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| Latest Irish News Since it was established in 1866, Cahill Printers Limited has always been in some way associated with the Dail, the Irish Parliament. The company, now based in the Clonshaugh Industrial Estate, D 13, has printed records of proceedings uninterrupted for every Dail since the foundation of the state in 1922. Recently Cahill also became the leading provider of Internet publishing services for the Dail as well. In recent times however, the company has somewhat struggled to keep abreast of the latest print technology in order to maintain its position as one of Irelands leading print providers. To address this issue, as well as production difficulties with short run colour work, Cahill Printers has just installed an iGen3 110, Free Flow Print Server. Kevin Kelleher, MD of Cahill Printers said that the company needed to migrate more of the company’s litho work to digital, given the quantity of short run business it had.  Cutaway of the new iGEN3 110 just installed at Cahill Printers. “We have an IBM digital web, five DocuTec 6180s, a DocuColor 2060 and a first generation Indigo printer. So we have a lot of fire power on the black and white end but the digital colour presses are a little bit outdated and can’t give us the quality we need to run in conjunction with our large litho capacity. The iGen3 110 on the other hand offers us superb quality at half the production price of the 2060.” Xerox and Cahill have a long history of working together over many years. The decision by Cahill to purchase the iGen3 was dictated by a number of factors that included speed, high quality colour reproduction particularly on heavy stock and the ability to print a sheet size larger than SRA3. “We do have a requirement for a bigger sheet than the Indigo could give us,” added Kelleher. “The iGen3 can give us that using the super-size tray which enables us to print up to 364x 371mm which we need for some technical documents and also for DVD sleeves and software wraps. A lot of short run cover work will now move to the new press as well as small booklets and brochures, typically in runs of 300 up to 500. Up to now these have been printed off-set because we could not get the desired quality from our other digital presses. Simply put, far too much short run colour work was litho printed which should have been digitally produced.” The iGen3 delivers 110 impressions per minute and can run from 60gsm all the way up to 350gsm at rated speed. A feature of the press is that it can also handle a diversity of material including textured stock, transparancies, labels and speciality media. Cahill Printers also purchased XMPIE uDirect from Xerox to improve and develop the company’s colour personalisation business. This software creates cross-media personalised marketing programmes that combine communications vehicles for the Web, digital printing, e-mail and other methods to reach customers with customised marketing materials. It can create for a client, marketing materials such as direct mailers, brochures, and catalogues with individual customer’s names, specific information and images, all based on that particular customer’s buying preference. “We have a large volume of work with banks and financial institutions,” continued Kelleher. “A lot of this work is personalisation which involves numbering and printing names and addresses. We do a lot of technical documentation for the IT sector and I suppose our other main markets in commercial print would be financial, educational, and health. We still continue to print for the Dail, however, although that has diminished over the years and has been replaced by publishing services.” Norman McNellis, Xerox’s iGen3 specialist commented, “Quality of print was a big issue here and the iGen3 offers a more litho print finish which was very important from Cahill’s perspective. The company also needed a digital printer with a high production volume capability so that it could transfer jobs from offset print over to digital. Cahill was printing too many jobs litho because the digital machines it had would not deliver the quality level required. We are absolutely delighted that Cahill decided to purchase the iGen3 110.” Company background In 1976, Cahill Printers became part of the Clondalkin Group which is an international converter of specialist packaging and print products with operations in Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. The Group manufactures and distributes products out of 34 locations, employing almost 4000 people and has an annual turnover in excess of €700 million. Contact: Cahill Printers Limited Contact: Xerox
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