Mississauga-based Global Imaging has added a new Kongsberg i-XP 24 cutting table, sold through master distributor EskoArtwork, to boost its wide-format production capabilities.
Founded over 10 years ago to specialize in wide-format graphics, Global Imaging installed its first Kongsberg table, model i-XL, in 2008 to handle work produced on its new inkjet-based Océ Arizona 250 GT flatbed. In June 2011, after adding two new Océ flatbed printers, the company decided to upgrade to Kongsberg’s i-XP 24 cutting table. “We easily doubled our cutting speed,” said Scott Saunders, co-owner of Global Imaging. The Kongsberg i-XP 24 is rated for a maximum cutting speed of 66 inches per second.
Now with 10 employees, Global Imaging runs two shifts seven days week. The company claims to generate approximately 1-million square feet of display graphics annually, cutting around 70 to 80 percent of this work.
“We just finished a massive job and it was hard not to notice the phenomenal speed of the machine… We were cutting sheets in 10 to 15 seconds,” explained Saunders. “For a 1,000-sheet job, instead of cutting 100 sheets a day, it meant we were cutting 200 to 250 sheets per day.”
Global Imaging’s Kongsberg i-XP 24 is integrated with the i-cut Vision system. “With the i-cut Vision system we can register work on the table,” said Saunders. “We perform a lot of contour cuts; the machine automatically registers sheets so it produces clean contour materials.”
The Kongsberg i-XP 24 is designed to cut a range of materials, such as vinyl, corrugated substrates, MDF, aluminum, styrene, sintra, foam boards and banners. The cutting table is available with over 10,000 on-demand templates.
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