Sydney based Rip Graphics is looking to amp up its flatbed production, investing in a new Océ Arizona 660 XT flatbed printer.

Brian Bollard, owner of Rip says, “We just installed it, it should be running by tomorrow.

“We will be able to do more flatbed work. In the past, we were losing larger jobs, we could not do anything larger than around 2.4 or 2.5m. We can now produce work larger than 3m, which is what is needed for a lot of display jobs, a lot of companies are after large signs.

“We can get work done quicker. The new press allows standard sheets to be set up while it is still printing. A lot of printers out there do not allow that and you can lose two or three minutes between each set, just replacing sheets. We will now have faster throughput.

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“We had an older version of the machine, the Océ 330. The support we had from the Océ team convinced me, they were immensely helpful. It was a great device, with high quality, but it was too small and too slow, we needed to upgrade.

“The print quality is great on Arizona. We invested in the 360 to get into flatbed printing around two years ago.”

Rip Graphics is a sign, wrap and display printer which has been running for more than 25 years, offering both a commercial and trade service. The company also invested in a new Zund cutter around the end of last year.

Bollard says, “It is just me and another guy, we will add another staff member when needed but everything is mostly automated. For now, we are keeping it lean.

“We are looking forward to using the new flatbed, it is all exciting.”

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