Arriving in September, the new 3.3m-wide device has been taken on at the Bacup, Lancashire-based operation after the team first became interested in it following a launch event at Agfa’s Antwerp base in 2018.

It has allowed Super-Wide to introduce a range of new products to its offering, including double-sided self-cling window graphics printed in a single pass and direct printing onto powder-coated metal sheets.

“When we ultimately installed the Jeti Tauro and put it through initial testing it performed even better than we had anticipated,” said business development manager Luke Drogan.

“We found immediate benefits. The first was the impressive level of quality at high speed. Secondly, the coverage capability of its high-speed white ink and finally the primer feature which allows us to print on materials that are usually difficult for inks to adhere to.

“The Jeti Tauro was a press that we hadn’t desperately needed as a business, but it is now one that we definitely can’t do without.”

Agfa’s Jeti Tauro H3300 LED is a hybrid UV-LED wide-format press that allows manual, continuous and automated feeding of both rigid and flexible materials.

It includes 60 fast-firing Ricoh Gen5 printheads, each with four nozzle rows offering two colours per head. Super-Wide installed it configured with the UK’s first optional Master Roll-to-Roll system, which allows for jumbo rolls of up to 750kg per roll in both single- and dual-lane print modes.

Super-Wide has brought it into a portfolio of wide-format kit that includes 1.6m and 3.2m roll-to-roll, dye-sub, 3.2m hybrid and 5m roll-to-roll capabilities on multiple machines, allowing for contingency on all its services.

A family-run business, Super-Wide Digital employs 40 members of staff on its 4,650sqm site just north of Manchester.