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Roland’s new Creative Centre opens the doors to new ideas and opportunities


Designed to provide an exciting yet practical demonstration suite for new and existing customers, Roland DG (UK) has opened its innovative Creative Centre as its UK head-quarters in Somerset. Located just minutes off the M5 at Clevedon, this new facility has been planned to show all of the company’s solutions in a walk-through lay-out, with its families of machines complemented by comprehensive production examples from each system. The Roland Creative Centre is rich in the types and varieties of


application which can be produced using its equipment, including full-colour wide-format printers, high quality vinyl cutting, routing and engraving. These examples of output show how the company’s systems can generate productive and unusual solutions, demonstrating how even modest investments can be used to create profitable, eye-catching work on all types of material.


The layout of the new


Creative Centre enables visitors to view the production processes, from start to finish, showing initial designs being processed before being passed to the output device. Full-colour jobs can be seen generated with Roland’s VersaWorks RIP before being sent to one of the company’s printers, and the same artwork can be used to demonstrate how the different ink technologies can be used for high quality and unusual results. Unlike most showrooms, the purpose of the Creative Centre is to emulate a true production environment so that visitors can see how Roland’s machines work in day-to-day situations. Visitors can also compare solutions to assess which suits them best with experts always on-hand to discuss creative opportunities and how they can be generated using the best combinations of machine and material. The Creative Centre takes visitors


through all the different processes on offer from Roland, and how results can be created quickly and easily. The solutions demonstrated include photo impact engravers and production options for rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, precision milling and engraving. These are complemented by the company’s renowned families of vinyl cutters, and the latest generation of wide-format ink-jet systems including print-and-cut automation, featuring solvent-based metallic and white inks and UV-curable options, again with white ink, plus clear varnish. For further information telephone


Roland ContraVision window graphic. 0845 230 90 60 or visit www.rolanddg.co.uk


Roland DG appoints PFE to increase commercial sector presence in Ireland


Marking the increase in popularity of wide-format ink-jet production within the commercial print sector in Ireland, Roland DG (UK) has announced the appointment of Print and Finishing Equipment as its distributor. This agreement sees the leading Dublin based supplier bring on board complementary digital solutions to boost its current portfolio. Formed more than 25 years ago, originally to service the


demand for in-house print finishing equipment, PFE has grown significantly to encompass digital as well as analogue solutions. The addition of the Roland SolJet Pro III range and the VersaUV LEC-330 and LEC-540 will enable the company to extend into wide-format with two important product families that embrace the needs of today’s offset litho and flexo sectors. Duncan Groom, Managing Director of Print Finishing and


Equipment, comments: “We’re very excited about this agreement with Roland DG, as we see it bringing huge opportunities to us within the wide-format market. Having investigated all the options currently available within the ink-jet sector, Roland’s solutions are exactly the right products for the commercial print sector and that’s why we were so eager to form a relationship with the company. “The SolJet Pro III XC-540 and the VersaUV are the most versatile


systems on the market today and, with a customer base that wants to do everything on a wide-format machine, these two models tick all the boxes,” continues Groom. “PFE has a high reputation for supplying high quality print finishing equipment and we believe that Roland’s machines are exactly the right products for our market.” For further information on Roland products visit the website www.rolanddg.co.uk or telephone 0845 230 90 60.


74 Sign Update ISSUE 126 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011


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