14th March 2018
Jet Press 720S: Route One Print
One of the UK’s fastest-growing trade printers, Route One Print, looks to the Jet Press 720S to increase the quality and variety of business cards it can offer its customers.
JAMES KINSELLA
CO-FOUNDER
Customer:
Route One Print
Location:
Rotherham, UK
Fujifilm products:
Jet Press 720S, Superia plates
Type of work:
Wide variety of digital, lithographic and wide format printing services; including business cards, booklets, posters, labels and flyers.
On the fast track
Forming part of the Bluetree Group, Route One Print is a Virgin Fast track 100 company that operates from a 9,000m2 production facility near Rotherham and employs 260 people. Offering digital, lithographic and wide format print products, it invested in Fujifilm’s Jet Press 720S to produce ultra-high quality business cards, with a personal flourish.
Adding flexibility
Business co-founder, James Kinsella: “Business cards are a high-value product. They’re often the first impression a potential customer might get, so they need to look right. We print a lot of them for customers and historically we have always litho-produced them to achieve the level of quality our customers expect. The problem with producing them like this though is that we lack the flexibility to vary the finishes from one job to the next – offering spot UV finishes for instance, or rounded corners. We wanted a digital press that would give us the flexibility to add distinctive touches like this much more easily, but crucially, the quality had to be at least as good as litho.”
Unmatched quality
Business Co-founder, Adam Carnell: “We’ve put a number of digital presses to the test on this task, but we had struggled to find anything that didn’t require us to sacrifice the quality we were used to for digital flexibility. The Jet Press 720S had been on our radar for some time; we’ve watched its development closely and at drupa 2016 we got a good look at it up close. That visit convinced us that this machine could give us the added flexibility we needed – without any compromise on quality.”
Partnership for the future
Kinsella and Carnell are clear on what the future of print looks like: “It’s digital and it’s automated,” says Kinsella. “We’re always looking to the future and we see this investment in the Jet Press 720S as a very important stepping stone on that road. We have been a Fujifilm plates customer for around eighteen months and have a lot of respect for Fujifilm as a company. It is a great brand with an excellent support network, as well as offering some of the best technology out there, so the company is well placed to support us in getting the very best out of the Jet Press 720S.”
