Full service Sydney printer steps up for its 5th flatbed machine, with another to come from the Swiss company after seeing it operate at FESPA.
The normally private Clarke Murphy Print opened its signage division facility to allow Phil Trumble’s Pozitive, the local swissQprint agent, to host an open house where it could showcase the latest Nyala 3S to a select group of customers. The fastest flatbed ever to come from the highly regarded manufacturer was put through its paces by Adriano Gut, product manager, who made the trip from Switzerland.
The Nyala 3S (the S stands for speed) is a single pass CMYK production unit with a top speed of 370 M2 in billboard mode on the 3.2 x 2 meter flatbed. The highly engineered machine has tandem print mode and an endless vacuum that eliminates masking on the table. According to Gut, who is well known to the local industry from his time with Pozitive, it’s very energy efficient – one hour's operation uses the same power it takes to boil two kettles of water.
Already up and running at CMP over long shifts, six days a week, the Nyala 3S produced a number of jobs in different speed modes during the demonstration, including four different sheet jobs, front and rear with zero down time. Trumble made the point that although jobs are often printed on large sheets, most are cut down to poster size. The endless vacuum makes sheetfed printing just as productive as roll to roll.
swissQprint regards the new generation Nyala as a radically changed model even though it looks the same as those that came before. It has LED curing and a completely new wiring system for its electronics.
“The Nyala 3S prints in a completely new way for us. We always focused on delivering the very highest quality and we had to convince management that a fast billboard mode was what the market also wanted,” said Gut. “It’s still high quality but it’s productive and very reliable at the highest speed.”
He made the point that it’s ten years since the first hand-assembled swissQprint machine came from the factory. It took the company two and a half years to reach 100 installations. By the end of this year he expects 1,100 installs.
Pozitive is the exclusive swissQprint agent in Australia for the six years since Geoff Tower and Lynette Vella, Digital Graphix, bought the first Impala here. It's still running strongly at the Castle Hill plant. Both were at the open house yesterday at CMP and a beaming Tower reckons that first Impala, “made our business.”