Next out of the blocks for FB7500

Next Printing launches first high speed HP Scitex FB7500 industrial flatbed printer in the Sydney market.

Following on from last year’s launch of the HP Scitex FB7500 at Magnify Media in Melbourne, Next Printing has pumped up the volume – and speed - with the launch of the machine into the Sydney market.

The new high-speed digital UV flatbed printer was put through its paces last week before a crowd of interested onlookers – both customers and fellow printer service providers – at a launch at the Next Printing facility in St Peters, Sydney.

Romeo Sanuri, general manager at Next Printing, said the FB7500 had been installed to further target the point-of-sale market on rigid substrates. Having previously supplied the billboard market, the company is now focused on point-of-sale and display graphics, running a number of other UV flatbed machines.

Sanuri said the machine had been outputting customers’ work since practically the day it was installed and had shown it was capable of turning around in hours jobs that would normally take days to produce.

Caption: First in Sydney with the FB7500: Romeo Sanuri of Next Printing with Bruce Caldwell, HP Scitex sales and marketing manager.

Next Printing is the digital print division of the highly successful commercial photo finishing company, Photo King, and has been running UV flatbed technology since it opened for business in 2004.

The new printer certainly lived up to its reputation at the launch, effortlessly pumping out colourful, high quality graphics on corflute and foamboard at a quick rate of knots, even though it was being run at only about half speed.

Shane Lucas director HP graphic arts South Pacific, said HP’s initial expectations that only a couple of the high speed printers would make it into the local market had already been dispelled and he expects other installations to follow soon.