Case Study: What gives Fred Soar the edge in print
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Soar Print: A history of innovation
Soar Print is something of a legend in the New Zealand print industry. Established in 1920 as a letterpress business, Soar Print has transformed over the decades, riding the wave of the offset boom and now establishing itself – with the help of Canon Production Printing – as one of the country’s leading digital print innovators.
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“Soar Print had been a predominantly offset business for many years, but about 14 years ago we invested in our first digital technologies.
“Today, offset still represents 55% of our business, but there’s no question that the digital side of the business is growing, year-on-year, supported by outstanding digital print solutions like the i300.”
– Fred Soar, Managing Director, Soar Print
“With the i300, you put white paper in at one end, and you get the finished product, in collated sets, off the other end, ready for shrink-wrapping. It’s a single-pass process. That slashes lead times and gives us an enormous advantage.
“This integrated ‘end to end’ production minimises handling, virtually eliminates errors and delivers significant productivity improvements and cost savings, so we can deliver more products, more quickly and, with a lower cost per sheet, deliver better value for money without compromising our own profitability.”
– Fred Soar, Managing Director, Soar Print
“It makes repeats so easy – there’s no chasing colour; we don’t even need to check a previous print run any more. We are so confident that the colour on the job we produced a fortnight ago will be identical to what we produce today that we can just go ahead and print.”
“The i300 has put us into a whole new space where we can do up to 900K or even a million impressions a year, running all day, every day, and achieving our customers’ deadlines, with accurate colour, on time, every time. We’re very happy with the efficiencies we are getting out of the i300, and I can only see us producing more and more.”
– Fred Soar, Managing Director, Soar Print
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