{"id":14021,"date":"2024-06-26T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/?p=14021"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:15:07","slug":"verdant-graphics-enhances-overall-print-quality-with-sentinel-ink-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/blog\/2024\/06\/26\/verdant-graphics-enhances-overall-print-quality-with-sentinel-ink-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdant Graphics Enhances Overall Print Quality with Sentinel Ink Management System","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
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CARROLLTON, TX\u00a0 \u2013 June 19, 2024\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Sentinel, a global leader in automated ink management systems<\/span>, last year delivered a Sentinel iPro to\u00a0Verdant Graphics<\/span><\/a>. Verdant Graphics employs 15 people full-time who presently run a single shift at its 15,000-square-foot plant in the city of Grand Rapids, MI, situated some 30 miles east of Lake Michigan. Now expanded to a general commercial shop, Verdant has 13-year roots planted as an in-plant shop primarily producing greeting cards for wholesaler Design Design. As the new press has been able to print higher volumes much more quickly, controlling output quality is of paramount importance.<\/p>\n

Using cartridges, the Sentinel system \u201cfacilitates even [ink] flow and consistency,\u201d notes Don Kallil, Verdant\u2019s owner and chief vision officer. \u201cThe ink-management solution really helps to keep our quality equal throughout the course of a run \u2013 the job at the end has to be as good as the job at the start.\u201d The net result, he adds, is that certain sections of the form are drawing ink at various levels and in different amounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cSentinel iPro is the leading cartridge-based ink dispensing system for offset presses,\u201d states\u00a0Dave Doucette, Director of Sales, Sentinel Ink Systems.<\/span>\u00a0\u201ciPro\u2019s electronic eye monitors the amount of ink in the fountain, and automatically replaces it just where it is needed.\u00a0 This allows printers to reduce run waste from overfilling, ink spoilage and skinning, allows faster color changes, and by maintaining a consistent level of ink it eliminates color variation during the print run.\u201d The ink-management system is installed on the firm\u2019s RMGT 920, an eight-color, sheetfed-offset perfecting press featuring LED-UV technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Beyond the ink density factor, there is labor reduction with Sentinel, too. \u201cWith the size of this press, there are eight large [ink] wells,\u201d says Kallil, adding that his previous printing technology was on a smaller scale: a quarter-size (14\u00d720-inch) digital press. \u201cThere\u2019s no manual adjusting, so we don\u2019t have to hire someone to stand up on those printing units. With iPro, the inking process is all automated from the press console,\u201d he points out, \u201cand the operator doesn\u2019t have to worry about ink levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The word\u00a0verdant<\/i>\u00a0means \u201cvibrantly green with grass and rich vegetation,\u201d and the sustainability angle is not lost on Verdant\u2019s leader. \u201cWe are printing more while using and wasting less ink in the process. That\u2019s important to our world,\u201d Kallil believes.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Sentinel iPro<\/strong>\u00a0system from Pamarco is easy to cost-justify, he concludes, \u201cbecause ink is flowing at the proper levels, where it needs to be. Our overall efficiency is better.\u201d With the new press and inking technology in place, Verdant has the capacity for growth. Kallil and his team already have hired one salesperson and are set to hire two more. \u201cWe\u2019d like to be running two shifts by the end of 2024,\u201d he reports. \u201cOur eventual goal is to be a three-shift operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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CARROLLTON, TX\u00a0 \u2013 June 19, 2024\u00a0\u2013 Sentinel, a global leader in automated ink management systems, last year delivered a Sentinel iPro to\u00a0Verdant Graphics. Verdant Graphics employs 15 people full-time who presently run a single shift at its 15,000-square-foot plant in the city of Grand Rapids, MI, situated some 30 miles east of Lake Michigan. Now…<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":28,"featured_media":15407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[319],"class_list":["post-14021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-homepage-feature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14021"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15404,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021\/revisions\/15404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}