UK large-format POS specialist Best Digital has boosted production capacity by 50% after buying a Screen Truepress Jet W3200UV HS wide-format flatbed printer. The new machine, part-funded with a £50,000 grant from the UK’s Regional Growth Fund, features CMYK plus light cyan and light magenta and two opaque white ink channels.
It joins a Screen Truepress Jet 2500UV hybrid wide-format printer at Best’s Welwyn Garden City plant and replaces a Screen Truepress Jet W1632UV.
Founded in 2008 by joint managing directors Geoff Rawlings and Danny Colegate, Best produces POS, exhibition and display graphics for retailers, agencies, brand owners and print management companies. The company employs 12 people, is on target for sales of just under £2 million this year and has a reputation for producing high-quality work at the right price and on time, backed by a full design-to-print-to-installation support package.
Rawlings said a quest for higher productivity while maintaining substrate flexibility and quality lies behind the investment in the Truepress Jet W3200UV HS. “The Truepress Jet W1632UV has been superb, but we needed a faster machine to keep up with demand - which is why we went for the HS specification. Compared to the Truepress Jet W1632UV’s 94m2/hr we can run the Truepress Jet W3200UV HS at 150m2/hr and achieve excellent quality. It’s also going to help us increase our presence in new markets - the white ink capability, for example, delivers perfect back-up white for printing on coloured and transparent materials. It’s also proving remarkably flexible across a wide range of work, from small-format packaging to large-format wall panels.”
Rawlings added that pairing the new printer with the existing Truepress Jet 2500UV preserves the benefits Best gets from having two machines that use the same proprietary Screen Truepress inks, including being able to guarantee consistent colour across both