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Growth sees Kingswood iOptus invest in EFI printers
Kingswood iOptus bought an EFI™ VUTEk® GS3250lx Pro LED superwide-for- mat printer, and an EFI H1625 LED wide- format printer, after much research on available LED inkjet graphics production technologies. Each complements the other in terms of output quality and hybrid roll/flatbed capabilities, giving the company the ability to produce a broader range of graphics applications.
Robert Long, the company's managing di- rector who was looking to expand their serv- ices, investigated the most versatile and reliable machines for his business. During last year's Drupa tradeshow, Robert and his team decided that the EFI printers could uniquely meet the company's needs in terms of reliability, speed and quality.
Going green with LED Kingswood iOptus was already using a se- lection of wide-format printers to handle basic roll-to-roll production. But they wanted to increase output potential by investing in more-robust technology for exterior and in- terior graphics applications. They realised that LED inkjet represented the most suit- able future proof and environmentally aware investment.
The printers, which can print on rigid substrates up to 5 cm thick, increase Kingswood iOptus's versatility. Having both a wide-format and larger superwide-format printer, gives them more flexibility in sched- uling work with minimal downtime.
Full-scale 'cool cure' LED productivity The new VUTEk printer is a fully loaded pro- duction device that gives users the ability to offer more applications, and produce them fast and efficiently, says the company. The 3.2-metre hybrid printer delivers “stunning” point-of-purchase graphics, due image res-
olutions up to 1,000 dpi and 12-picolitre greyscale technology. It features eight- colour plus multi-layer white print capabili- ties and can print up to 223 square metres (or up to 60 1.2x2.4-metre boards) per hour in five colours.
The EFI H1625 LED printer is a mid-level, 1.6-metre hybrid production device that prints in eight-level greyscale with four colours plus white, on a range of flexible and rigid substrates. It produces high-qual- ity images in resolutions up to 1200x600 dpi. It runs at speeds up to 42.3 square me- tres per hour and, like Kingswood iOptus's VUTEk printer, it offers the advantage of multi-layer white printing.
Both printers also feature production-speed, energy-efficient "cool cure" LED imaging, which cures inks at significantly lower temperatures compared with UV or latex inkjet devices. That translates into lower
The EFI H1625 LED wide-format printer.
running costs because of reduced energy usage. The printers' instant on/off LED curing lamps also last longer than UV-curing lamps, giving users “increased uptime and productivity, lower consumables costs, and consistent curing for fewer wasted prints”.
"Since starting the company more than two decades ago in the legal sector, our busi- ness has flourished to encompass all types of digital print for an increasingly diverse customer base," says Robert. "The days have long gone when clients were prepared to use different print providers for their or- ders. The fact that we can offer, from a sin- gle source, enormous diversity across all production needs has been instrumental in the 400 per cent growth, which we have achieved in the past three years."
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EFI™ VUTEk® GS3250lx Pro LED superwide-format printer. 34 Sign Update ISSUE 169 FEBRUARY 2017
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