Foxton-based print business The Langham Press has installed the area’s first MGI Meteor DP8&00XL digital press.
The French-built machine was supplied via Print and Reprographic Services Ltd (PRS) to the company on behalf of MGI Technology. It was looking for a digital press to complement the company’s Komori litho equipment.
David Arnold, director, said, ‘The MGI Meteor offered a different perspective with its unique capabilities. The obvious attraction of the MGI press is that it provides our customers with a high quality reproduction. On top of that, however, it can print in sheet sizes and formats that were previously only available to us in litho form. Jobs designed to be six page A4 landscape or eight page A4 portrait, for example, work well on the Meteor. The machine can also print on to plastic, which again is unusual. This is the sort of capability that could open up new revenue streams for us.’
Different from other digital presses the Meteor is built like an offset machine. One of the main attractions of the unit is its reliability and cost effective method of print production, there are no click charges, but a toner coverage model of charging is used instead.
The company has already seen an increase in digital printing business, complementing what they can offer with litho print from the Komori The machine can provide users with a variety of revenue streams as it can produce various types of work.
