On the cutting edge
of the avant-garde.

For beautiful work, you need good tools.
There’s no other way!

Our equipment is the industry reference. We pamper it with a complete weekly maintenance program, allowing us to optimize its efficiency and maintain the constant quality and reliability of our work.

List of equipment

Presses

Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102-6LX
6-colour press plus aqueous varnishing unit (w.b.)

Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102-5LX
5-colour press plus aqueous varnishing unit (w.b.)

These two presses have the following features:
- Heidelberg DryStar drying
- Maximum format: 28.35 in x 40.5 in
- Minimum format: 11.5 in x 17.5 in
- Maximum printing: 27.95 in x 40.25 in
- Paper thickness: 0.003 to 0.040 thousandths of an inch
- 15,000 sheets per hour
- VARIO system for uniform printing
- CP2000 command centre
- Automatic plate wedging device
- Modular blanket washup device
- Aqueous varnishing unit (Anilox)
(high gloss, gloss, satin, matte), local or full surface
- Intellitrax system
(colour control with integrated spectrodensitometer)

Heidelberg Speedmaster ZP 102
2-clour press
- Maximum format: 28.35 in x 40.5 in
- Minimum format: 11.5 in x 17.5 in
- Maximum printing: 27.95 in x 40.25 in
- Paper thickness: 0.003 to 0.040 thousandths of an inch
- 12,000 sheets per hour
- Perfector
- CPC1.02 command centre

Complete solvent recovery system
- Allows filtering and recovery of solvents and wastewater
- Efficiency rate up to 95%
- Wetting solution recuperator

Heidelberg PrintMaster 1-colour press + Print Line
- 28.35 in x 40.5 in
- Excellent printing and inking quality
- Alcolor wetting system

Heidelberg Speed Master
2-colour press
- 14 in x 20 in
Excellent quality printing and good inking capacity

Hamada 665-CD
2-colour duplicator
- 11 3/4 in x 17 in
- For stationery, good quality printing, reduced inking
- Numbering and perforating system

Heidelberg (2)
Cutting cylinders
- 22 1/2 in x 32 1/2 in and 15 3/4 in x 22 1/2 in
- Precision cutting (24 points or less)
- Grooves and perforations

Digital presses

L’Empreinte is expanding its range of services by offering digital printing of your documents. In a professional environment, your digital projects will be treated with care, benefiting from all the necessary equipment for preparation, but especially for finishing of your work (folder, blade, cutting cylinder, stapler, hole punch, cello wrapper, etc.)

Xerox iGen4
Xerox Docucolor 8000
Xerox DC12

- 4-colour digital printing
- Printing up to 2,400 dpi
- Calibrated to the standards of our presses
- Maximum format: 14.33 in x 20.5 in (14 in x 20 in with bleeds)
- Speed: up to 6 600 impressions per hour
- Wide variety of papers
- Paper thickness up to 16 pts
- Mac and PC file processing
- Custom printing

Nuvera 120
Xerox 4110

- Black and white digital printing
- Printing up to 2,400 dpi
- Maximum format: 13 in x 19 in (12.5 in x 18,5 in with bleeds)
- Speed: up to 7,200 impressions per hour
- Custom printing

Plant and offices
Total area: 50 000 ft2
Schedule
- Office: Monday to Friday – 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Production: Sunday 7:00 p.m. to Saturday 7:00 p.m.
- Maintenance: Sunday 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Binding

Baum
Folder
- Minimum: 4 in x 6 in
- Maximum: 20 1/2 in x 33 in
- 2 sections (right angle)
- 4 folds per section (capacity to fold 2 or 3 sections high with circular blade) (maximum signature 8 pages 8 1/2 in x 11 in)
- Speed: 6,500 sheets per hour

Polar 92-E
Blade - 36 in
- Electronic programming: 99 channels

Polar 115E
Blade - 45 in
-Electronic programming: 2 x 99 channels

Polar 115ED
Blade - 45 in
- Electronic programming: 2 x 99 channels

Horizon VAC-100
Assembler
- 40 assembly stations
- Speed: 10 stations 4,000 cycles, 40 stations
- Minimum format: 5.875 in x 5.00 in; Maximum format: 13.75 in x 19.625 in

Horizon BQ-470
Binding without raised bands
- Minimum format: 5.4 in x 4.2 in; Maximum format: 12.5 in x 12.5 in; open cover: 26 in x 12.5 in

Horizon HT 30
3-face blade
- Speed: 200 cycles per hour
- Capacity: 2 in
- Minimum format: 5.83 in x 5.83 in; Maximum format: 12.6 in x 9.25 in

Crease Master Platinum
Groove - Perforation
- Speed: 60,000 linear inches/hour
- Minimum format: 4.75 in x 5 in; Maximum format: 17.25 in x 25.5 in

Mitamax
180-degree gluing

Case binding
- Case Making ODM
- Potdevin gluer

Stamping

Debossing

Prepress

Fuji Final Proof screened proofs
- Top-of-the-line proofs using the same frames and files as the plate imager

Color printers
- HP 1055, 36 in wide
- HP 5500, 42 in wide, two-sided
- Epson 9800, 44 in wide

Plate imaging
- CREO Trendsetter 800 Spectrum, 33 in x 45 in, aluminium plate imaging (CTP)

Digitizer
- Fuji High Resolution, C-550 Lanovia Sprint, 10,000 dpi Transparent, reflection and CopyDot

Computers - Macintosh G5, G4 computers and compatible PC desktops and 100 and 1,000 bt Ethernet network

Servers
- Rampage Remote
(Electronic approval system for your printing projects)
- Xinet server for native file management

Scanners
- All popular media

FTP
- Secure express access route for our file exchanges

Imposition
- Powerful imposition software for file processing and preparation for printing

Laminator
- Allows lamination of all hard proofs
(Final Proof)

Web-to-print
- Document manager
- Online purchase orders and bids
- Computerized inventory control
- Customization
- File transfer
- Online billing
- Customer space (Secure warehouse)

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