Inkjet printer and engraver maker Roland Digital Group has opened a new Creative Centre at its UK headquarters in Cleveden, near Bristol. The centre demonstrates the ‘money making applications’ of the company’s full range of digital printing, engraving and 3D milling technology.
Everything from the centre’s ceiling tiles to the windows has been printed using Roland wide format technology, while the shelves are adorned with examples of high value applications produced with its engraving, printing and milling technologies, from personalised gifts to 3D prototypes, dental crowns and bridges. An eye-catching feature is the ceiling, where every panel is a different colour taken from the Roland Colour System Library.
The company said it is inviting commercial printers and sign & display businesses who are ‘searching for their next big idea’ to see high-value applications such as personalised wallpapers, metallic signs, printed roller blinds, personalised sportswear, vehicle wraps, packaging prototypes and precisely engraved trophies, tags and gifts. The range of markets represented includes jewellery, packaging, labelling, textile printing, promotional gift, engraving, dental, funeral and 3D modelling.
Joe Wigzell, Roland’s Creative Centre and Roland Academy manager, said: ‘The Creative Centre is an inspirational place for the innovative and interesting – as well as the more classic applications our equipment is capable of producing. Visitors may already have a Roland and be seeking their next best-seller, or they may be investigating adding another string to their bow with easy to use engraving technology. Whatever they’re looking for, nowhere else in the UK is the massive versatility of digital technology better represented in a single place than the Roland Creative Centre.
‘The focus is on applications rather than the technology with the aim that when customers see it, they believe it and hopefully are inspired to achieve it. There is a lot of crossover between Roland technologies. It makes sense for sign and display printers, for example, to explore ways to diversify by investing in an engraver – it’s still personalisation and customers looking for corporate branded shirts could also require an engraved award, a sign for the door, or an engraved pen for a thank you gift. Roland believes in the power of sharing ideas. I’m always happy to show people around the Roland Creative Centre and they’re welcome to bring along files for testing or indeed to showcase their own finished masterpieces.’
The company said the centre is an ‘on-going project’ that will be added to as customers share their latest ideas and creations on the Roland Forum (www.rolandforum.co.uk) or through competitions such as the Roland Creative Awards, which took place earlier this year.
Contact: www.rolanddg.co.uk
