Mida Sign Services has invested in a Summa F12 Flatbed cutter to help keep up with a much wider variety of work coming from consumer demands.
Jimmy Jarvis, operations manager, said, ‘Our clients have been asking us to produce a much wider variety of work for them and as a specialised one stop trade supplier we like to keep as much in house as possible. The new cutter has allowed us to offer a much greater range of printed and cut products whilst keeping the costs down to a minimum. We use it for an ever expanding range of jobs. We used it to cut vinyl the other day, to compare it with our Mimaki plotter and we were so impressed that we immediately purchased a Summa plotter to use for Vinyl cutting! The Summa flatbed cutter allows us to take on work we wouldn’t otherwise do.
‘For instance, we were recently asked to produce 600 Foamex panels. Before we had the Summa, we’d have had to buy the panels pre cut, which would have been too expensive. Now we have the Summa, we can apply multiple graphics per panel and then just cut them on the Summa.We use it to make letters, cut acrylic letters, prepare cardboard for folding and we’ve even started to use it to score dibond so we can fold it into bonded trays for signage. Previously we either wouldn’t have taken this work on or, more likely, we’d have had to buy these components in.’
The company bought the cutter from Josero, the same supply who provided the company with a Bubble Free Applicator recently.
Mr Javis added, ‘We couldn’t see why the other flatbed cutters were so much more expensive. We looked at all the other flatbed cutters on the market, and all were substantially more expensive. The only difference we could see was that some of the top of the range flatbed cutters were a little faster than the Summa, but when you see the price difference and combine that with the fact that our Summa can cut faster than we can print, the speed is not a problem at all. We opted for the flatbed cutter that included the routing unit as we knew we would utilise this added feature.’
