Kall Kwik Welwyn Garden City is preparing to take delivery of one of the first Fujifilm Revoria EC2100S presses in the UK. The machine is scheduled to arrive next week when it will supplant a Xerox 280. This will be retained as a standby press, says managing director and franchise owner Phil Beverley.
The machine comes with the fifth colour option which Beverley expects will be use by pink to exploit its gamut expanding impact. This boosts accuracy of colours in the red, orange and purple part of the spectrum, comping closer to matching RGB colours. “We will get a lot better colour replication. We have customers that are very particular about colour; this will help us,” he says. “In future we can think about adding silver.”
The company handles a growing amount of work produced using Canva, which is supplied in RGB with the expectation that the printer can match what is seen on screen.
The investment means a substantial increase in capacity and enables the company to expand markets and its customer base. It installed a Duplo DBM150 18 months ago, followed by a perfect binder from the same supplier last year. A Matrix laminator has followed. This had enabled the company to produce booklets and brochures in house rather than sending these to the trade.
“We have been out growing the Versant 280 and needed something more productive. We looked at Ricoh, then saw the Fujifilm machine at the Print Show last year. The press will greatly enhance our production capabilities allowing us to deliver exceptional quality, quicker turnaround times and broader range of printing options,” says Beverley.
The machine is being supplied an installed by Fujifilm dealer DPS.
While the press was introduced at the Print Show and had even made an appearance at Drupa last year, the commercial introduction only came this year. It is a 100ppm press and slots between the flagship Revoria PC1200 which can offer up to six colours a pass and the Apeos entry level printers.
