Apprintable has added a Morgana Laminator Pro 450 to the growing list of equipment it is running out of its Wembley headquarters.
The company, which moved into new premises earlier this year, has revamped its arsenal over recent months, installing an Easycoat Gluing System, purchased from Vivid Laminating Technologies, an Oki Pro A3 White Toner printer from Amaya UK, a Sawgrass SG1000 A3 printer it received via The Magic Touch and a Ricoh C5300s with Fiery RIP, purchased through X-Pres OnDemand. It also already runs a Canny P50 Automatic Strapping Machine and an Aerocut Prime, both supplied by Morgana.
Managing director Peter Haddad explained the most recent installation. ‘We were spending a fair bit on outsourcing lamination,’ he said. ‘It made good business sense to keep that money in-house, and bring control of job back into our own hands. Because of the investment in the Ricoh press last year, we’ve been able to bring a lot more production in-house and bringing laminating back here was the obvious next step.
‘We had a small Chinese manufactured machine most recently that we were using for very urgent jobs, but that was a very manual process, and the unit was also difficult to use. It got the job done for the very short run work, but the quality does isn’t even close to that from the Morgana unit.’
The Laminator Pro 450 is a high-pile automatic feed laminator featuring an integrated compressor and pneumatic system for high quality print lamination up to 450mm working width. It can achieve speeds of up to 1875 of SRA3 sheets per hour and is marketed as ‘ideal for the on-demand printer.’
Commenting on why he opted for the machine, the MD added, ‘We bought our AeroCut Prime from Morgana just before Christmas. It was ordered and delivered within a week. I was so impressed by Morgana and their focus on what the client needs, as well as their ability to assist us so speedily. I can just trust those guys.
‘I was impressed by the fact that they didn’t want to sell me something that I didn’t need, such as an higher spec version of the Prime. I felt that I could really trust them and that they cared about my business – their representative used to be a litho printer. We then bought a Canny P50 bander from Morgana following the Prime purchase. It made good business sense to go back to Morgana for this latest purchase.
‘I did look at other laminating products, just to confirm my selection. There was one with a separate feeding unit – but that gave me doubts because I have seen disconnected systems fail badly. It made sense to stick with Morgana as our finishing machine provider. They gave a fantastic demo of the product, and that gave me a lot of confidence in the purchase.’
