Offset Printing
Evon Print Adds ten-colour for further efficiency
Wednesday 20. May 2009 - A West Sussex printer will this month fire up its third B2 long perfector, its investment in a new Speedmaster XL 75-10-P spurred by a commitment to production and cost efficiency.
“We are replacing a six year old SM 74-5 to take advantage of the benefits that long perfecting brings,” says managing director Steve Rowland. “It will increase our speed of turnround and flexibility without increasing our staff overheads. This spend is primarily about working even better and more cost competitively for our customers. That will secure our strong position in a tough market. The additional capacity is a bonus but not the prime reason for this spend.”
The Small Dole company already has ten- and eight-colour SM 74 technology but the XL 75 will handle higher weight stocks, slightly larger format work and enable the company to offer seals or special colours in line, optimising turnround times and keeping costs to a minimum. The eight-colour installed in 2006 was specifically for the number of local community publications it handles, many on gloss stocks, which didnt require seals. The new press will mop up the additional work.
Evonprint generates a broad range of magazine and general commercial work, half generated from London and half from the Home Counties. It has a particular niche with government bodies, institutions, trade organisations, museums and galleries – clients which expose the company to least bad debt risk.
The company has two platesetters, capacity enough to keep the additional units fed on a 24 hour, five day a week basis.