Kwik Kopy Bankstown has nearly doubled its volumes since February after the business invested in a new Konica Minolta C1100 colour printer. Speaking with the Australian Printer, Sean Weir owner of Kwik Kopy Bankstown says the ‘tough and diverse’ printing industry is going through a lot of changes and businesses need to adapt to new ways to survive.

Weir says, “Our investment in the new Konica Minolta C1100 colour printer has increased our volume from 65,000 clicks a month to more than a 100,000 clicks. “We are doing a lot more in-house rather than sending jobs out, so profit has increased, and speed of turnaround is much better.” He says while having the best equipment is vital for a business to succeed, the owners and staff must invest energy into the business to increase their client based, which is ‘equally important’. However, he says they need to do more to develop their client list to maintain workflow and sustain the business in this ‘tough’ environment, which digital is making more difficult. “A lot of people are down saying that print is dying, I don’t think so – there is heaps out there, if you want it you have to go and get it, it’s not going to come to you,” Weir says. He says because the new printer is air-fed not roll-fed, it handles all different substrates, has better colour management with ‘super quick’ registration and speed of 100/A4 colour sheets per minute and 53/A3 colour sheets per minute. The maximum paper capacity for the C1100 press is 13,890 sheets. Weir says the company has also taken advantage of new technology, which caters for faster turnarounds and less down time. “So now we can send the job straight on the system and it will print it for us, which means we don’t have to go through the prepress and setting up the job. It just does it for us, leading to less down time,” he says.

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