German 96-page press pioneer Stark Druck is to install a second Goss Sunday 5000 press.

The first printer in Germany to install a 96-page web press system, Stark will have the second four-unit line, with a 2860 mm web width running in Pforzheim by the middle of next year.

It will have high-speed pinless combination and former folders, and an additional Goss former folder is to be supplied for the first Sunday 5000 press, which went into production early this year. Stark Druck also operates two Goss Sunday 4000 48-page short-grain presses.

“The performance of our existing Sunday presses, including the newest 96-page system, and the advantages they allow us to provide for our customers were the key factors in our decision to invest in a second Sunday 5000,” says Stark managing director Reiner Wormitt. “Goss shares our vision for creating new opportunities through innovative, high-pagination presses and have stood behind that vision with their ability to execute and support these installations.”

Goss installed the world’s first 2860 mm wide press in 2009, and claims to be the only supplier with presses of this type in full daily production. Three Sunday 5000 presses have now been installed.

Both of Stark’s Sunday 5000s are specified with fully automatic plate changing technology and Goss DigiRail digital inking system. The new press will have a Contiweb FD paster, Ecoset dryer and Goss Web Center automated workflow and control system. The PCF-3 combination and PFF-3 former folders are both designed to run at up to 100,000 copies per hour.

Features and ribbon configuration of the PFF-3 folders at Stark Druck are unique in Europe, and will enable the company to offer specific products and very high copy output in low page count magazine format with very short makereadies to its customers.

“Stark Druck continues to exemplify the competitive benefits of innovative wide-web technology,” says Jochen Meissner, Goss International president and chief executive. “We are proud of how we have worked together with their team to achieve long-grain and short-grain Goss Sunday systems that are among the most productive and efficient printing presses in the world, and we are grateful for this new opportunity to extend our relationship with the fourth Goss Sunday press at their facility.

The Stark Druck group provides digital, sheetfed and web offset printing as well as prepress, finishing, distribution, multimedia and intranet services.