GBM Group, Manchester has bought a Screen Truepress Jet W3200UV HS high-speed flat-bed printer to boost its Manchester-based production facilities. The impact on its business has been immediate from the start.
“The Truepress Jet’s ability to deliver superb quality results using six-colours plus white at a blistering 150m2/hr has allowed us to offer our blue-chip retail and brand clients a very competitive and fast turnaround service,” says GBM Sales Director, Simon Higginbottom. “In the past we specialised in short-run jobs, but the Truepress Jet now gives us the ability to also handle medium-to-long run quality POS jobs to very tight deadlines.
“The retail sector refreshes POS displays more often than ever before and it’s not unusual for an order to come in at 3pm which is needed in-store the following day,” says Simon. “A recent job that would have taken us 4 days before we had the Truepress Jet, took only 4 hours! This one printer has tripled our capacity overnight and we have already won significant new business as a direct result.”
GBM specialises in producing display and POS graphics for the retail, exhibition and museum sectors, as well as digital wallpaper and fabric graphics. In addition to POS and display graphics printed onto materials such as Foamex, Dibond, E flute, Boards and PVC, the Truepress Jet’s versatility has led GBM to undertake some unusual work - including 10,600 beer mats printed in only 3 hours!
Before choosing the Truepress Jet W3200UV HS, GBM researched all similar printers currently available. “While we found some printers that could deliver identical quality, nothing came near to the productivity of the Truepress,” says Simon. The Truepress Jet W3200UV HS joins GBM’s existing Océ Arizona 350 XT and a 3.2m Vutek QS used primarily for roll-fed work.