The iGen 150, which was bought from Xerox reseller Xeretec, was installed at the firm’s main 4,646sqm premises in Reydon, Suffolk last month.
The XL 106 is due to be installed in May and will replace an existing seven-year-old Speedmaster XL 105, which will be part exchanged. The firm’s other recent investments have included a Domino Inkjet system and an MBO M80 buckle folder from Friedheim International, while an additional MBO M80 combi-folder is on order.
The business also operates an eight-colour B1 Heidelberg XL105, a Muller Martini Allegro PUR binder, a Muller Martini Prima Plus stitcher, a Heidelberg ST 450 stitcher and a Sitma polywrapping machine.
“We’ve been trying to bridge the gap here between our litho and digital departments to be able to move some of the work off our really busy B2 press. With the digital presses that we’ve had previously, the quality’s just not been good enough to be able to move some of that work over,” said digital production co-ordinator Anna Jordan-Smith.
“We’ve already had clients come back and comment on how good the quality is in comparison to what they’ve had before from us.”
The business also considered alternatives from HP, Konica Minolta and Heidelberg as well as a range of other Xerox presses but found the iGen 150 to be the best fit for its requirements.
Commercial director Robert Cross said: “One of the big plusses of the iGen is that you get so much less downtime than you do with one of the smaller presses where you’re having to constantly call out Xerox. With the iGen we should be able to deal with a lot of the maintenance issues ourselves.
“Our customer base is increasing all the time and we’re approximately 10% up on turnover year-on-year. We’re targeting growth again next year and the new kit is to cope with the increased turnover.”
Micropress has 130 staff and a turnover of £15m. It produces a wide variety of general print for customers ranging from publishers, print managers, agencies and end-users.
