Mitsubishi showed the Cito RSP for the first time at its open house in Leeds this week, where it also claimed another first by showing a JDF-connected bindery as part of a totally integrated factory.
Cito and Mitsubishi demonstrated the fruits of the new worldwide agreement at Mitsubishi's UK open house on a Diamond 1000LS-6 six-colour B2 press (pictured) with coater.
"I'm convinced it [the Cito RSP] adds a lot of value, especially for smaller printers," said MLP UK managing director Thomas Doliwa. "We've already had customers asking for it. We ordered 10 systems and I think it's likely we'll have sold out after the open house."
The RSP is initially available for B2 Mitsubishis with a B1 version following soon.
Also at the open house was a demonstration of JDF extending into the bindery. In conjunction with Graphic Arts equipment, it showed a bindery with a mix of Horizon and Perfecta kit being fed JDF data from a Tharstern MIS. The MIS was feeding data to Horizon's i2i interface, which was controlling a folder, perfect binder, saddlestitcher, and three-knife trimmer.
Mitsubishi JDF links
- Tharstern MIS
- Screen Trueflow workflow
- Horizon i2i bindery network interface
Mitsubishi shows Cito RSP and JDF bindery
Cito has expanded the range of presses that its RSP inline cutting, perforating and creasing cylinder can work on to include Mitsubishi sheet-fed machines.
