Durst Rho 1000L goes to Probo/Sign
Dutch company Probo/Sign has bought a Durst Rho 1000L, the second Durst printer in a year for this fast growing company of owner Erwin Postma. The printer was delivered to Probo/Sign directly from Fespa Digital in Hamburg where the Durst Rho 1000L made its debut.
Probo/Sign works for resellers like sign makers, exhibition builders and ad agents. In 2001 Erwin Postma took over Probo/Sign. It was then a small sign shop in Dokkum in the northern area of the Netherlands with just two employees. Now the company has over 40 employees and takes more than 100 print orders a day.
In 2001 Postma invested in his first large-format solvent printer. In 2003 he bought a hybrid UV printer. The decision a year ago to equip the Rho 500R with white ink proved proved a good one. This investment provided a significant growth in 2010.
When the moment came to replace the hybrid UV printer white ink was on the wish list. One of the applications for the Rho 1000L will be to produce backlit prints directly on transparent PET plates using three layers of ink (CMYK, white, CMYK).
Postma said: “With the Rho 1000L we can take over jobs that are currently still printed in offset. With the Durst Rho 1000L we can offer our customers the right price and speed needed for this kind of applications that mostly run from 100 to 400 copies.”