Australian trade finisher, Avon Graphics, is
offering customers a greatly enhanced laminating service following the
installation of a Compact 105 TPHS from UK manufacturer Autobond. The
new laminator joins an Autobond water-based model at the company’s
Melbourne premises, which is one of three sites operated by Avon
Graphics in Australia.
“We specialise in embellishment services such as foil stamping,
embossing and die cutting, rather than straight binding,” says managing
director and owner Trevor Hone. “Laminating has always been an
important part of the business and the demands for this process have
gradually outstripped the capacity of our older Autobond machine.
“The new Compact 105 TPHS gives us even greater flexibility to turn
around quickly a wide variety of work. Although it was delivered only a
couple of months ago it has already been used on a huge selection of
stocks, sizes and run lengths. The Heidelberg feed head has proved
particularly effective at feeding different papers at high speed. Since
it was commissioned the Compact 105 TPHS has performed extremely well
and we’ve had very good back up from Autobond and the local dealer,
Graph-Pak.”
Tom Ralph is managing director of Graph-Pak, which took on the Autobond
dealership in Australia last year. “The Autobond laminators have become
one of Graph-Pak’s most successful products,” he says. “The robust
construction, ease of use and high productivity of the Autobond
laminators has put them in a class of their own.
“The fast make-ready means that they are suitable for short runs, while
the throughput on longer runs is phenomenal. In addition, Autobond’s
MINI series offers an extremely small footprint and we are finding that
many printers are able to install a MINI laminator, where previously
they have not been able to fit a machine into the building.”
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