Saica Pack installs new Mimaki flatbed printer at Livingston site

CMYUK supplied Saica Pack with the Mimaki JFX200-2513EX UV LED Flatbed. It is the third Mimaki flatbed that CMYUK had supplied. The model has been installed at the firm’s central design facility in Manchester, while a second printed was installed at its Wigan site.

Matthew Pomorski, creative marketing manager at Saica Pack, UK and Ireland, said: “We utilise the Mimaki JFX200-2513EX primarily for product development. It is used to print directly on corrugated boards to help customers visualize packaging concepts. This can range from a single prototype to up to 100. It’s fantastic in the sense that it allows clients to improve their speed to market.”

Louise Morgan, Scotland region technical office manager added: “The set-up in Livingston was developed so we could create a real customer experience within the business. We’ll be able to run innovation days with the idea that the customer will spend a whole day with us, develop packaging solutions and leave with fully printed samples of the concepts we create on the same day. There are also customers who require very small runs of one-off products that fall below our minimum production order requirements. Mimaki allows us to offer small runs of one-off products for such requests. This increases the service level we can provide to our customers.

“The addition of this new technology to our business not only improves the service we can offer our customers but it has also been key in helping develop our designers. We have a lot of multi skilled talent within the team and this has allowed them all to branch into new areas of training and development that wasn’t possible before. With support and training from CMYUK we will be able to build our teams knowledge to get the best out of the machine and quality we can give to our customers.”