Next Printing managing director Romeo Sanuri first saw the original Durst P5 350 press during a visit to Durst’s headquarters in Brixen, Italy in 2019 but decided then wasn’t the time to make the purchase.
Three years later, he is glad he waited because now the P5 350 has evolved into the P5 350 HS which means it can print at higher speeds and is now an even better fit for what was needed to meet growing demand at Next Printing.
After beginning the journey three ago, Sanuri returned to Europe this week and visited the FESPA Global Print Expo to finalise the deal.
He is now looking forward to the new press arriving to further bolster production capacity.
The new Durst will replace a P10 250 HS which Next Printing installed in 2014.
“I travelled to Brixen in 2019 looking at this machine but we didn’t get it then which turned out to be good timing because at that time it was in its first iteration and now this one is the high speed version. This will help speed up things for us, better up time is more critical than high volume,” Sanuri told Sprinter.
“This new P5 will predominantly handle our Re-Board production. We will be able to load 3m-wide material as a landscape so this will save a lot of time. This is also a very high quality machine and it will be better for our high end retail work. Before when we needed to print small print, we had to print on our roll to roll and then attach the print to a board so now we don’t have to do that.
“We also found printing the small text many pharmaceutical companies want so it can be readable was not so easy. The quality with this new P5 is much finer than our current one so this will no longer be an issue.
“We are getting the quality and the speed – before if you needed to use high speed the quality would suffer, but now that doesn’t happen.”
The Durst P5 350 HS is a hybrid solution for roll and board printing of up to 3.5m and reaches productivity levels of up to 650 sqm/h. Fast media change, easy maintenance handling and full safety render the printing process as more efficient.
Earlier in the week, Easy Signs finalised the deal on two Durst P5 210 units.
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