John Brailsford (right) with Vivid’s Lewis Evans and the new duplex laminator.
Production times have been halved since John Brailsford Printers in Rotherham installed a Vivid Laminating Technologies Matrix Duplex Pneumatic double-sided B2 laminator in July, replacing an older Matrix. The new system can laminate both sides in one pass, so halving production time.
‘With our new Matrix Duplex, we can switch from single to double-sided laminating in just a few minutes’ said director John Brailsford. ‘The pneumatic roller pressure allows us to use standard OPP film, even with heavy coverage digital print, so the savings are enormous, at around 70% less than using our previous digital film laminator.’
The Matrix brings SRA3 and B2 matt, gloss and soft touch lamination in-house and speeds up the turnaround against outside sourcing. It can produce 100 SRA3 sheets in around five minutes for a film cost of £16 per 1000 sheets.
‘Our first Matrix was great but the cost implications of the digital film for laminating digital print from our Xerox presses made the process uneconomical on longer runs,’ he continued. ‘With the MX-530DP, a 2000 run just seems like a short sprint and the job’s done. We did look at other systems but for value the Matrix just can’t be beat. Vivid also offered me a great trade-in price on our original Matrix.’
Vivid will also be adding its new range of Boss Foiling and Spot UV films to the machine next month to further enhance the added value that the system can offer.
