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News Release from: Fujifilm Graphic Systems | Subject: Acuity HD 2504 UV flatbed printer
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 July 2008
UV Flatbed Printer Helps Organic
Business Growth
Fujifilm has installed digital printing and wide format printing devices at City Printing in Youngstown, Ohio (USA) to expand the company's capabilities.
City Printing is a commercial printer that has been growing at a rate of 10 per cent - 20 per cent a year for the last 10-15 years The latest additions of technology include Fujifilm's Acuity HD 2504 UV flatbed printer
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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When City Printing's clients started looking for wide-format printing of window graphics, floor graphics, banners and trade show displays about four years ago, the company began deploying wide format printers.
Earlier this year 2008 it added Fujifilm's Acuity HD 2504 UV flatbed printer, which offers full-bleed capability on prints to 48 inches wide and 96 inches long.
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City Printing's Joseph Valentini explained: "With the Acuity and cutter we're in a good position to fulfil all of our customers' needs, whether it's backlit signs or trade show booth applications.
Clients are very pleased with the quality and the machine is quite smooth.
We run a lot of different materials on it, including scrim, satin, backlit materials and vinyls.
One minute we'll be doing backlit material for trade show booths or for signs, the next minute we're doing scrim for banners that will hang on fences at baseball fields.
We can also do a high-end print where the client is looking for the artistry and we produce a lot of different things with that machine.
It's a good versatile system for us." And he added: "My first thought about Fujifilm is that the company's products work and are consistent.
We're under a lot of pressure in the printing industry, so what we don't need are problems and we haven't had problems.
When we were using Fujifilm's film it was great and now, their plates are great.
To me, Fujifilm provides a very solid product line.
Basically, when you get in your car you want it to start and that's what Fujifilm does in terms of our equipment." Fujifilm said that with the new printing technology City Printing has developed in to a one-stop shop that obtains business it was not getting before from its current clients.
Joseph Valentini said: "I attribute our growth to the diversification of our equipment.
In our market, we're unique and our portfolio of equipment is unique.
We have a five-colour press with coater, two-colour perfecting presses, two-colour Heidelberg Quickmaster presses, die-cutters and equipment in the digital and wide format world.
When a person comes to us with an order, whether it's 50,000 full-colour brochures, or a full-colour graduation invitation, we'll handle any of that." And he added: "We come in every day trying to make sure that we're doing the best job we can to service and grow with the client base we have.
We've been doing this a long time and we really care about our clients and our print jobs.
We're old school because we have the mentality that we want to do things right.
Our new digital machines allow us to do that.".
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