The “awesome” Indigos provide a level of technology unique to Darwin, said managing director Tony Coleman.

He is confident they will allow Coleman’s to pick up extra work that used to go interstate.

In the past, agencies had refused to consider Coleman’s after learning it didn’t have Indigos, he added.

He explained that although the Indigos hadn’t replaced any other machines, they would eventually “take a lot of work” off the company’s Heidelberg SM 52.

Coleman’s also operates two Heidelberg GTO 52s and a Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102.

The 43-staff operation has also become the first company in the territory to secure Sustainable Green Print (SGP) level two certification.

This will give it another point of difference from its Darwin rivals, said Peter Mansfield, general manager of member services at the Printing Industries Association of Australia.

“To my knowledge, Coleman’s Printing is the first printing company in the Northern Territory to achieve any formal environmental accreditation, which is a wonderful achievement,” he said.

Mansfield encouraged other companies to follow Coleman’s lead, as customers were increasingly demanding their printers have solid environmental credentials, which helped them reassure their own customers they had a green supply chain.

Coleman pointed to this as part of the reason he went down the SGP route.

“The feel-good factor would be the main one for me, but obviously the benefits that come with it from tendering on different work. There are certain clients that insist on these things now,” he said.

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