{"id":14329,"date":"2024-10-25T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T19:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/?p=14329"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:15:07","slug":"news-releasesg360-uses-sentinel-ipro-automated-ink-dispensing-to-manage-printing-of-colorful-direct-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/blog\/2024\/10\/25\/news-releasesg360-uses-sentinel-ipro-automated-ink-dispensing-to-manage-printing-of-colorful-direct-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"SG360\u00a0Uses Sentinel iPro Automated Ink Dispensing to Manage Printing of Colorful Direct Mail","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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SG360\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Uses Sentinel iPro Automated Ink Dispensing to Manage Printing of Colorful Direct Mail<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\r\n

Employing Sentinel automated ink dispensing cartridges on Komori sheetfed-offset presses since 2007, Chicago-area print firm hopes to \u2018bolt on\u2019 a fourth system in early \u201925.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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CARROLLTON, TX\u00a0 \u2013 October 28, 2024\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Sentinel, a global leader in automated ink management systems<\/span>, first delivered a Sentinel iPro to the\u00a0SG360<\/span><\/a>\u00b0 Wheeling, IL facility 17 years ago. Then known as Segerdahl Graphics, its first Sentinels came as standard equipment on the 40-inch (B1 format), six-color Komori Lithrone GL Series presses purchased in 2007 and \u201909. Ten years later, another Sentinel system came installed on a new eight-color addition to the 80,000 square-foot plant, which employs nearly 100 people running three shifts five days per week (Monday through Friday).<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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\u201cWe produce primarily direct-mail marketing as well as labels at our Gilman Avenue operation in Wheeling,\u201d says Prepress Manager Dave Bryczek, a 36-year printing industry veteran who joined SG360\u00b0 in 2014. Much of that direct mail work involves special coatings, he adds. Ranked among the top three direct mail producers in the United States, the company bills itself as a marketing agency. Earlier this year, wide-web capabilities, with full inline finishing, were added to its growing digital-print platform.<\/p>\r\n

On the offset side of the house, \u201cmaintaining a constant amount of ink in the fountain is one of Sentinel\u2019s major benefits,\u201d notes Bryczek. \u201cThe precise ink dispensing of the Sentinel iPro helps with color consistency and frees up press operators for other tasks.\u201d Sentinel iPro\u2019s ultrasonic sensor monitors the amount of ink in the fountain and auto-replaces it where needed. The system reduces: 1) run waste from overfilling, 2) ink spoilage and 3) skinning. \u201cWith the Sentinel, it\u2019s much less labor intensive to load the cannisters than to [manually] scoop out ink,\u201d he explains. \u201cWithout it, second pressmen and helpers would be troughing out ink almost non-stop.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

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Bryczek and his team like Sentinel iPro so much that they\u2019re planning on adding a fourth iPro system to a Komori Lithrone six-color press early next year. \u201cWe track the number of [ink] cannisters used, and we definitely are not wasting as much ink on our presses equipped with Sentinel. Reduced paper waste is another ROI (return on investment) factor. \u201cWhen running on the Sentinel presses, we get up to color quicker with fewer adjustments made,\u201d he points out.<\/p>\r\n

David Doucette, sales director for Sentinel Ink Management Systems, concludes: \u201cWe look forward to working again with\u00a0SG360\u00b0\u00a0<\/span>in 2025 and saving them even more money on consumables at their Gilman facility in northern Illinois.\u201d The Sentinel system has reduced waste disposal costs by as much as 85% for several printers.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":28,"featured_media":14332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329","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=14329"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15728,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329\/revisions\/15728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamarco.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}