UK-based print specialist Customark has meet growing customer demand for short runs with a Dantex PicoColour label press, installed in October.
Located in Stourbridge, West Midlands, Customark has been providing labelling, print and graphic options to a wide range of industries for the last 50 years. Following significant investment in its infrastructure in 2017, including buildings, hardware and software, the firm looked to expand its digital print capability due to increased demand for shorter runs.
PicoColour is a UV inkjet label press with a 210mm printing width, that can handle a very of substrates, and can print on media from 100-300 micron at speeds up to 35m/min. There are a number of additional options available to customise the press, with Customark’s PicoColour featuring corona unit, variable data package and white.
Customark managing director Neil Turner said, ‘We began to evaluate our options 12 months ago. We wanted to find a digital press that fully met our requirements, however some of the other options we considered did not fit that solution nearly as well as the PicoColour. The addition of the corona unit meant that we can use a wide variety of standard laminate constructions which helped us enormously. Added to that the white print option and variable data and we felt that the PicoColour was definitely the best fit for us. The icing on the cake was the support installation and training, which has been outstanding.’
Andy Abbott, director of operations at Dantex, said, ‘We are delighted that Customark has invested in a PicoColour press and are confident it will develop business opportunities with new customers where origination costs can often be a barrier. Given the success of the press so far, we look forward to discussing further investment opportunities in the future.’
Mr Turner added, ‘Having done the maths, it was clear to us that by investing in a PicoColour we could make huge time savings, significantly improve our quality and radically alter the type of work we could print and tender for, whilst improving our margins in the process.
