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WIDE FORMAT & POSTPRESS NEWS

Route 1 brings in EFI for wide- Koenig & Bauer
in revamp
format refresh ing its structure into two seg-
Koenig & Bauer is simplify-

ments, will dramatically slim
Route 1 Print, the trade track record, flexibility to down its board, and has
wing of Bluetree Group, has meet our clients demands recruited Heidelberg’s pack-
overhauled its wide-format and most importantly was aging chief for a new senior
department with a raft of kit able to achieve the high role.
from EFI. The German press manu-
Installing an EFI Vutek quality expectations that we facturer had flagged a “persis-
Q3R roll-to-roll and H5 had set out,” he told tently challenging market
hybrid flatbed over late sum- Printweek. environment” in its Q3
mer and autumn 2024, the “Brands like Amazon have
company has now added a set consumer expectations results earlier this month.
FabriVu 340i+ dye-sublima- around turnaround times Today (29 November),
tion printer to round out the CEO Dr Andreas Pleßke said
company’s offering with The 3.2m EFI Vutek H5 launched into action in late summer 2024 and now the majority of the he had personally initiated
flags and other textile appli- work we now produce for the changes, in close consul-
cations. really good fit.” ing director Mark Young. our resellers is sold on either tation with the group’s super-
“We’ve been really The new machines have “HP Scitexes proved a a same-day or next working visory board.
impressed with them. It’s replaced Route 1’s previous great platform for us, but the day dispatch. The equip- “The Group’s top priority
been a big leap forward for roster of two HP Scitex technology has moved on ment we’ve selected enables
us,” said James Kinsella, FB11000s, which served the and we need to invest to stay us to offer a high level of is to align itself with its cus-
Bluetree Group co-CEO. company well, themselves tomers and markets and to
“We typically do shorter succeeding a previous gen- at the front. When we were product customisation while streamline decision-making
runs with a very fast turna- eration of Scitex FB7600s, looking at options the EFI maintaining industry lead- paths within its business
round, and they’ve been a according to Route 1 manag- equipment had a proven ing turnaround times.” units,” he stated.
Dayfold ups ante with wide- Liyu reveals two new

format wing partnerships

Wide-format printer and
Dorset creative print firm cutter manufacturer Liyu has
Dayfold has entered the revealed new partnerships
wide-format print market with two major UK wide-for-
with a new HP Latex- mat kit dealers, Bromley-
powered wide-format wing. headquartered Perfect
Opening up production Colours and Atech in
space in its 6,000 sqm Welwyn Garden City.
warehousing and office in Only revealed publicly at
late September, Dayfold the end of November, the
invested in an HP Latex Entered the market with new HP Latex-powered wide-format wing deals were signed in early
R2000 hybrid printer and September, making Atech Deal with two new companies
1.8m Summa F1832 flatbed duce it. For such a signifi- the major contract, Dayfold and Perfect Colours the only
cutter/router, taking up cant contract, the company has managed to fill up the suppliers of the Turkish- UK, and they needed to feel
work on a £250,000 con- decided to invest in its own Latex’s remaining shifts by designed Liyu kit to the UK some sense of security and
tract straight away. kit rather than outsource bringing existing out- market outside of Liyu’s UK support for the equipment
“We have one particular the work as it normally sourced work in-house and HQ near Ormskirk.
customer that effectively would have done. “In this very cautious they are selling.
opened the door for us,” “We also wanted to be appointing a new salesper- industry, the fact that we’ve Both Atech and Perfect
explained Lee Carpenter, able to supplement our son to canvass existing cli- managed to bring a relatively Colours have been dubbed
client engagement director existing offering, including ents for large-format work. unheard-of brand into the ‘premium resellers’.
at Dayfold. rigid box making, litho and The new wide-format busi- UK and make a huge impact “Premium resellers to us are
He told Printweek that digital print with large for- ness is projected to turn over feels very good,” Eddie companies who have shown
the longstanding customer mat,” Carpenter told Tucker, managing director of
had decided to buy retail Printweek. up to £500,000 per year, Liyu UK told Printweek. incredible customer care and
signage, and asked Dayfold With about half the pro- with Carpenter aiming to “Atech and Perfect service to the industry,”
if it might be able to pro- duction week covered by grow sales further. Colours are big players in the Tucker explained.
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