The Bath franchise of printing firm, Minuteman Press, has started the New Year with the acquisition of a Valiani Optima V 250 flat-bed cutting table purchased from Morgana Systems.
According to Morgana Systems, a key feature of the Italian manufactured Optima V range is the ‘patented tool change mechanism’, which allows tools to be changed in less than 30 seconds. This allows the user to move swiftly between cutting, creasing, perforating, embossing, plotting, writing and drawing. In addition, the machine features a new fold-away clamping mechanism, and can also deal with multiple sheets.
Apparently, the machines ‘minimise waste’ and are suitable for a wide variety of applications, including frame mount-board cutting, boxes and displays, contour cutting, embossing, stickers, as well making prototypes, marketing products and mock-ups.
Dave Dixon, sales and marketing director at Minuteman Press Bath, said, “We needed something that was going to provide us with a quality short-run in-house cutting facility. Sending such work out just adds time and cost to a job, in addition to the fact that you lose control over production. After visiting the Valiani factory in Italy, the Valiani Optima V 250 ticked all of the boxes for us.”
He added, “The potential of such a product is limited only by the imagination – and our in-house design team have very vivid imaginations!”
Minuteman Press Bath, a Xerox Premier Partner, prints with a variety of Xerox digital presses, including the Xerox 1000i, as well as HP Latex and HP Inkjet wide format machines.
Commenting on the purchase, Ray Hillhouse, vice president offline business at Morgana Systems, said, “We are delighted that Minuteman Press Bath has become the first UK business to see the potential offered by the largest format Optima 250 cutting table. These machines offer a whole host of possibilities for printers and their customers. Graphic designers get very excited about the possibilities that are on offer, and the young team at Minuteman Press are already coming up with new and interesting applications.”
Pictured above from left to right: Dave Dixon, Sales and Marketing Director and David Ghent, Managing Director at Minuteman Press, Bath
