Prestige Print has taken delivery of a Xerox mono press and Morgana PowerSquare 224 booklet maker to cope with expanding demand and to make the 33-year-old business more efficient.
Hitesh Dhulashia runs the Telford business with his two brothers, ploughing money back into the company. “The investments will help us with production,” he says. “We needed to invest in square back to cope with products that can be up to 200pp. We have two Horizon booklet makers but these are limited to 80pp and we need to do some catalogues and manuals to 260pp.”
These extra large products will be side stitched by hand and then taped. Fortunately he says the numbers that push this envelope are small. But there are plenty that exceed the 80pp limit on the company’s two Horizon booklet makers.
The PowerSquare will deliver up to 224pp on 80gsm papers, with two stitched and a formed squared spine which enables the product to be opened flat and achieves a stable stack when piled up.
At the same time the business has invested in a Xerox PrimeLink B9100 to boost capacity for mono pages from customers in a 25-mile radius around Telford covering commercial print, catalogues and manuals. This can print 136ppm
“We have never been shy to invest,” says Dhulashia. “It’s been about keeping our heads down and working hard. We are only 13 or 14 working a single shift and putting in nine- and ten-hour days when necessary. We have always wanted to provide a good service.”
