(L-R) Mr Kwan-Soo Choi, CEO and chairman of DGI, Mr Bryan Choi, director, DGI, Murray Lock and Mark Stribley, joint managing directors, M Partners
M Partners will concentrate on the growth market of wide format printers with its new division M Partners Wide, and it already has its first distribution contract with South Korean manufacturing company DGI.
The Surrey-based business specialises in the distribution of products focused on the printing industry. The equipment line-up the company will feature from DGI includes the Velojet VE 320 4D printer, a product focused on the 3.2 m wide format market.
The machine has a throughput of up to 120 sqm/hr at 720 x 360 dpi and is accompanied by bulk ink tanks for on-the-fly refilling and automated cleaning and end-capping. Image resolution of up 1440 dpi and a Wasatch RIP make this unit suitable for both indoor and outdoor applications as well as vehicle wrap work.
Mark Stribley, joint managing director of M Partners, said, ‘This is a sector that we have been monitoring for some while. It is no great secret that much of the printing equipment market right now is static at best. Wide format continues to grow. However, we didn’t want to enter the market with a ‘me too’ product.
‘We believe that the impressive build quality of DGI equipment gives us several important points of difference with which to announce our arrival in this market: it is extremely well designed, and built with the best of South Korean know-how and technology, combined with Japanese quality. The use of Konica Minolta heads ensures that the products will be taken very seriously in a market that is keen to seek cost-effective solutions, but only so long as the quality of the output meets the highest of standards.’
