Inkjet & Digital Printing

Panda adds a Linoprint C751 to its digital line up

Thursday 24. January 2013 - Panda Print in Dunfermline has replaced one of its digital colour lines with a Heidelberg Linoprint C751. The company has sourced its litho machines from Heidelberg for some years and when it viewed the C751 it was convinced it was right for its market.

“It was the best option,” says Mark Wilson, production director. “It offered the quality for the type and volume of job we handle and was in the right price bracket. We run a number of Heidelberg litho machines and for us a real advantage will be that in the future we will be able to connect this machine to Prinect so prepress can allocate work quickly and easily to the best machine for the job.”
The choice between digital and litho is decided on a case by case basis, Panda Print’s estimators advising each client on the comparative costs and agreeing which route to take. It says that work above 1,000 A4 sheets would certainly go on a litho machine but sometimes the choice is more complex than simply run length.
“We get good service from Heidelberg and, to enable us to commission this press with least disruption, they installed it for us over the Christmas-New Year break so we are now up and running,” says Mark Wilson, a member of the family business.
Panda Print takes most of its work from within Scotland and it handles a very broad range of jobs for both business and consumer customers. The digital presses, which operate of a flexible day shift, handle a wide and varied range of work.