Glossop Cartons is the first company in the UK to buy a Fujifilm Acuity LED 1600 UV LED inkjet printer.
Director, Jacky Sidebottom, said: “We work with brand owners who in turn supply large high street retailers who demand accurate printed samples of their end products. We have to submit high quality prototypes to ensure that what they see is truly what they will get. Producing prototypes pre-press is both expensive and time consuming, so when we came across Fujifilm’s Acuity LED 1600 at Drupa, we immediately recognised that it would allow us to become more competitive.”
Established 30 years ago, Glossop Cartons is an SME with a solid reputation in quality litho printed cartons, wallets, blister cards, skin pack cards and packaging for the promotional, cosmetics, car accessories and luxury food business areas.
Sidebottom added: “There is an increasing demand for short run and bespoke packaging, and digital technology perfectly suits this requirement. Fujifilm’s Acuity LED 1600 fills a gap in the market through its ability to produce outstanding prototypes in an effective way. Thanks to the Acuity LED 1600 we can now print, and subsequently cut out, a diverse range of substrates quickly and efficiently, and also create packaging solutions distinguished by special varnishing effects. The use of this technology improves our turnaround time and removes the traditional costs of litho print and die-cutting, both of which are costly for short proof print runs.
“Fujifilm’s Acuity LED 1600 has enabled us to take our first steps into digital packaging and smoothly integrate it within our conventional production environment.”