Shining a light on Northern Print

Print Solutions

Merseyside based Northern Print has expanded its fleet of EFI Vutek printers with a new HS100Pro from wide format print specialists CMYUK.

The printer was needed thanks to an ever increasing demand for wide format digital print from both existing and new clients.

Director Richard Parker explained, ‘We needed to make this investment so we could guarantee the capacity needed when we took on extra work. We were already running at full tilt, and had to have a reliable machine to help smooth out the peaks in demand without compromising our existing work.

‘As well as giving us the extra capacity that we needed, the HS100Pro offers an incredible flexibility on substrates, and we can use it for sheets, boards, rolls, back lit panels, and a whole range of indoor and outdoor point of sale, both single and double sided. Basically, with our Vutek printers and our litho arm, we can handle pretty much any print request that comes our way.’

Richard originally set up Northern Print as a print management company in 2000. He says that this changed quickly, as ‘it just didn't sit right, being a print distributor rather than a manufacturer’.

He added, ‘ I have bought Vuteks for the last nine years and to be honest I wouldn't really consider anything else. With the EFI badge I know that we are going to get speed and reliability, and the ability to handle a wide range of substrates. Being able to print white at the same time is also hugely beneficial.

‘We have a great relationship with both EFI and CMYUK, and act as both a beta site and demo site for other prospective customers.

‘The service response if we need it from both companies is also phenomenal. For example, we once had a printer go down at 4.30 pm on a Friday – it was back up and running with new parts flown in from US and Europe by the Saturday morning!’