Pinders boosts output with Vutek QS2000

Pinders is targeting a 100% increase in output and "improved lead times" after investing 200,000 in a superwide-format Vutek digital press.

The 45-staff, Sheffield-based company also expects the seven-colour Vutek QS2000, which will be located at the firm's Attercliffe copy shop, to improve print quality.

The QS2000, which replaces an existing six-colour Vutek press, can print finished, weatherproof graphics directly onto most surfaces up to two metres wide.

The high-definition press can print white ink, which allows the company to produce window graphics as well as a wide spectrum of promotional and marketing work, such as billboards and building wraps.

Pinders joint managing director David Whiteway said the new press would offer "a far increased print capacity".

"The original Vutek press we acquired in 2005 has been a massive success and this latest upgrade not only places us at the forefront of technology in large digital and bespoke finishing, but offers Pinders' customers impressive solutions to their creative ideas both for one-offs and volume work."