HP Indigo 5500 adds quality to QPrint Online

Quality Press boosts its online arm, QPrint Online, with the installation of a new HP Indigo 5500.

The progressive Osborne Park-based company, which boasts the credit of being the first printer to install a Kodak Nexpress in 2006 along with the first A1 10-colour Komori LS1040P press in Australia believes in planning ahead for the future.

Recognising the obvious rise of digital printing, management made the decision to grow QPrint Online, its digital branch established in 2006. Director, Ramesh Patel, and Atish Shah, managing director, first caught sight of the HP Indigo 5500 at PacPrint this year and were impressed.

“We are always analysing our strengths and weaknesses,” Shah said. “The Nexpress continues to be important for QPrint Online but we thought that having an Indigo would give us additional strength along with providing extra choice for our customers.”

Adrian Dixon, sales manager for the Currie Group in Western Australia, believes that the 5500, which is being installed this week, will open up a number of promising opportunities for the company.

“It will allow them to take on new markets due to its quality,” he said. “It will also give them access to more high-end work.”

Pictured: Planning for the future, (l-r) Ramesh Patel, Adrian Dixon and Atish Shah.

Shah and Patel regularly devise five-year plans for their business and part of the current manifesto involves rapid growth of QPrint Online, which, although still a part of Quality Press, has a different name due to the nature of the work it produces.

“Moving into digital printing is far more than just buying a machine,” Patel said. “The culture is different, which is why we keep the two separate.”

The two men, who met after migrating to Australia in the 1990s, have come a long way since buying Quality Press in 1995 when it was in administration. With no previous history in printing, the two have today built the business up into a leading player in Western Australia.

Shah sees that offset will continue to be an integral part of the company’s range of services, but change and new developments is something that Quality Press takes seriously.

“There will always be a need for offset – at least in the next five to 10 years; but we also see the importance of moving with the technology,” he said.