Mayer Australia has moved into larger premises and brought its four-colour work in-house after installing its first digital press.

The Sydney firm moved from Silverwater to Eastern Creek in August. The factory also houses parent company Bantex Group, which relocated from a separate site.

Mayer began 2013 by investing in two SwissQprint machines – Australia's first Oryx flatbed and a Summa F-Series cutter.

Sales manager Gail Wilkinson said the Oryx had taken over some work that had previously been screenprinted and had also taken over four-colour jobs that had been outsourced.

She told ProPrint that the Oryx combined the flexibility of digital with very high quality and had also expanded the range of substrates on which Mayer could print, such as polypropylene, PVC, acrylic, timber, tiles, glass, bookcloths and flexible banner materials.

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"It would be saving us time and money, but it's probably also giving us a lot more to work with. We're able to work with agencies and design houses to come up with a product that suits rather than just a standard product," she said.

"We come up with a concept, we design, then we print and we manufacture a product from a simple binder or wallet to a complex presentation box or point-of-sale holder, all under the one roof. Most of what we do is all done in-house. There's very little that has to leave our premises."

Wilkinson said quality was the main reason the 35-staff firm had invested in SwissQprint. Flatbeds often print signage that is viewed from a distance, but Mayer uses the Oryx for items that are viewed from up close, so the quality needs to be higher, she said. That in turn allows Mayer to justify higher margins, she added.

"It offers almost photographic quality work, so it's something a lot of designers really love," she said.

SwissQprint's local distributor, Positive Camtec, said the Oryx offered reliability, versatility and a good price-performance ratio.

"Most clients need to print onto a wide variety of flexible and rigid materials on the one machine, and the Oryx easily accommodates for that," said sales & marketing manager Adriano Gut.

"The combination of highest print quality, great ink adhesion on a vast variety of stocks, and the offering of white and varnish next to the standard colours suits Mayer Australia's broad product offering to the marketplace."

Gut told ProPrint that Positive Camtec had sold three Oryx systems in Australia, "along with many Impala and Nyala units".

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