10.31.16
Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (EFI) announced that Imagine! Express, a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Imagine! Print Solutions, has purchased an EFI™VUTEk HS125 Pro hybrid roll/flatbed inkjet press to increase its production capacity. The new 3.2-meter wide, high-volume UV-inkjet device replaced an older-model EFI VUTEk printer.
“Although we did our due diligence before making a decision, in the end we chose to stay with VUTEk because we know the ins and outs of the machines – their quality and reliability – and because EFI has taken the product family to a new level with the HS125 Pro,” said Imagine! Express president Mike Lecus. “It’s a strong, high quality production press that will increase our capacity by a factor of 10.”
Imagine! Express’s previous VUTEk printer produced seven to eight boards per hour. The new press will produce 80 to 90 boards per hour at the quality level customers require, and has maximum speeds up to 125 boards per hour.
“We have grown over 300% since we were acquired by Imagine! four years ago,” Lecus stated. “Not only will this increase capacity, but it also increases the run lengths we can economically produce. And importantly, it will allow us to bring most, if not all, of our outsourced work back in house.”
Imagine! Express is focused on producing high quality, quick turn short runs of signage and point-of-purchase materials for its retail and other clients.
“We used to define short run as one to a few hundred sheets of material,” Lecus explained. “Now we are looking at runs up to 500 boards or more. It really expands what we are able to do and support for our customers.”
“Although we did our due diligence before making a decision, in the end we chose to stay with VUTEk because we know the ins and outs of the machines – their quality and reliability – and because EFI has taken the product family to a new level with the HS125 Pro,” said Imagine! Express president Mike Lecus. “It’s a strong, high quality production press that will increase our capacity by a factor of 10.”
Imagine! Express’s previous VUTEk printer produced seven to eight boards per hour. The new press will produce 80 to 90 boards per hour at the quality level customers require, and has maximum speeds up to 125 boards per hour.
“We have grown over 300% since we were acquired by Imagine! four years ago,” Lecus stated. “Not only will this increase capacity, but it also increases the run lengths we can economically produce. And importantly, it will allow us to bring most, if not all, of our outsourced work back in house.”
Imagine! Express is focused on producing high quality, quick turn short runs of signage and point-of-purchase materials for its retail and other clients.
“We used to define short run as one to a few hundred sheets of material,” Lecus explained. “Now we are looking at runs up to 500 boards or more. It really expands what we are able to do and support for our customers.”