Our machinery
Our machinery is split across two rooms : short format and large format
Short format printing uses individual sheets of standard-sized paper (like A4 or Letter), while large format printing produces oversized visuals (posters, banners, signage) on rolls or wide sheets designed for display.
Explaining short format and large format
| Feature | Short Format Printing | Large Format Printing |
|---|---|---|
| Paper type | Individual sheets of paper fed into the printer | Rolls or wide sheets of paper/material |
| Common sizes | Standard office sizes: A3, A4, A5, A6 plus oversixed sheets to enable artwork with bleed | Oversized formats beyond A4 / A3 up to 1.3m wide rolls and rigid sheets up to 2.4m x 1.2m |
| Applications | Business documents, brochures, booklets, business cards, postcards, menu cards | Posters, banners, signage, artwork, display graphics |
| Printer type | Office and production printers designed for precision on small sheets with inline finishing such as booklet making, hole punch and stapling | Wide format printers designed for large visuals |
| Materials | Paper with matt and satin finishes | Paper, canvas, banner, foam board, thermoplastic, aluminium composite |
| Output focus | Quality and efficiency for text heavy or small graphic artwork | Impactful, eye-catching visuals for marketing or display purposes |
Our short format 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 short format 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 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 short format service enabling us to produce folded and perforated leaflets.
Our large format machinery
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 2000mm 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 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.
Our final ColorWave 3700 sits down on the London campus for our colleagues and students to use there