FAQ:

Which machinery is used by Dessain?
Dessain prints on 16 page web presses of the newest series made by MAN. The German press builders MAN stand for top quality and reliability. Their machines are referred to as the Mercedes Benz of the printing trade and are equipped with the most recent technology to produce the best possible result.

Web printing (or web fed printing, heatset printing or rotary printing) is, as with sheet fed printing, an offset process. Instead of feeding cut sheets into the machine the web printing press is fed with a reel of paper weighing up to 1,400 kg.

A web press prints both sides of the paper simultaneously and prints up to 5 times faster than a sheet fed machine, at speeds up to15 meters of paper per second. This is the equivalent of 70.000 copies of a 16 page brochure, 140.000 copies of 8 pages or 280.000 copies of  a 4 page folder.

The process is called heat set printing because the ink is dried inline in an oven right after it has been printed. The folding unit is part of the press and as such the folding is done inline as well.

On Dessain’s presses the paper weight can range from 39gsm right up to 150 gsm, even allowing Dessain to be very competitive with sheet fed printers on some jobs. Bigger web presses (32, 48, 64, 72 pages) are much more limited in possible paper weights.