After more than two years of extensive research locally and overseas, SOS found the Xeikon 5000 provided the best mix between flexibility in format and cost effective raw power of production for the A4, A3 and oversize markets.

SOS director Michael Schulz says the company is very excited about the installation and already developing applications for the Xeikon.

“There are so many opportunities, both for the large format as well as for the fast variable imaging engine,” says Schulz. “We already have customers asking when they can run jobs on the machine and we haven’t even promoted it.”

Xeikon Australia and New Zealand managing director, Warren Davy says SOS’s decision to go with a Xeikon 5000 heralds a new era for digital printing in Australia.

“They are the first major commercial offset company to seriously embrace the increasing growth potential and opportunity in the colour digital printing market that the latest generation of digital presses provide,” says Davey.

Installation of the machine will start late January with SOS expecting to be ready for full production a month later.

SOS Print & Media was founded 1976 and has grown to become one of the larger privately owned printing companies in Australia. SOS offers offset and digital printing as well as the full spectrum of bindery, finishing, warehousing, kitting and
distribution.

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