Leading Swiss Signmaker Invests In A Highly Industrial Agfa Jeti Tauro H3300 UHS LED Inkjet System

PRESS ROOM

19 Jun

Written By Debbie Mckeegan

Creaplot AG from Münchenstein near Basel is one of the leading advertising technicians in Switzerland.

An industrial high-performance inkjet system was procured more than ten years ago.

As a replacement, they invested in an Agfa Jeti Tauro H3300 UHS LED last autumn.

Agfa appropriately calls the high-performance machine “the beast”. For Creaplot AG, it is an important tool for securing its own future.

“Creaplot AG is an innovative printing company with its core business in the areas of advertising, lettering and graphics as well as print jobs for large runs and customized one-off productions.”

Family

Although Creaplot AG has thirty employees, it is a downright “classic” SME family business. “Classic” here means that you work for your own company, develop it and prefer to reinvest in the company rather than in a Ferrari.

No fewer than five Baders are part of the Creaplot AG team! Daniel Bader and his two brothers took over the company from their father Markus Bader.

One can speak of a kind of “dream constellation”: Markus Bader, despite having reached senior age, is still fully committed and the company continues to benefit from the know-how he has built up over many years.

Why ‘The Beast‘?

This brings us to the “main player” here, the Jeti Tauro H3300 LED UHS from Agfa. It comes with a story too.

Daniel Bader: “Even my father had the strategy of always being a little different from the others. He deliberately looked for market areas where not many others were. Litho production via the Misomex systems was one such example, we were among the first to focus on desktop publishing and were considered pioneers in the CtF and CtP business.Yet new technologies are always associated with a certain risk and also a high level of commitment. If you want to be at the forefront, you also have to be able to deal with the corresponding teething problems. But if you do it right, you can reap some sort of reward over a period of time. So it’s no secret when I tell you that we’ve been earning very well for a number of years and have thus been able to develop the freedom for future investments. That’s why we were able to invest in a highly industrial inkjet system for advertising more than ten years ago. We were moving and are moving in a market segment where there are not that many providers in Switzerland. There are many advertising companies that work with wide-format systems and provide a challenging competition, but when it gets highly industrial, these companies simply can no longer keep up with the large systems economically. After around nine years of use, it was about time to replace the system that had been in use up until then. We were looking for a highly industrial, high-performance wide-format system in the supplier market and at the end of the evaluation, the Tauro H3300 UHS LED ideally met our requirements.”

Tauro H3300 UHS LED

Creaplot AG is the first to use the system in Switzerland. UHS stands for “Ultra High Speed” or specifically a printing speed of 905 m²/h.

As a user, you can opt for the four-color or six-color version. Creaplot AG opted for the latter option.

The Tauro H3300 is a so-called hybrid system, so it can process both flexible and rigid materials.

The machine is available in various loading and unloading configurations. Creaplot AG works with three-quarters automation: a manual loading table combined with automatic alignment and transport, as well as automatic unloading.

The Tauro H3300 UHS LED is a logical further development of the Tauro H3300 LED, Agfa’s flagship in the inkjet multi-pass wide-format printing market, which has been available for several years.

Additional print heads (a total of 80) were installed in the even more powerful UHS model, and at the same time the loading and unloading technology (including substrate alignment and double gantry) was further developed for even higher throughput.

Other innovations: Ink tanks that hold 20 liters so that you can produce longer without refilling.

The reinforced gantry with the more powerful linear motors compared to the standard models prevent vibrations and ensures a precise print image. A patented, extended vacuum zone ensures that even thin cardboard can be processed perfectly.