(L- R) Dave Dixon, sales and marketing director with David Ghent, managing director
Minuteman Press Bath has installed a 1,230 mm x 2,520 mm Valiani Optima V 250 flatbed cutting table, purchased from Morgana Systems, to improve its short-run in-house cutting facility.
A key feature of the Italian manufactured Optima V range of cutting tables is a tool change mechanism that allows the user to move swiftly from cutting to creasing, perforating, embossing, plotting, or writing and drawing.
‘Short-run packaging, shaped business cards, folders and flyers, plus signage work were the initial areas of work that we had in mind,’ explained Dave Dixon, sales and marketing director, ‘but we are already discovering a host of other possibilities. Almost immediately we picked up a job requiring cut tabs within a report and cut lettering from rigid PVC – the Valiani was able to handle that very quickly and very easily.
‘In the packaging market we are talking to a number of companies about test cartons that they want to produce,’ he added. ‘The Valiani gives us a very cost effective solution to producing such ultra-short “proofing” runs.’
‘We are delighted that Minuteman Press Bath has become the first UK business to see the potential offered by the largest format Optima 250 cutting table,’ commented Ray Hillhouse, vice president of offline business at Morgana Systems. ‘The young team at Minuteman Press Bath are already coming up with new and interesting applications.’
