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Plant List







We have heavily invested in some of the very best printing machinery available and this gives us great quality and flexibility.  

So for those of you who are interested in seeing what's behind the Bishops way of printing, we have listed our major equipment below.

If you would like to know more, please email your question to enquiries@bishops.co.uk

Office
Optimus 2020 QS computerised estimating, order processing, 
production and stock control system

Prepress
Screen CTP B2 plate-setters (for computer-to-plate output) x 2
Heidelberg Prinect Printready JDF workflow system
Apple macintosh G5's x 8 terminals
IBM compatible PC's x 4 terminals
CD/DVD writers x 8
100mb & 250Mb Zip drive x 1
Epson 7880 pro x 4
Hewlett Packard colour laser printer
FTP site with 20Gb of storage space


Press Room

2 x Heidelberg B2 Speedmaster XL75 Ten colour 5/5 perfector
Heidelberg B2 Speedmaster 74 CPTronic CPC Ten colour 5/5 perfector
Heidelberg B2 Speedmaster CD74 Ten colour 5/5 perfector  
Heidelberg B2 Speedmaster 74 CPTronic CPC Five colour 2/3 perfector
Heidelberg B2 Speedmaster 74 CPTronic CPC Five colour
Heidelberg B3 GTO 52 two colour

Finishing
Heidelberg ST 400 (A3)
Heidelberg ST 450 six-station stitcher
BOBST SP76-E B2 forme cutting and creasing service
Muller Martini eight station, gather, stitch and trim machine & cover feeder (A3)
Heidelberg TH82 round pile feeder folder 
Stahl T36 folder (pharmaceutical sizes) & cross fold
Stahl T66 folder (continuous feed) x 2
Stahl TP66 folder (continuous feed)
Heidelberg forme cutting and creasing cylinder
Polar programmatic guillotine x 4 with stack lifts (with transmat and jogger)
Autobond Compact 74T lamination machine
ADPAK EFK-250 shrink wrapping machine
Fidia capacity/non-capacity folder assembly machine
Longford CF100 mini card folder

Also equipment for:
Domino Numbering / Perforating / Drilling /Shrink wrapping /  Miscellaneous hand finishing

Despatch
Unmarked Ford Transit/Mercedes Sprinter vans with satellite navigation x 7
Fork lifts and other handling equipment

Security
CCTV-monitored office and factory

Recycling
Separation of ink, metal, paper, plastic and cardboard for recycling