Dave Savastano, Editor03.23.15
To achieve this, Engineered Printing Solutions partners with its customers to create machines that exceed expectations, and the company has achieved dramatic growth during the past three decades.
As specialists in the pad printing industry, EPS has developed a full range of equipment and consumables, including inks pads and plates, for its customers. As customers looked to inkjet for solutions, EPS expanded its offerings as well.
“One of our major areas of expertise is customized automated printing systems, which require more room for product development and assembling,” said Julian Joffe, Engineered Printing Solutions’ CEO.
“Our Engineering Department is highly innovative when it comes to approaches to individual printing challenges, and works collaboratively with customers to build custom ‘purpose-built’ printers,” added Abby Marsh, director of marketing for EPS. “At EPS, we listen to every word our customers say, we question until we understand and then we design and build.”
In 2003, EPS moved into a new 22,500 square foot building located in East Dorset, VT. The company is now ready to take the next step, both by expanding its headquarters as well as adding new product lines.
“EPS is experiencing a second growth spurt since having relocated to its East Dorset facility 20 years ago,” Marsh noted. “EPS will start breaking ground soon on an additional 10,000 square feet of production space to keep pace with their growing manufacturing demands. After the completion of the addition, the facility will now exceed 32,500 square feet.”
“Not only is our facility expanding, but in addition to our pad print solutions, we now offer several industrial inkjet printers. We have developed a single-pass high-speed multicolor printer, the XD070, plus we are currently building several custom monochrome inkjet systems with part handling capabilities,” Marsh added.
“Our move to go digital has been going on for a few years now and our research and development will continue for many years to come,” Marsh noted.
EPS is also formulating innovative new inks, including its FlexiCure UV LED curable inkjet inks, as well as its partnership with DNA Technologies to provide the latest in advanced security marking.
“Through our partnership with DNA Technologies, EPS offers new solutions in security printing and brand protection,” Marsh noted. “EPS will be demonstrating these technologies at 2015 trade show events.”
EPS is currently focused on the medical and industrial markets. Since 1985, EPS has been working closely with medical device manufacturers and their outsourcing partners to develop new techniques and custom automation for difficult-to-mark products.
For example, Marsh noted that EPS’s 360° catheter printers can print multiple colors and markings on the outer circumference of catheters or tubes as long as 1600mm in length and as narrow as .025”.
EPS has also custom designed pad and inkjet printers for test strip materials, specimen trays, optical lenses, several types and sizes of syringes with in-line pre-and post-treatment devices along with full automation capabilities.
Marsh said that the pursuit of “Perfection in customer service and satisfaction” has been the key to the company’s success.
“To assure that we reach that goal, we become partners with our customers so their goals become our goals,” Marsh said. “This performance has resulted in dramatic growth within the company. EPS is one of the few companies that put its money where its mouth is. Our customer satisfaction policy is simple…our customer must be a 100 percent satisfied with the performance of their machine or we will refund their money, period. It doesn’t get any simpler or easier than that.
“The future for EPS is very bright,” Marsh added. “There are some really exciting changes that will be occurring over the course of 2015.”