A new Zünd G3 has been installed at Colouration
South-west London print company Colouration has installed a Zünd digital cutting table for work in the run-up to Christmas and beyond.
A specialist in the beauty and fragrance retail market, Colouration supplies a wide range of printed materials to the high street. The company was looking to increase its finishing department – which had already included a Zünd table – to manage overflow.
Colouration purchased its Zünd G3 2XL3200, supplied by Canon, following a visit to Zünd UK’s showroom in St Albans, while the exact configuration was decided at a second viewing at FESPA 2017.
The new cutting table can clear bottlenecks from both Colouration’s existing router machine, running MDF and acrylic, and its knife cutting machine on corrugated board. It features a tandem vacuum system: two vacuum plates on the working area that can be operated independently of each other, enabling the cutter to work on one side while material is fed onto the other to save downtime and boost productivity. It is also fitted with Zünd’s Automatic Router Bit Changer (ARC), which changes router bits without user intervention to accelerate production further.
‘It’s a great machine – faster than the older machine, versatile and clean working,’ commented managing director Tony Dennington. ‘In the early years we were asking if you could justify buying a cutting machine when you compared it with someone with a ruler, but technology has advanced so much that you now have the speed and accuracy on any size, any shape and any material. It has become a necessity to our business.’
Now most of the valuable pre-Christmas retail work has been completed, Colouration is looking towards 2018, potentially adding extra shifts to cope with the output. Investment in additional printing equipment may also be on the cards.
