Two new small machines were installed in September at Imprimerie Chauvat Bertau (ICB), located in Pontcarré in Seine-et-Marne. The company, which specialises in high-end offset and digital printing, received a Neptune laminator from manufacturer D&K and a second-hand folder-grater the Digifold Pro from Morgana.
The Neptune laminator covers formats A4 to B3 and also applies gilding films. "We do a lot of lamination, whether we have to do it manually or outsource it. This one has an automatic feeder. It was time to get a real pelliculeuse?!" explains Pierre Bertau, the head of the seven-person printing plant.
This machine also replaces the small table-top laminator converted to foil stamping. This allows the printer, in addition to traditional platen gilding, to offer digital gilding in proofs and short runs (particularly requested for wedding announcements for example).
As for the creasing-folding machine, it carries out the creasing that has been produced until now on a type plate, whose operator is retiring, and it automates the folding process carried out by hand.
And for the next investments, the printing plant will first have to make some space...
