Blue Star has signed a major deal to boost its production capabilities with the installation of four brand new Fuji Xerox iGen5 presses at its plants in Melbourne and Sydney.
Following the launch of the Xerox iGen5 Press in the Asia-Pacific region just last week, Fuji Xerox Australia has announced that Blue Star Group, a division of ASX-listed IVE Group, will install four of the new presses and a series of complimentary technologies at the Blue Star PRINT and Blue Star DIRECT divisions.
The iGen5 was launched in the US market last year but Fuji Xerox installed a prototype in Sydney to allow local clients to test it out.
Blue Star conducted an extensive series of spot colour tests on 50 client logos against both the Xerox® iGen5® Press’ market rivals and traditional offset presses, confirming a significant jump in colour and image quality from previous generations, according to a Fuji Xerox Australia press release.
"We came up trumps across all those tests with amazing results and they were quite impressed," said Adam Fittler, Fuji Xerox Australia's National Sales Manager. “Blue Star is a really diverse group and each site has quite different solutions to satisfy its specific requirements, so the end result was a really unique digital printing solution to match their needs ranging from high-tech security printing to fully automated booklet printing. Two iGen5's will go into the Blue Star plant in Melbourne and two will be installed in Sydney."
The technology provides Blue Star with the capability to print complex and intricate work, never before achieved through digital printing, with exceptional speed to market. The Xerox® iGen5® Press offers significant advancements in speed, improved image and print quality and introduces a fifth colour that hits a wider range of client’s custom colours without reducing print speed.
“Blue Star has built its reputation as a market leader off the back of our continual investment in technology," said Matt Aitken, CEO, Blue Star. "Our customers trust us to deliver the best print quality with the best speed to market, and the iGen5 will further help us to deliver on this promise"
Blue Star has also installed a number of high end Monochrome Nuvera 314EA Systems, which feature purpose built in-line finishing for high volume booklet printing and an in-line scanning and verification system that checks printing integrity during the printing process. A Colour 1000i with Metallic Dry Ink and a Versant 2100 Press round out the suite of installations.