Dunfermline based Panda Print has replaced one of its digital colour lines with a Heidelberg Linoprint C751. The company has sourced its litho machines from Heidelberg for some years and when it viewed the C751 it was convinced it was right for its market.
‘It was the best option,’ said Mark Wilson, production director. ‘It offered the quality for the type and volume of job we handle and was in the right price bracket. We run a number of Heidelberg litho machines and for us a real advantage will be that in the future we will be able to connect this machine to Prinect so pre-press can allocate work quickly and easily to the best machine for the job.’
The choice between digital and litho is decided on a case by case basis, with Panda Print’s estimators advising each client on the comparative costs and agreeing which route to take. It says that work above 1000 A4 sheets would certainly go on a litho machine but sometimes the choice is more complex than simply run length.
