ISSUE 190 MARCH 2020
Sign Update
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The investment has enabled the company to enter new markets
LED UV printer and digital
cutter help grow sign business
Signs and Graphics has purchased an
Agfa Anapurna H2500i LED UV printer
and a Blackman & White Genesis V digital
cutting system from i-Sub Digital in an
investment made ahead of schedule.
The business had planned to expand
production within around five years but
when additional floor space became
available at the same time as a major
customer expanded to become one of the
largest garden centre chains in the UK,
Total Signs stepped on the accelerator.
"We've always had a strong relationship
with the company and when it went
national there was potential for us to grow
with them," says operations director
James Cody. "However, there was no way
we could do it without new a printer; it
simply wasn't possible to complete the
work in the required time scale."
Total Signs took delivery of the printer in
August 2019, giving it the ability to print
onto a wide range of uncoated rigid and
roll media for indoor and outdoor
applications at high speeds. The Agfa is
the first UV printer for the business which
had formerly used only solvent systems.
When the faster turnaround created a
bottleneck in the finishing department the
Genesis-V digital cutting system was
purchased. Total Signs and Graphics could
immediately take on further projects for its
garden centre client.
"From mid-July until late November we
had a team of two installing internal and
external signs and graphics, all printed on
the Agfa, at branches around the country,"
says James. "We won a further POS job
ahead of Christmas: producing shelf strips
for tens of thousands of products. There
was no way we could have done that by
hand.
"Our customer's growth gave us a happy
push to bring our investment schedule
forward. The Anapurna and Genesis-V
have made a massive difference: we can
now enter new markets and employ two
new members of staff. We're loyal
customers of i-Sub because their service
is second to none."
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The Agfa is the first UV printer for the business
“Our customer’s
growth gave us a
push to bring our
investment forward”
The Genesis V digital cutter has enabled Signs and Graphics to take on more
projects