Leicester-based Phoenix Colour has bought an Océ Arizona 360 GT and Zund G3 L2500 cutting system to allow it to diversify. “The £250,000 investment, which will have paid for itself within three years, has given me a new lease in printing and has already brought more business to the company,” said owner Peter Davis, adding: “Government funding helped reduce the price by £25,000.”
New business is growing rapidly and approximately 25% of work previously done on other printers and mounted manually to substrate has already been transferred to the Arizona. New applications include boxes printed and cut for bespoke promotional products such as game boards. As another example, Kitchen companies require display boards for international business shows and others require print samples direct on to wood.
Another benefit is that 75% of die-cutting work previously outsourced is now done in-house at Phoenix Colour.
“The reason for buying Océ and Zund systems was based purely on quality against the competition,” said Davis. “It’s been so successful that I am now having a big sales drive in the POS (market and expect to grow my business in that area by 25% in the next year alone.”