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.

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.

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Bespoke-size display board is a new and unique offering by Tradeprint. It will help customers a great deal to reach out to new markets.

“When we brought in the fixed sizes it was a bit of an experiment,” said Barrett-Bunnage, “but what we’ve done now is brought in bespoke sizing and pricing with our simplest and quickest interface yet and we are able top offer some of the lowest prices in the UK for large format products.” From Now onwards, the products will be priced in square metre instead of pricing per product, he further explained.

Tradeprint Bespoke-size display board

“We see huge potential in the large-format market. We want to be a one-stop shop for our customers and so we need to carry a full range of products. We are introducing this to small commercial printers and showing them that there are other markets to tap. We want to grow with those businesses,” he explained.

“Because we are part of a group like Cimpress we can leverage that to maximise our volume discounts from the supplier and then pass it on the customer,” he said. “Our price point looks to be competitive but not hugely disruptive – we want to fit in with the rest of the market,” he added.

He explained: “We are a trusted name, our standards and quality are well-known and we’ve been growing exponentially. The major market difference between us and others out there is the price point,  but we don’t want to be cheapest because a large element of what we supply is the whole package. We make a lot of effort not to be value-oriented.”

“Price wars are a huge issue and it’s inevitable people will start them, which means the rest of the market has to respond, but it’s not something that helps the industry. It’s not sustainable.”

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