Special Report | Hybrid Services The graphic is printed with white and clear inks
SEEING MACHINES THAT COMPANIES HAVE BUILT THEIR BUSINESSES ON BEING UPGRADED INTO THE LATEST TECH IS ALWAYS ENORMOUSLY SATISFYING. IT REALLY DOES MAKE IT WORTHWHILE TO SEE A COMPANY THAT’S GROWN WITH YOUR TECHNOLOGY
– Duncan Jefferies, head of marketing at Hybrid Services
The printer was successfully launched at the Hybrid sponsored lounge at the Crewe Alexander football club, which saw resellers gather for live demonstrations and a tour around the football club’s grounds.
Duncan added: “Over the last couple of years
At Hybrid, business is all about creating and maintaining long term relationships, ultimately to the benefit of everyone, including our customers.” Having a dedicated reseller network that includes
many well-known companies across the UK and Ireland, it’s easy to see why Hybrid and Mimaki are now ‘household’ names. Duncan emphasised that Hybrid’s relationship with its
resellers is mutually beneficial, underlining the strength and importance of its trusted partner network. Furthermore, seeing customers be a fervent
supporter of the brand, sometimes since their inception is very satisfying, Duncan commented. “Seeing machines that companies have built their businesses on being upgraded into the latest tech is always enormously satisfying. It really does make it worthwhile to see a company that’s grown with your technology.”
SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING DIFFERENT In the 20 years that Hybrid has been based in Crewe, the company has seen products evolve significantly. Duncan said: “We’ve seen products get faster,
bigger, easy to use, more productive, and cheaper to run. Mimaki’s byline is ‘something new, something different’ and innovation is absolutely in their DNA; it sits at the core of their business. “We see, year on year, quantum leaps in
performance, with new ranges in the last few years like the 200 Series and 330 Series sporting those same core values.”
The UJ330H-160 is Mimaki’s brand new hybrid UV inkjet printer, which has a newly developed conveyor belt transport system, which ensures stable feeding of various roll materials without wrinkling or sagging, including substrates such as thin window films, fabric, and synthetic leather, as well as rigid substrates like foam boards and acrylic sheets. Powered by Mimaki’s 330 print engine, the UJ330H-160 delivers high-definition output with smooth gradients, uniform solid fills and high-density white for impactful backlit and window graphics.
Mimaki has launched products across all its main sectors including new UV, solvent and textile models. “We recently had the UK and Ireland launch of the
new hybrid UV roll-toll flatbed printer, and products like the TS200 dye-sublimation machine which we showed at the recent Printwear & Promotion LIVE! exhibition and the UV DTF printer which is a new route for Mimaki.”
A PIECE OF HISTORY
One of Mimaki’s most revolutionary machines, the Tx-1600S was launched in 1998. Considered to be the first piezoelectric direct to textile wide-format printer, the Tx-1600S delivered a solution that revolutionised the printed textile industry even though it had a production speed of only 1m sq/hr.
It provided a solution for textile companies to sample their long production runs directly onto cloth, removing an expensive and time-consuming process.
Furthermore, it allowed designers to print short run fashion and furnishing fabrics to then deliver bespoke made-up goods such as scarves, apparel and cushions – a pioneering product that helped fuel the start of the digital textile printing industry.
Mimaki’s direct to textile Tx-1600S printer
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