Our machinery

The Short

Our exam printing work horse is the Canon imagePRESS V1000 with staple, two- and four-hole punch and envelope feeder

The Long

‘Short’s’ big brother our second Canon imagePRESS V1000 has a banner sheet paper tray, long sheet catch tray, inserter, staple, two-, four- and wire bind hole punch

The V1350

The main digital cut sheet machine in our fleet is our Canon imagePRESS V1350 with a Plockmatic BLM50 inline booklet maker that can collate your artwork, saddle stitch and produce an extra level of professional with its square back spine finish option

The Booklet Maker

Giving us production contingency, we have the Plockmatic 4035 offline booklet maker also with saddle stitch and square back finishing

The Guillotine

Our scariest machine is our Polar 92 Electric Guillotine. With its sharp metre wide blade it can easily cut through stacks of paper to produce business cards and postcards in bulk

The Arizona

Our biggest piece of kit is our Canon Arizona 135 GT. This is a 2440mm x 1220mm flatbed printer with UVgel technology and roll media option up to 2220mm wide. This machine can “print on anything that fits on it” and produces all campus signage and a wide range of artwork and display graphics

The Colorado

Backing up the Arizona, our Canon Colorado 1640 is a two-roll printer with UVgel technology and roll media up to 1600mm wide responsible for all pull up banners that you see across our campus and events

The Veloblade

The icing on the cake is our Veloblade Nexus 2500mm x 1600mm die cutter with reel-to-reel media option and 25mm cut depth. This device enables us to cut rigid medias in exactly the shape you want, as well as producing stickers and banners in bulk

The Folders

Our folding fleet include the Morgana Digifold Pro creasing and folding system up to 210mm x 1300mm and the Morgana Major Folder folding and perforating system up to 365mm x 648mm. Both devices complement our digital printing service enabling us to produce folded and perforated leaflets.

The ColorWaves
We have two Canon ColorWave 3800 four roll printers that use TonerPearl (wax) ink for media up to 200gsm. These machines are ideal for student coursework submitted through the Online Shop.

They are complemented by our third Canon Colorwave 3600 with top loading 48-bit colour scanner situated with our E&FM colleagues for plan and map printing that can be annotated and digitised.