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Printer Profile
company’s systems. We went for high capacity because we wanted to give the trade the best possible service. Wide format print is a bright spot in the industry, and now the trade has the capability to meet that demand with the new Durst at Avon.”
The new Durst will sit in the new wide format production centre in
the company’s Melbourne premises, which has been created from what was the office block, and is now an air conditioned climate controlled dedicated print centre. The company has built a new office block on spare land it had next to the factory. The new wide format production centre is already on double shift working.
The new P5 350HS is the first in Australia and one of only three in the world, all of which were installed in the same week. Matt Ashman CEO
of Durst Oceania says, “It is so good to see the new printer going into Australia, and into Avon Graphics, which has built its wide format business really well in recent years.”
The new Durst will give Avon
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Step up: Tate Hone with the new Durst P5 350 HS in the company’s Victoria print centre
a significant capacity boost, and importantly a dramatic uplift in turnaround times, to go with the quality of print. A 1.2 x 2.4 metre board can go through the Durst in 20 seconds. It will produce 700 sqm an hour, with three quarter automation and auto sheet stacking. Hone said, “We wanted auto unload as this means we will only need a single operator to run the machine.”
Ashman says, “The speed, quality and versatility are what sets the Durst P5 350 HS apart. The speed is more than double the existing P5 350, and it prints at 1200dpi in 7 picolitre drops, giving unbeatable quality. That means fine quality backlits, and Hapt images too for an oil painting like look”
With such a hungry machine Ashman says its versatility will enable printers to optimise productivity. He says, “You can print sheet to stack, or roll-to-roll, or multi-roll, you can even have a Fotoba cutter inline to print roll- to-stack.” The Avon machine is a hybrid printer, with sheet-to-stack
that can also operate as roll-to-roll, with Durst guaranteeing overnight unattended printing.
The P5 350HS is on the same platform as the Durst P5 350, P5 210, P5 250 WT (the water based printer) and P5 Tex, the textile printer. The new P5 350 HS uses less power, and
is Greenguard certified, with all inks manufactured to Durst specifications.
It is driven by the Durst workflow, which in Avon’s case just drives the Durst printer, but which can be expanded to drive all third-party printers.
Ashman says, “Avon has built a business and a reputation on delivering a quality product to schedule. The new Durst P5 350 HS will enable it to build on that reputation, and provide the market with superb quality print in rapid-fire time.”
Investment in Australian print
is always a good sign for the whole industry, especially when companies with the quality credentials of Avon and Durst are involved. The new Durst P5 350 HS at Avon Graphics should be good news for all. 21
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