A new 96-page manroland Lithoman for Dutch printer Em de Jong will have folders for both long and short-grain production.

The press will go into production in Baarle-Nassau early next year, replacing four 16-page webs.

Em De Jong - which owns Janssen/Pers and Kampert-Nauta in the Netherlands and Mercator Press in Belgium - already has an 80-page Lithoman in its Baarle-Nassau heatset fleet of eight presses.

Managing director Stijn de Jong says the "ultimate efficiency" is needed to produce more and more in ever smaller timeframes. "It's hard to believe that, until 2005, we were printing everything on 16-page presses.," he says.

The new 96-page press will produce nearly five million A4 pages per hour with a web width of 2860 mm and eight ribbons. It will have the maker's inline systems for cut-off and colour register, as well as fan-out control, as well as APL auto plate loading.