A passion for books
Offset printer Karl Grammlich of Pliezhausen in southwest Germany specializes in the production of high-quality books. The family-owned firm, led by the third generation of leaders Regine Grammlich and her cousin Daniel, will be celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.
Exquisite digital production technology for exquisite short-run books
Daniel Grammlich and his cousin Regine Grammlich
Technology with added value
Grammlich chose the NEXFINITY Digital Press in the Ultra configuration, featuring an imaging system that works with 1200 x 1200 dpi. The exceptional quality is principally due to the color depth of up to 8 bit for 256 levels of exposure at this higher resolution. The NEXFINITY Digital Press is equipped with a long sheet feeder for a maximum sheet length of one meter, which Grammlich will use first and foremost for dust jackets and soft covers with flaps. In addition to Light Black KODAK HD Dry Ink, which ships with the Fifth NEXFINITY Imaging Unit as standard, the book printer also came down in favor of the Opaque White Dry Ink as well as the Clear Dry Ink. "Graphic artists and book designers love white because they can use it to achieve special design effects. And we were more impressed by Kodak's white than was the case with solutions from other suppliers. You can't get whiter than that," Regine Grammlich comments.
As well as printing orders for books received via the online store buch.one, the NEXFINITY Digital Press will also be used for book samples and advance copies where the main runs will later be produced in offset. The first few runs have confirmed Daniel Grammlich's feeling that the quality of the results is "worlds apart" from anything else his company has come up with to date using digital technology. "The NEXFINITY Press delivers a quality that we have to work hard to achieve and maintain in sheetfed offset," he observes, and his cousin Regine remarks in conclusion that, "Thanks to opaque white and clear coating, we're now in a position to offer new digital options, reduce our delivery times through higher productivity, and excite our customers more than ever with NEXFINITY Press's outstanding print quality."