Colourworld Crew Visits drupa to View Speedmaster XL 75 in Action |
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| 02.06.2008 |
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Colourworld of Winchester in the UK is at drupa in uniform. The company’s founding brothers, Chris and Andy Tyler-Smith, and their colleagues had T-shirts specially made to sport at the show and are proud to reveal that they will be an early adopter of Heidelberg’s new top of the range B2 press, the Speedmaster XL 75.
The company has selected a five-colour with coater configuration which enables them to handle branded products using specials and to meet the just in time deadline expected by its quality-conscious agency customers by sealing work.
The productivity of the press enables Colourworld to also handle the more standard magazine, brochure and general promotional material which requires competitive pricing.
Chris Tyler-Smith, Managing Director, says: "This is our first drupa and its jaw-dropping to see and hear so many machines in one place. It’s a real buzz! We are delighted to see the XL 75 in action here.
"This make of press will generate profit for us because it will reduce our spend on overtime, give us 50 percent greater productivity over the 12-year-old SM 74 it replaces and print on a larger sheet size. It produces great mark-free print and for us the gap between the cost of a secondhand and new press was more than justified by the improvements in this latest generation technology. Heidelberg would always be the minder’s choice and we sell ourselves on that brand."
The 15-year-old company started out as a high street copy shop with a pot plant and a leased copier. The pot plant has been replaced by tropical fish and the copier by a battery of litho and digital machines housed in a 12,000-square-foot unit.
Colourworld has been enjoying 30 percent annual growth. Its current turnover is 2.3 million pounds and next year, with the press bedded in, it could reach 3 million pounds with work from throughout the UK and abroad, even as far as Australia. It has no sales team but good marketing and many word of mouth recommendations.
The Speedmaster XL 75-5+L will be delivered after drupa, in the second week of June. Ahead of the press the company has added a second Stahlfolder Ti52 which will safeguard against bottlenecks in finishing as the productivity ramps up.
For further information please contact:
Diana Thompson, Plus Point PR Ltd, on 01494 817178
Or
Mark Hogan, Heidelberg UK, on 020 8490 3500
Or
Chris or Andy Tyler-Smith, Colourworld on 01962-868430.
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