DYSS cuts through production time and costs
DYSS digital cutters have made it to the top of print-service-providers wish lists recently, with firms choosing significant investment as a route to driving profits.
Wednesday, 24 Aug 2016 12:09 GMT
Thames Graphics’ DYSS X7 2230C digital cutter from AG/CAD cutting music festival signage
One company firmly committed to investment is Tamworth-based Daytona Visual. As part of a £700,000 spend, the firm installed a DYSS X5-1630C digital die cutter from AG/CAD, hoping to improve process control as well as throughput, whilst reducing costs.
Technical director Oliver Wassall explains: “We have two platen presses and we use an external supplier to manufacture the cutting formes. However, our die cutters can’t always facilitate the large format sheet sizes available on our large format digital flatbeds that can be up to 3m by 1.6m.
“To make full use of the bed size, we had to get large cutting formes produced externally and then send these and the large format sheets to an external supplier for cutting.
"The sheet sizes and quantities could often make this a logistical problem that disrupted our workflow. This is why we invested in the DYSS digital die cutter. It has improved lead-times, throughput and work-flow whilst giving us more flexibility.”
To reduce our time and costs, we wanted to print direct to substrate and this is why we acquired the Jetrix”
According to Wassall, the benefits of the DYSS X5 on the cost of production have been substantial: “We used to store anything from 200 to 400 cutting formes at any one time. This is now less than 100 tools. This is saving factory floor space in the region of 4m by 10m, and this extra space has been added to our 'finishing' area.”
Thames Graphics is another firm that works to keep pace with the trends and developments of the large-format print industry. Its recent investment in a Jetrix KX7R flatbed printer and a DYSS X7 2230C digital cutter from AG/CAD has greatly reduced production time for the business, as company director, Alex Povey, explains: "We found most of our time was spent printing self-adhesive vinyls and then mounting them onto various substrates.
“To reduce our time and costs, we wanted to print direct to substrate and this is why we acquired the Jetrix. Cutting large boards was also an increasing challenge which meant we were either turning work away or subcontracting it out to external suppliers. We knew that a digital cutting machine would open new doors for us."
With the DYSS cutters reducing labour requirement and eliminating bottlenecks, it cannot be long before both companies achieve significant return-on-investment.
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