Rocket Graphics expands site and kit line-up

Rocket Graphics has expanded its Watford-based facilities, adding 557m2 (30%) of print production space that houses a new 3.2m Vutek LX3 UV hybrid printer - a machine with speeds up to 60% faster than its predecessor. The new space is also home to a Zund G3 3.2m-wide cutter, which has been added to a current 2.2m-wide unit.

"Both machines were critical in helping us to deliver and install wall graphics measuring more than more than 3000m in just 10 days for golf’s Ryder Cup, for which both colour quality and speed were of the essence," explained Rocket Graphics’ sales director Antony Rider. The company also recently bolstered its existing bank of five Mimaki printers with a UV LED-curing JV300 1600mm-wide machine with the aim of streamlining the linear throughput production process across the full range of printer options. Other machines include an EFI Vutek GS5000r and 3.2m M-Tex dye-sub unit.   The investment at the Croxley Business Park site also creates extra office space for Rocket’s growing project management team, and part of the new area will be used in a multi-functional way - eg for vehicle wrapping, collating or partly pre-building modular graphic framing systems and lightboxes etc.   “It’s important that, as deadlines shorten and client expectations climb ever higher, we have the staff, mechanical resources and technology to respond proactively, and improve what we offer to both existing and new clients,” added Rider.