Fine Print has installed a Zund G3 L-2500 cutting machine to expand the capacity of its display department, an addition viewed by Prime Minster David Cameron when he visited the Oxfordshire print company last month.
The Zund G3 is part of a larger investment made recently by Fine Print which also includes Heidelberg XL75 and HP Indigo 7800 printers and the appointment of three new apprentices.
The G3 was installed this summer to take the business's display department to “the next stage” because, as managing director Dan Bakewell explained, the team had previously been hand-cutting posters, panels and stickers. Additionally, Fine Print's litho department is using the G3 to produce prototypes, a process previously outsourced.
"Out of all the investments we've made recently, the Zund is the one that has really changed our business," said Bakewell. "It's taken us into new areas and the throughput is incredible – we've significantly reduced turnaround times." Fine Print invited David Cameron, MP for Witney, to its premises in September to see how a local business is succeeding following the recession. Fine Print ran a demonstration on the Zund G3, cutting pre-printed pieces of a three-dimensional rocket centrepieces made specifically for the visit.
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