODW has been servicing book and journal publishers of all sizes with auto stock and virtual stock solutions and is leading the way in revolutionising production choice and digital colour for the \u2018book of one\u2019.Investment in the highest possible quality and production efficiency was made with a \u00a3500k investment in a bespoke Hunkeler book block line with high speed, dynamic perforating, cutter and offset stacker which was installed in July this year. PODW has also invested in a duplex Screen Truepress Jet520Z Inkjet press which delivers superior inkjet quality and complements the company\u2019s existing toner-based OCE and iGen printers.<\/p>\n<p>Publishers will benefit from PODW\u2019s \u2018LEAN\u2019 book manufacturing environment producing a publisher\u2019s job on the same day ready for shipping the next day &#8211; matching, if not exceeding, the speed of a traditional warehouse operation. Books will now automatically flow through a state-of-the-art print production facility from print order to shipping area with minimal touch points and minimal handling to ensure maximum quality and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Owner and Managing Director, Andy Cork says \u201cWe had to get the finishing right before ordering the inkjet digital press. Our aim is to link all the processes from order right through to dispatch. The benefit for publishers is choice; publishers will be able to choose either inkjet or toner print production, depending upon their quality, run-length and cost requirements. The Truepress will be able to handle production runs from as low as one up to 1,000 copies which opens up fast turnaround \u2018on-demand\u2019 book and journal printing opportunities for publishers. The Hunkeler and Screen investments will make PODW one of the most automated SME printers in the industry today producing books of one at speeds of up to 128m\/minute and that puts us firmly in a unique position compared to our competitors\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content-right\">\n<div class=\"column-item\">\n<div class=\"column-item-inside\">InfoTrends White Paper &#8211; Truepress Jet 520HD with SC Inks<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-item\">\n<div class=\"column-item-inside\">A new standard in digital label printing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-item\">\n<div class=\"column-item-inside\"><a title=\"Opportunities at Screen\" href=\"\/contact\/\">Opportunities at Screen<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-item\">\n<div class=\"column-item-inside\"><a title=\"See Screen&#039;s Packaging Solutions\" href=\"\/products\/packaging\/\">See Screen&#8217;s Packaging Solutions<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future-proofing the digital book and journal business through automation with the Screen Truepress and Hunkeler finishing technology.Printondemand-worldwide (PODW) has invested in a three-phase automation and technology overhaul in its Peterborough, UK-based print and logistics facility. Major investment into in-house inkjet print and finishing technology and automation will future-proof the business as it moves towards its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[40],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-23889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-corporate-fr","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31022,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23889\/revisions\/31022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23889"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=23889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}