CCB Takes UK's First Speedmaster XL 75 Long Perfector |
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| 04.08.2008 |
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CCB in Glasgow has installed the UK’s first Speedmaster XL 75 long perfector which it says will save it 100,000 pounds in manning and giving it three times the speed of the Speedmaster SM 74-5 it replaces.
Even within three weeks of its arrival it has attracted work CCB could not previously handled such as a 96-page A4 brochure for a local hi-fi manufacturer, with a print run of 10,000.
"If you waited for the right time to invest, you'd never invest," says Angus Macdonald, Joint Managing Director. "This is a market-driven decision. We felt if we didn't invest in this technology we would be left behind. Its speed and the fact it prints both sides of the sheet at once, will create new business opportunities both from existing and new clients."
Today about 80 percent of its business is from end users, 20 percent from designers and the CCB sales team wants to grow both sectors. Mr Macdonald estimates that at least an additional one million pound turnover will be generated by the press.
That said the investment was as much about ensuring its current turnover of 5 million pounds was generated efficiently by reducing costs as much as growing the business.
The press will run alongside the company's Speedmaster SM 74-4+L and both presses will run with processless plates and, using the latest version Prinect Prepress Interface, with closed loop colour measured using ImageControl spectrophotometry.
"Now all CCB printers are equal because they are reading colour in the same way," says Mr Macdonald. "It is security for customers who know they will get a perfect colour match any time we print for them."
The company, which currently runs double day shifts, also runs a Nexpress digital line.
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CCB's Angus MacDonald and Mark Coll
For further information, please contact:
Diana Thompson, Plus Point PR Ltd, on 01494 817178
or
Mark Hogan, Heidelberg UK, on 020 8490 3500
or
Angus Macdonald, CCB, on 0141 3533 206.
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