PressOn has taken delivery of an EFI Vutek QS2 Pro 3.2m wide-format flatbed/roll-fed UV-curable printer.
The company said it has seen growth in its large-format digital printing business in the past 24 months, and exceptional growth in particular over the past 12 months. As a result it has invested in various new equipment over the last year, including a Kongsberg XPi 24 digital cutter in August 2012 and a Supracoater 1600 liquid laminator in December 2012.
The Vutek QS2 Pro is expected to help the company satisfy increased demand for the highest quality, fast turnaround graphics and display materials.
Joint founding MD of PressOn, Andy Wilson, said of the new printer: “Our customers have always insisted upon high quality print from us, but the demand for the absolute best image quality has become more and more evident. To continue to satisfy customers in this higher premium market we needed a machine that was flexible and could print on any substrate, even on heavily textured materials. With the tight deadlines our customers need, high production speeds were extremely important too.”
The Vutek QS2 Pro, supplied by distributor CMYUK, was chosen after much research by PressOn. The machine’s in-line multi-layer print capability and greyscale technology with variable droplets was particularly liked, and provides a solution to the increasing challenging project requirements PressOn is receiving, such as printing pure white ink on coloured substrates. The machine will be linked through to PressOn’s existing GMG Colour Management software, to ensure colour critical print remains accurate from one off jobs through to multiple items of printed media on different substrates.
PressOn joint MD Nigel Webster added: “The Vutek QS2 Pro will perfectly complement our high quality print offering at PressOn. Our retail customers will love the quality and flexibility it will offer, enabling us to print straight to wood, board and even aluminium. It will also help us with the very creative bespoke work we are seeing more frequently from the fast moving retail display market.”
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