Print On Cheadle moves up a gear

Print Solutions

Cheshire based Print On has moved to new premises and installed new wide format capabilities in the form of a Mimaki JFX200.

Print On has traditionally based much of its production capability around its four Xerox Versant digital printers, but became increasingly aware that the ability to offer a more diverse range of print services would be crucial to retaining existing customers and also developing new revenue streams. Managing director Alex Oldfield explained, ‘Some of our larger retail customers with whom we have really close relationships were placing their point of sale or other wide format print requirements with other printers. We really needed to equip ourselves to meet what seemed to be a growing demand in the sector. Investment in a Mimaki JFX200 flatbed and a brace of Mimaki JV300 production solvent printers sourced through our long standing relationship with Mimaki reseller Granthams of Preston, has really enabled us to stretch our legs and start producing a much wider range of products for our customers.’

The company’s wide format specialist Matt Peters can’t speak highly enough of his new charges as his experience of working with them expands. ‘I have previously worked with other wide format flatbeds which I had always felt to be perfectly adequate. But the more I use the Mimakis, the more impressed I am with their performance – the print quality and the speed just blows me away! We hardly ever need to use the highest quality setting on the JFX200, as even in fast production mode the quality is really quite exceptional. I am regularly printing 8’ x 4’ rigid boards with full ink coverage in around 20 minutes, at a highly acceptable print quality.’

As for the JV300s, Matt enthusiastically describes them as ‘real workhorses and ultra reliable’. These two machines have obviously been earning their keep at Print On as evidenced by the fact that under the ink cartridge recycling scheme operated by Mimaki’s UK and Ireland distributor, Hybrid Services, over 400 empty 440 ml solvent ink cartridges have been recycled in less than 12 months operation.