Month: February 2016

The recent Irish Print Awards saw Addprint Ltd win the Luxury Packaging Printer of the Year award for its cosmetic beauty box project for Bourjois Paris, which it printed on its recently installed Mimaki CJV300 printer/cutter.
Based in the Dublin area, Addprint Ltd is a company that has excelled in the cosmetic PoS market and the recent Irish Print Awards has seen the company rewarded for its outstanding print performance. The cosmetic beauty box that was produced for Bourjois Paris was created by printing the exterior of the box with its recently acquired Mimaki CJV300-160 printer-cutter and Managing Director, Robert Doyle explains the reason for the purchase; “Our choice to invest in the Mimaki CJV300 was threefold. The quality of the print is exceptional and we need that guarantee because a large amount of the work we do is close-up Point of Sale displays. The CJV300 also gives us great colour vibrancy and the colour matching from one print to another is superb which is crucial for the bright colour consistency required with cosmetic brands. We also wanted a printer that was easy to use. Our previous solvent printer required two people to load & unload but the new Mimaki CJV300 is a one man job and we can leave it unattended, which makes great business sense.”
The Mimaki CJV300 was supplied by authorised Mimaki reseller Reprocentre, who were also involved in the Irish Print Awards through sponsorship of one of the categories, as Sales Director Eoin Honan describes; “We think it’s important to celebrate and support the printing industry in Ireland and have been sponsors of the Large Format Digital Printer of the Year award for some time, so we were delighted that one of our own customers had won an award; it’s well deserved and Addprint has produced some impressive stuff.”
Winning an Irish Print Awards isn’t the only excitement within the ranks at Addprint; “We’ll shortly be moving to a new ‘Digital Print House’,” reveals Doyle. “We’ve been working on our new premises since last year and soon we’ll be able to showcase the many fantastic Point of Sale materials and products we can supply. It’s an exciting time for the company.”
Further information about Addprint is available via its website www.addprint.ie and its Twitter account @addprint_ie. Further information about Reprocentre and its products and services can be found at www.gpmi.ie

The smart visual solutions company – Dublin-based IQ Group recently added a Mimaki JV300-160 and CG-160FXII to its portfolio of printing hardware through authorised Mimaki reseller, Reprocentre, and the company is delighted with the investment.
The IQ Group is a vibrant company in every sense of the word. From the vivid and high quality print it produces, the positive energy and growth it’s experienced since it formed 5 years ago, and even through to the dynamic team and bright and quirky premises; it’s a colourful company. So it’s not surprising that, when they decided to expand their hardware portfolio, the Mimaki JV300-160 solvent printer was befitting of a place in the company’s print room.
“Quality is key to IQ,” explains one of the company’s Directors, Gary Upton. “The Mimaki JV300 provides great print quality and continuity of colour every time, regardless of changes in temperature, giving us the ability to colour match perfectly. We’re a reactive company; we offer a fast turnaround for our customers and the JV300 fits right in here giving us speed and flexibility. We’ve been really impressed.”
IQ, or Image Quest as it’s formally known, originally started out as a print management service and signage company, but quickly evolved to incorporate in-house print production to make them more cost effective, offer faster turnaround times and give their customers more security and confidentiality. “We offer the complete workflow in-house,” continues Upton. “We have a creative design studio, a highly-productive print department and a team of installation experts, so we can guarantee a premium service and products every time. We do a vast amount of contract work and we need to be consistent on every level, including superior print output, which is exactly what we get with the JV300.”
IQ made the investment in the Mimaki JV300 through authorised Mimaki reseller; Reprocentre as its Sales Director, Eoin Honan describes. “We’ve provided a variety of hardware and materials for IQ over the last few years, but when they came to us looking for something to increase their productivity without compromising on quality or colour gamut we recommended the Mimaki JV300 solvent printer. It is super-fast and the SS21 solvent inks mean beautiful bright blocks of colour aren’t an issue. We also supplied a Mimaki bulk-ink system (MBIS) with the JV300 which gives IQ higher production levels by running the printer overnight and unattended on long runs.”
Further information about IQ Group is available via its website www.iqgroup.ie. Further information about Reprocentre and its products and services can be found at  www.gpmi.ie. Full details of Mimaki’s product portfolio is available via its Irish and UK distributor, Hybrid Services Ltd at www.hybridservices.co.uk.