Resolution Imaging celebrates the arrival of its brand new six-colour flatbed UV, touching down over the Australia Day weekend. With less than a month under the belt, it marks the first Screen Truepress Jet 1632UV to land in the country and it is already earning its stripes for the Melbourne-based business.
The Resolution team were impressed by the 1632UV's speed and performance, born from a collaboration between Screen and its wholly owned group company Inca, based out of Cambridge, UK. Initially set up by director Darren Watkins in 1996, Resolution Imaging has been actively involved in digital UV printing for more than ten years and running UV presses on-site for the last six. Watkins tells Print21 that the new Truepress is a real racehorse, maxing out at 94 square metres an hour, saying the team are already noticing a big difference.
"Our work was going that way. We were looking at a lot of double-sided boards, with quick turnarounds on demand, and the Truepress Jet 1632UV just ticked all the boxes. I've worked with Screen before, and we were impressed with the engineering on the Incas. It ups our capacity and gives us high quality," said Watkins.
- New year's resolution - Darren Watkins (director, Resolution) and Keith Atherton (Screen)
According to Watkins he was looking for a high performing table printer to develop its new markets, and the Truepress Jet 1632UV delivered an unbeatable package. He goes on to say that while they have already cranked the new press up to its top speed, Resolution is keeping it solidly in its middle band for the time being.
Watkins adds that, "On the finishing side we've got a Kongsberg XL 24, and we just put in an XP 24 last week actually. Now we're printing that much faster, we had to ramp up the cutting. We're seeing a difference already. The work comes straight off the Screen and onto the XP, we're looking a finished product almost instantly."
A close-knit team of around a dozen, Resolution Imaging offers everything from creative design to printing, die-cutting, laminating and finishing. The main substrates used by Resolution are XBoard, ReBoard and Corflute, also running foamboards like Kapa, Gator and ForeX. According to Keith Atherton, southern region sales manager, Screen, it is an ideal showcase for Australia's first Truepress Jet 1632UV.
"Productivity is vitally important as they can receive orders for hundreds of advertising displays at short notice and must turn them around quickly. We could not wish for a better first site to show that Screen and its group subsidiary Inca can really make a difference when it comes to high-productivity, photographic quality flatbed UV," said Atherton.
Peter Scott, managing director, Screen, said, "The flatbed UV market in Australia is very competitive, with all manufacturers represented in a country of relatively small population, separated by great distances. It is therefore a real pleasure to have success with the 1632UV to add to a 2500UV installed in Perth, Western Australia. We now look forward to more enquiries on the new W3200UV released in November, for which we anticipate great success due to its advanced features."