A new high-speed B1 Autobond laminator arrived at the firm’s Letchworth Garden City factory today (7 October).
It replaces the firm’s oldest Autobond, which was 13 years old.
The fast turnaround web-to-print specialist has also refreshed its Multigraf line-up with four new finishing devices from Duplo.
Two older Multigraf units have been taken out, with the additions taking the firm’s Multigraf firepower up to seven.
Zünd UK – located next door – is putting in a cutting table that will give the business additional flexibility.
Managing director Jon Lancaster explained: “We bought it primarily for cutting greyboard covers – front and back covers and spines for hardbacks – because cutting them on the guillotine is not good for the blade, especially for short runs.
“Then we thought, we can also upgrade our large-format offering and use the Zünd for that as well.”
The new cutting table has been configured with three heads and will arrive later this month.
Printed Easy went live with its on-demand casebound book service at the end of August.
Lancaster said the new offering was “doing well” and the overall business had a record month in September.
Its Canon SRA3-plus varioPrint iX3200 sheetfed inkjet press also arrived at the firm's 4,000sqm factory last week, and is expected to be fully up and running by the end of the month.
“There’s a lot of integration and profiling to do for that machine, and it will also change how things are routed around the factory,” Lancaster noted.
“We’re also going to add some new options to the website for the Canon as well, because of the extra pigments in the ink.
“It covers 90% of the Pantone range, so we can offer commercial clients and customers such as photographers a different way of printing.”
Printed Easy also added a similar extended gamut function for work produced on its Durst inkjet label press, installed earlier this year.
The firm’s Smyth DX-80 thread sewing device, ordered at Drupa, is also now operational and allows the business to offer that as an option on hardback, softback and perfect bound products.
The latest kit represents an investment of around £400,000 for the 57-employee firm, which is expecting to achieve sales of £15.7m this year.
At Drupa Printed Easy also signed up for Canon's new B2 inkjet, the 8,700sph varioPress iV7, and is likely to become one of the first installations in Europe when the press ships.
