Photo canvases from Photobox printed on an Epson SureColor SC-S60600 printer
The company has installed the new generation printers alongside its existing fleet of 16 SureColor SC-S50600 printers in its UK factory to meet the growing demand for personalised photo canvases.
James Lawrence-Jones, group technical innovation director, said, ‘Since 2013 demand for photo canvases has grown by 70% year on year and we have expanded our production facilities to keep pace and deliver the very best quality and service to our customers. We wanted an ink-efficient printer that would deliver great quality at higher speeds and with maximum reliability and the new SC-S60600 ticks all the boxes.’
Mr Jones continued, ‘Our manufacturing challenges are unusual because we have to be able to print, finish and despatch a large number of canvases on a day, over 12,000 individual canvases a day 24/7 at Christmas for example, and we have to rely on the very best production equipment to meet our high quality standards and tight deadlines.’
Customers at Photobox have a choice of three canvas grades, 17 different sizes up to 30 x 40 inch and rectangular, square and panoramic formats. Images received online are automatically nested prior to printing in full-roll batches on a SureColor printer. The rolls are then loaded on to an Esko Kongsberg cutting table, automatically cut to size and finished.
‘The SureColor printers are excellent and we work them hard around the clock producing stunning images for our customers. It’s a high stress environment and we need maximum production uptime so when we need it, we have great support from Epson and Rockwell, Epson’s appointed service provider,’ said Mr Jones.
Richard Barrow, senior product manager at Epson Europe concluded, ‘We have developed the new SureColor SC-S60600 printer to meet the quality, productivity, reliability and efficiency needs of demanding, high-volume customers, such as PhotoBox, and their experience confirms that this new model truly is a superb professional production printer.’
