Gidue donates flexo press unit to graphic school

Gidue has donated a new flexo press to the Graphic School of San Zeno, Verona, Italy.

The school has ambitious plans to become the leading education institution for the print industry in Italy, and has already installed a whole production line of digital polymers – CDI by EskoArtwork and Cyrel Fast by DuPont – and a new 5-color flexible packaging printing machine from Uteco.

In order to support this ambition, Federico d'Annunzio, president of Gidue, and Tiziano Zanotti, director of the Graphic School in Verona, have recently signed a joint agreement, aimed at supporting the project development and the educational activities of the school.

The press is a 370mm-wide, 4-color Quadra machine for the production of self-adhesive labels with UV inks. The press is equipped with a UV system by IST Metz named MBS Minicure.

The agreement also includes other activities to be performed in the following months, such as:

• Training of Gidue’s technical and printing team, carried out by the teachers of the school and focused on the technological aspects of offset, gravure and flexo printing processes

• Identification of two students, demonstrating high level printing skills, to support Gidue technicians during the live demonstrations to take place during the international exhibition drupa 2008

• Identification of two graduates who will be offered a six-month contract at Gidue, during which they will support the company as printing technicians

• The printing department of the school will act as a demo center for Gidue customers

• The school will support Gidue in the research and development of new technical solutions and in the testing of new materials

• Technical training to Gidue customers who are approaching the printing processes or need advanced training sessions