Indigo Ross Doubles Production Capacity with Fujifilm Press Install
Phil Roper, Indigo Ross's managing director and Rachel Whitehart, digital print and designer, with the new machine
Indigo Ross’s investment in a Fujifilm press has supercharged its capabilities, doubling production capacity and bringing work in-house.
Installed at the end of April, the Sudbury, Suffolk-based business has since seen the benefits of its new press, including making short-run jobs more cost effective for clients.
It marks the first time the company has purchased from Fujifilm, with the team drawn to the Revoria EC2100S model due to its five-colour capabilities.
Phil Roper, Indigo Ross’s managing director, said the model “just made sense for us”.
“The fact that it’s a five-colour model really sets it apart - that fifth colour capability is a game changer for the type of work we can produce ourselves,” said Roper.
Roper added that the extended colour range means the company now has fewer creative limits.
“If a client wants a bright neon, a vivid brand orange, or something that needs that extra pop, we can deliver it without compromise, and that’s a huge selling point for us,” he said.
The fifth colour feature, fluorescent pink, has opened up a new world of capabilities not possible with a standard CMYK digital press, Carl Lawrence, operations director at Indigo added.
“We are now able to hit bright Pantone colours on short-run jobs which previously we would have had to have printed lithographically, making short-run jobs much more cost effective for our clients,” Lawrence told Printweek. “Our production capacity has doubled too, as we are now running this new machine alongside our Xerox digital press.”
The install has given the company greater capacity to bring more work in-house and to take on longer runs with confidence.
For example, a recent 116-page annual job for a trade client involving five-colour, with a vivid Pantone 1505 orange, would normally be outsourced to litho, “but the turnover was too tight” said Roper.
“The Revoria’s fifth colour saved the day - we simply couldn’t have hit that orange digitally before. Now, we can keep these high-value, demanding jobs in-house and maintain full control over the quality and turnaround.”
Indigo Ross was one of the first in the UK to invest in the Revoria EC2100S press, according to Fujifilm.
Founded in 1995, Indigo Ross celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this year. It currently has a team of 14 staff and a turnover of around £1.2m. The company took on an additional 140sqm of unit across from its existing 280sqm in late 2024, which now homes all of the company's large-format kit, to give more room in the main unit for its two digital presses.