DME Delivers executives decided to upgrade their large format equipment and enlisted their Operations Manager, Kevin Majeski, to find a solution that would grow their business. After evaluating many manufacturers, Majeski pointed to Agfa and the Jeti Tauro H2500 LED for its versatility, flexibility, quality and operational costs.
DME Visual is a premier grand format printing and design company offering various visual products and services that elevate brands and make lasting impressions – from large-scale branded environments, portable, retail and trade show displays, signs and banners, custom graphics and POP/POS.
‘We did our due diligence when making this investment,’ noted Majeski. ‘The Jeti Tauro H2500 LED was the best option compared to other devices. We wanted the flexibility of printing on roll and rigid media, a wider colour gamut to hit brand colours, and higher production levels. The Jeti Tauro’s ink savings nailed it.’
The Jeti Tauro H2500 LED is a robust, hybrid UV inkjet printer with an integrated, roll-to-roll system for countless media applications. It features speeds up to 275sqm/h (2960 square feet/hr) and prints up to 2.54m (100”) wide with outstanding print quality in six colours plus white or white and primer.
‘This press is faster than our other two combined. With the increase in production, we are focusing on filling up press time and making sure we are running at capacity,’ said Majeski.
The Jeti Tauro wide format systems run Agfa’s UV LED-curable Anuvia inks that produce a wide colour gamut and sharp, vibrant images that can adhere to a broad range of flexible media. This patented ‘Thin Ink Layer’ technology presents the optimal dispersion of pigment particles in ink, resulting in low ink consumption and low costs.
DME Visual realises significant ink savings with the Tauro H2500 LED. ‘The Anuvia, ink cost savings is music to our ears. It was difficult to be competitive with what we were spending on ink with our other printers,’ stated Majeski. ‘The ability to run corrugated board at production mode on the Jeti Tauro and achieve consistent brand colours throughout longer runs has enabled us to be more efficient and expand capacity.’
The registration pins on Jeti Tauro H2500 LED assures accurate board alignment with up to 1mm accuracy, reducing the labour spent on masking media. ‘Before the Tauro, we used to struggle with labor, print quality, and colour consistency,’ explained Majeski. ‘The labour involved in masking board media was inefficient and pricing us out of the market competitively, and the colour was inconsistent on long runs.’
Agfa’s wide format workflow software Asanti drives the Jeti Tauro 2500 LED and controls the entire printing process from prepress to production to finishing. Asanti’s intelligent imaging algorithms help optimise ink consumption and reduce costs. Asanti offers a comprehensive integration of file handling, colour management and preflighting, thus guaranteeing smooth and error-free jobs.
‘Asanti gives us much more control profiling all different media so we can manage the parameters for a particular substrate,’ said Majeski. ’In combination with PrintTune, we efficiently keep our colours accurate and consistent, and it makes for smoother approvals. Asanti and PrintTune have increased our efficiency and productivity, which is a big advantage when working with our brand clients.’
PrintTune is Agfa’s comprehensive print standardisation solution that guarantees colour consistency and ensures that printing jobs meet in-house standards or commonly known colour specs such as Fogra 51, GRACoL and G7. It increases productivity by lowering media consumption and improves communication between operators, quality management and print buyers.
‘We are poised to expand our business and hope to keep this press at capacity,’ said Majeski. ‘It’s been great working with Agfa. I appreciate that Agfa allows the product to speak for itself. The Agfa team explained what the Jeti Tauro could do and invited us to test it out. They give prospects the data they need and will partner with you through all the due diligence. The customer support has been night and day to what we had.’
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