The business spent £81,000 on its latest Mimaki. The firm bought its first Mimaki wide-format printer four years ago and has since built up a collection including a JV34, two JV33s and now the JV5-320S. It also runs a Vutek QS 2000 and Indigo 1000 SRA3 machine for short-run brochures.

Managing director Adrian Bingley said he hoped the latest machine would add £80,000 to £100,000 of business in its first year, rolling out exhibition work and large displays. His 24-staff company makes around £2m turnover annually. 

The new printer – the second of its kind to be installed in the UK - was supplied by Mimaki UK reseller i-Sub Digital.

Bingley said: “We bought the 3.2m machine to get extra width and can now cater more for the exhibition market. Printing on to textiles and stretching them on to canvases is a cost-effective way to produce a large-scale wall display with no joins or visible fixings.”

Digital Wordcrafts has just completed a job for HSBC on the JV5, a 3m x 4m backlit display for use in a branch of the banking chain, which the company could not have achieved before installation, said Bingley.

The kit uses Mimaki SS21 solvent inks on canvas, films, vinyl, banner PVC and papers and offers resolutions up to 1,440dpi.

i-Sub Digital director Andy Spreag said his company was offering a trade-in deal for owners of Mimaki CJV30-130, Mimaki CJV30-160, Mimaki JV33-130 and Mimaki JV33-160 solvent printers for a new printer with three -year warranty and £1,800 worth of ink.