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Founded in 2000 and now with about 50 employees operating in a 35,000 square foot factory, greater Toronto area-based Prismaflex Canada, a subsidiary of French company Prismaflex International and one of the largest providers of display graphics printing in Canada, produces a wide range of display graphics products. Prismaflex recently acquired an EFI VUTEk 5r+ roll-to-roll LED inkjet printer from Electronics For Imaging, Inc., to update their production fleet and boost their productivity.
“Our production platform consisted of several smaller printers, a latex printer, a flatbed and three 3-meter VUTEks,” says Stéfane Comeau, Prismaflex VP. “We also had an aging 5-meter printer that was no longer being supported by the manufacturer that we needed to replace. We couldn’t get parts for it anymore, and in doing our due diligence, we saw that the quality and speed of 5-meter display graphics printers has improved considerably.”
Comeau notes that Prismaflex has been a long-time EFI customer, both in Canada and worldwide, adding, “We print 16 hours per day, five days a week, and we needed a reliable printer that would print the same quality from the first to the 80th hour of the week.”
The 5.2-meter (205-inch) wide EFI VUTEk 5r+ roll-to-roll LED inkjet printer is capable of handling a wide variety of flexible substrates, and offers a better speed/quality ratio than other printers in its class with production speeds up to 5,242 square feet per hour and true resolution up to 1200 dpi. Its advanced LED curing technology significantly reduces the amount of energy consumed compared with traditional UV or latex printers.
Adding the VUTEk 5r+ printer has boosted Prismaflex’s trade business, because it enables high quality product with a faster time to market. “With the extra speed and capacity,” Comeau says, “we are now taking on work that we would have had to pass on before, and with the same number of employees.”
“Our production platform consisted of several smaller printers, a latex printer, a flatbed and three 3-meter VUTEks,” says Stéfane Comeau, Prismaflex VP. “We also had an aging 5-meter printer that was no longer being supported by the manufacturer that we needed to replace. We couldn’t get parts for it anymore, and in doing our due diligence, we saw that the quality and speed of 5-meter display graphics printers has improved considerably.”
Comeau notes that Prismaflex has been a long-time EFI customer, both in Canada and worldwide, adding, “We print 16 hours per day, five days a week, and we needed a reliable printer that would print the same quality from the first to the 80th hour of the week.”
The 5.2-meter (205-inch) wide EFI VUTEk 5r+ roll-to-roll LED inkjet printer is capable of handling a wide variety of flexible substrates, and offers a better speed/quality ratio than other printers in its class with production speeds up to 5,242 square feet per hour and true resolution up to 1200 dpi. Its advanced LED curing technology significantly reduces the amount of energy consumed compared with traditional UV or latex printers.
Adding the VUTEk 5r+ printer has boosted Prismaflex’s trade business, because it enables high quality product with a faster time to market. “With the extra speed and capacity,” Comeau says, “we are now taking on work that we would have had to pass on before, and with the same number of employees.”