Installed in February, the new AccurioPress has replaced one of Ronset’s two AccurioPress C6100 presses. Capable of 120ppm, compared to the C6100’s 100ppm, the new press has given the firm an overall boost of 10% to its digital print capacity, and has opened up new options for printing on textured and heavier stocks up to 450gsm.
The boost to print capacity came hot on the heels of Ronset’s installation of a new Duplo DC-618 slitter-cutter-creaser in late January.
The firm had recently said goodbye to its long-term finisher, Ian Parkhouse, who retired just before Christmas. It was the perfect time, said Chris Durham, Ronset’s commercial director, to bolster the firm’s automated finishing capacity.
He told Printweek: “We already had the [DBM-600] bookletmaker, so we know that kit. We had actually looked at the slitter-cutter-creaser just before Covid, but obviously we had to put it on the back burner – but now we’re looking at efficiencies and automation, and the DC-618 fits the bill perfectly.
“We do around 10,000 business cards a day, so it’s an awful lot to cut on the guillotine. We needed to reduce that bottleneck, become more efficient in cutting, and the DC-618 allowed us to do that.”
With both AccurioPress and DC-618, the firm has stuck to brands it had an established relationship with.
“We’d been looking at a new press for the last six months or so. The lease was coming to an end, so we knew what was coming around the corner,” Durham said.
“We looked at other manufacturers – but we’ve been loyal Konica Minolta customers for a good number of years so we have a good relationship with them, and it’s the same again with Duplo.”
With both machines in, Ronset is now looking to take on further business, and push the £1m turnover, nine-person business to around £1.2m in the coming financial year.
“We’re coming up to the end of our financial year and we’re above target, which is good,” Durham said.
“We’re going for growth next year: we’ve already seen an increase in efficiencies, so we can get jobs out and through the building quicker, and even had a client comment on the fantastic turnaround.
“We thrive on customer service, it’s a major part of what we do.”
