Atlantic Tech Services has installed Ricoh Pro L4130 latex printer to increase its printing, cutting and lamination capacities.

It opens up new opportunities for the business as they can produce and finish a lot better. On procuring this machine, the managing director of the company was very pleased and he expressed his feelings in an interview.

 “The installation of the Pro L4130 has opened up a number of new business opportunities for our business,” says Steve Tanner, managing director of Vinyl Decals Direct, adding: “The sharper images, vibrant colours with the ability to print quicker, without the need to de-gas is brilliant for our production deadlines.”

Ricoh Pro L4130 latex printer

Keith Pratt, Director at Atlantic Tech Services adds: “The installation at Vinyl Decals Direct was an important development with our sales of the Pro L4100 Series Latex Printers.“These printers offer those companies who are looking to install a latex printer a quality printer with Ricoh GEN5 high-speed print heads that last and last, with the added benefit that you don’t have to change print heads after just a few litres of ink as with most other latex printers.

“This added to the recent release of the new Ricoh AR fast drying Latex inks gives the L4130 printer the ability of printing at speeds up to 50 percent faster than its nearest rivals.

“The AR Inks reduce those ink smells you normally get from solvent inks and come supplied in 600ml bulk ink packs.”

Moreover, this machine provides higher efficiency and in lesser time the company will be able to produce more. Atlantic’s reliance on Ricoh machine is a good notion as the company is seeing growth and it is upgrading its resources, equipment and machine.

BBC Earth magazine has been launched by BBC Worldwide at Sealife Centre, London on November, 2.

The magazine will be sold out at a price of £3.99. The price is within reasonable ranges. It is published by River Group of London and it will be printed by Midlands-based Precision Colour Printing (PCP).

Front Cover Of BBC Earth magazine

Sharon Kirby, the River Group publisher described the magazine as, “packed full of unmissable photography and inspiring features across nature, science, people and space”.

Initially, 73,000 copies of the magazine are printed and PCP has been granted a long-term contract by BBC Earth.

The sales director of PCP, Richard Kibble said “We have been working with River for many years and doing various titles for it. Obviously, it now has this partnership with BBC Worldwide and we are delighted to have that in the portfolio.

“The content and photography in this title are just fantastic and both have reproduced beautifully.”

He is also expecting a huge amount of sales as the magazine contains thoroughly researched work by renowned specialists throughout the world.

The magazine is UV varnished and contains a high-quality paper and printing of excessive quality. BBC has a worldwide popularity and its resources are considered to be very authentic. So, one may envisage a high demand of this magazine.

BBC Earth is a core brand of BBC and it is a good decision by the news agency to convert one of its major brands into a printed product.

Alan Buck, 72, the owner of Graphics Arts (UK) and its subsidiaries Concept4 Creative and Printoff Graphic Arts has retired and the company is sold out to an MBO team.

On the occasion of 40th anniversary of the company, the decision was made out. MBO team consists of 03 members. These are Alex Buck, who is the son of Alan and the technology director of the company. The other 02 members are Jason Tomlinson, the finance director and Jane Cleaver the managing director of the company. All of these members will remain in their existing roles within the company.

MBO Team

Cleaver explained that they were in discussion since the start of this year and finally ended up with a quick deal.

She said: “There wasn’t a lot of nitty gritty, Alan wanted this to happen, we wanted it to happen and we were able to work through it very swiftly.

“As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the business this has been very timely. Alan is very confident that we will be able to take things further forward for him and we are all excited at the opportunity.”

All of these MBO members are in business for more than 20 years.

“We aren’t looking for much change, we have from Printoff’s point of view invested in a new web-to-print solution that has taken traction,” added Cleaver.

“We feel we can press forward with that and embrace the technology that is out there and feel we are quite unique because of what we offer as a group of companies. So we will be embracing new technologies but continuing to invest in traditional print.”

This is a good notion that a company is sold out to internal members. MBO members are already involved in the operations and progress of the company, so there wouldn’t be much change in the management.

Signs And Lines has installed Roland TrueVis VG640 printer-cutter. It is of worth £15,000. The last month they installed a Mounter’s Mate Laminator and it had a cost of almost £10,000.

It is a huge investment made out by the company in printing, cutting and laminating areas. The company envisage an increase in sales and printing volumes.

Andrews said: “We were looking around at a few different machines and then we saw a demo and considering we’ve got a Roland already we were quite impressed. The print quality is very good, it has got really strong vibrant colours and is really everything we want in one machine.

“I’ve always liked Roland, it’s a well-known name in the market. We briefly looked at others and were briefly looking at a Mimaki flatbed but decided that it wasn’t for us. We will look at getting other kit from Roland in the future, some of its smaller flatbeds might be the next thing we invest in.”

Andrew explained that it is very helpful in doing vinyl wall jobs and they already have  a considerable amount of printing through this.

He added, “We are now manufacturing 80%-90% of what we send out in-house,”

“We tend to do big projects and the problem is that they take up the machine and that means we can’t put other regular stuff through it. Now we can use the new machine for projects and the regular stuff can be made up on the 540.”

Roland TrueVis VG640 printer-cutter

The firm came into being in the year 2000 with eight staff and in the upcoming year, they are planning to hire more staff. By the end of the next year, the company is looking to reach out to sales turnover of £1m, that is quite impressive. In order to produce massively, they require a reliable machine as of Roland TrueVis VG640 printer-cutter.

Black Lion Press has purchased Ricoh Pro C7100x of worth £63,000 as it complies with company’s needs. The installation will be done in December.

Ricoh Pro C7100 comes with amazing features and it provides new features which were not included earlier. Managing director of Black Lion Press, Mark Stokes said: “We quite often see the guys from Ricoh and some of the reps came and said to me, ‘Look we’ve got this new bit of kit out.’ I was very impressed with the machine, especially the fact it has moved on to the clear and the white so for us it is a little bit different from just printing CMYK.

Ricoh Pro C7100

“We do quite a lot of charity sector work and sometimes we are pushed out by the fact that clients ask, for example, for a booklet on 380gsm Fedrigoni dark blue board, which means we can’t do the job. There are certain things I feel we’ve been closed out on but I feel this is a bit of a new opening in the market for us.”

It comes with amazing colours and shades and every sector of the industry can get benefitted from it.

Stokes further added, “We’ve noticed a real trend in the last six months in the way quantities on jobs have gone down,”

“With this machine in mind, we still need to keep the litho but we’re finding so much more work is crossing over to the digital market simply because of quantities. Unless it’s a mailing, jobs tend to be around 1,000 sheets.”

Moreover, the machine is meant for heavy duty tasks and it could be a great help to the company. The company can improve its productivity and efficiency through this amazing machine. It has a great printing speed and within no time, it can produce huge quantities.