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• First Linoprint CV installed in United Kingdom
• High productivity and additional functions increase readiness to invest
• Linoprint CV offers five colours for greater flexibility in short-run printing
The team from printing company Diguru in the UK is using the new Linoprint CV digital printing system from Heidelberg to help it grow
Diguru is a commercial printing company based in Hampshire in the United Kingdom and the first British user of the new Linoprint CV digital printing system from Heidelberg. It specialises in business with advertising agencies and end users and is committed to producing high-quality print products as sustainably as possible. The company has only been on the market since 2010 and currently has a workforce of nine. Since it was founded, Diguru has succeeded in increasing its sales from £400,000 to some £1 million, in particular thanks to the growth in digital printing operations.
To satisfy increasing demand and respond to the trend towards higher-quality digital print products, Diguru decided on the Linoprint CV from Heidelberg, which has only recently been launched.
‘Ultimately, there were three reasons for choosing the Linoprint CV - its high productivity, the flexibility offered by a fifth colour either to print white or apply a coating, and the excellent price-performance ratio,’ said Diguru's managing director Richard Harwood in explaining his investment decision.
Diguru intends to use the new system's surface finishing options above all to boost its business with advertising agencies. The company is gearing all its efforts towards further growth and is planning other additions to the portfolio, such as 3D printing.
Linoprint CV and Linoprint CP - greater flexibility
thanks to new functions for higher productivity when printing short and/or personalised runs
Heidelberg launched the new Linoprint CV and Linoprint CP digital printing systems at the end of 2014 to replace the Linoprint C 751 and Linoprint C 901 models, around 500 of which had been installed worldwide up to that point.
With a printing speed of 90 pages per minute, high quality standards, and comprehensive functions, the new Linoprint CV sets new standards in its performance class. The system will be able to print with five colours, making it unique in its segment. Besides the four primary colours, the system also offers white as an additional colour for higher opacity or, alternatively, a coating with high-gloss properties. Users can choose from a huge variety of substrates, ranging from textured and coloured papers to synthetic films and highly coated materials.
The new Linoprint CP produces advertising and presentation materials at a printing speed of 130 pages per minute, as well as high-quality brochures, personalized print products, and professionally bound books. The inline finishing units offer a whole host of solutions - from high-capacity stacking, perforating, and folding all the way through to leaflets and books with adhesive binding. The Linoprint CP can also be used to process a range of materials, some of which can be quite challenging, such as textured papers and plastics. Both presses have the ability to produce a sheet size of 700mm x 330mm for A4 landscape and six page A4 printing.
The Prinect digital front end newly developed by Heidelberg supports the seamless integration of both new digital printing systems into the overall workflow of a print shop. This means that all print jobs can be centrally managed in one workflow system, irrespective of the production process selected.
‘Short runs of increasingly high quality and additional surface finishes are all the rage. Print shops need to be able to provide their customers with the solutions they need while also turning a profit. Our new Linoprint systems offer users exceptional flexibility, productivity, and quality,’ said Jason Oliver, head of Digital Printing at Heidelberg.
More about Diguru can be found at; www.diguru-uk.com.
© Graphic Repro On-line, 23 March 2015.
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