LF Printing: Dye-Sublimation and Textiles
Driven by relentless determination, the rugged Tauro takes on any print job at The Delta Group
T he Delta Group was
established 32 years ago and now employs 680 people. They create engaging visual communications for many of the UK’s leading brands in Retail, Out of Home, Events, Entertainment, Drinks and Health & Beauty. Over 75% of their £100m turnover is from Print for display and they are on a continual improvement and sustainability drive with a plan to achieve net zero status. One of the largest printers of POS and display graphics in the UK, The Delta Group, has invested £1.2 million in the purchase of two Agfa wide-format print engines. A Tauro H3300 HS LED has been installed in their Biggin Hill facility and the Tauro
H3300 UHS LED, as pictured, at their main 180,000 sq ft site in Waltham Cross.
The group includes Delta Creative, Delta Display and they have acquired subsidiary businesses over the years to add strength in specialist areas. They began trading in Birmingham, moved in 1998 to London E17 and they now have their main site of 180,000 sq ft., in Waltham Cross. Delta Display may have started in silk screen printing, but it now has an arsenal of Litho, silk screen and digital presses and was an early adopter of large format printing.
Speaking with the COO of Delta Display, Martin Shipp, he tells us, “The two new machines are Delta’s first move into high-speed, hybrid digital inkjet presses, both come with the ability to print on rigid and flexible
media. According to Martin Shipp, who has been with the business for 25 years and during that time has purchased over 100 print devices, says “The Agfa investment offers the business increased flexibility and agility, a pre-requisite today in satisfying their customer requirements.”
Asking Martin about the importance of establishing a relationship with your supplier, he tells us, “Our relationship with Agfa was historically on Litho plates and more recently after they acquired Inca, with the changeover to Agfa inks on our Inca machine. Agfa printers have a great engineering heritage, but when they acquired Inca it also enabled them to offer a host of different print solutions at various price points. We have known James Argent from Agfa for many years and have a
With its versatile configurations, this sturdy beast unleashes fierce performance, allowing you to experience rugged reliability and charge ahead with primal force
| 40 | May-June 2024
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