Speedscreen buys Zund G3 3XL1600 to reduce finishing bottleneck
Following the installation of a Durst Rho 320 in May, Speedscreen of Kent has bought a Zund G3 3XL1600 to reduce the finishing bottleneck created by the new printer.
Tim Hill, Speedscreen managing director, said: “We’re delighted with the new Durst engine and knew that the speed of the machine once in full play would naturally produce bottlenecks in the finishing department. That’s why we started looking at digital flatbed cutters and we settled on the Zund G3 XL1600 with the extra tables so we can print and finish 3.2m by any length imaginable really, depending on the substrate.”
Speedscreen’s Zund G3 3XL1600 includes a tooling selection that comprises a routing module for 3D signs and textured surfaces and lettering, a pneumatic oscillating knife with creasing/v-cutting tools for cardboard engineering plus the driven rotary tool and kiss cutting tools for textile and vinyl.
To demonstrate just what a difference the Zund G3 made at Screenprint it points to a recent project called ‘Hard Rain’, a mobile exhibition of photographic work by Mark Edwards in Kew that opened in May. The banner work was originally put through a solvent printer and cut by hand which took up to one week to print and hand-cut the 50m in length needed for the exhibition.
When on a visit to Speedscreen in early May, Edwards saw the quality coming off the Durst, he asked for the job to be printed using this printer instead; the quality was so much better. Speedscreen then printed the entire job on the Durst 320 and finished it on the G3 XL1600 using the conveyor facility - the whole job took just under a day.