Manchester Print Services has installed a Blackman and White VersaTech cutter/router to help cope with its growing demand for wide-format print.
Director Lee Egan said of the investment: “We have a range of printers that can cope with materials up to 3.2m wide, but our cutting machine could only cope with materials up to 1.6m, so larger jobs had to be hand finished. The demand for wider printing is growing and we are now printing onto a range of card, fabric and Dibond aluminium composites so we needed a multi-functional finishing machine that could cope with different materials in widths up to 3.2m.”
The VersaTech has a nominal cutting area of 3.2m2 but, as the cutting bed is conveyorised with a roller feed, it can accommodate very much longer lengths of fabric. The system incorporates a computer controlled multi-tool head so both blade and laser cutters or a router can be used on a single machine. The laser cutting unit can be interchanged for a 2.5 KW water cooled router which is capable of running at 60,000.
