UK's First Ryobi 920 Running at Pardy & Son

Pardy & Son, Ringwood, Hampshire, has announced the purchase and installation of the UK's first Ryobi 920 Series SRA1 format press. The Ryobi 925 machine was purchased from the official UK Ryobi distributor, Apex Digital Graphics, Hemel Hempstead.

Pardy & Son is the leading independent printer of auction catalogues in the UK. The company has been established for over 130 years and clients include provincial, national and international auction houses.

Commenting on the reasons behind the purchase, Tim Beech, Joint Managing Director at Pardy & Son, said: "There were two main reasons behind this investment. Firstly, our existing B2 press, which had been a valuable servant during its time, was some 10 years old, and was therefore costing significant sums in maintenance. Secondly, due mainly to format, we were outsourcing a fair amount of certain types of work.

"This second factor alone was justification for the new machine, but coupled with the age of our existing B2 press, and the SRA1 format on offer from the Ryobi machine, we could see potential productivity benefits. We did look at a range of possible machines, but Apex and the Ryobi 920 had some very persuasive arguments, particularly when it came to sheet size. The SRA1 format meant that we could accommodate some of the jobs that we had been sending out, but without taking up significantly more floor space than our existing B2 machine."

Following the installation Pardy & Son has been especially delighted to receive a number of positive comments back from customers. "The press has performed well since installation," continued Tim Beech. "It has been a great pleasure to receive feedback from customers regarding the image quality being achieved with the new equipment."

About Pardy & Son
Pardy & Son has developed specialist expertise and invested in plant specifically suited to catalogue production, thus it consistently produces catalogues of all types both speedily and economically.

About the Ryobi 920
Ryobi's introduction of an SRA1 press caused considerable interest at the recent IPEX show in Birmingham. It provides for eight-up A4 printing at a significantly lower cost than a B1-format press.

"Many printers looking to move up from B2 format tend to focus on B1 as the next logical move, when in reality many only intend to print eight-up A4 work. A B1 press for this work is simply overkill. It would mean that the printer is running a larger, more expensive press, using oversize plates, and often oversize substrates," said Neil Handforth, Sales and Marketing Director of Apex Digital Graphics, the UK's official Ryobi distributor.

The recently introduced Ryobi 920 Series SRA1 press offers printers the ideal solution for such a straightforward workload. It also provides a more economical printing solution, and a significantly greener option when examining the potential savings on power consumption, plate and paper waste. It is the ideal machine for printers seeking an effective solution for 900 x 640mm printing. The Ryobi 920 is already becoming firmly established across Europe in areas that would previously have only considered the B1 option.

"Savings begin with the overall cost of the machine, which effectively offers B1 productivity for near the price of a B2 machine," said Mr Handforth. The physical size of the press itself provides a near 35% space reduction compared with a typical B1 machine, which can be important when expensive floor space needs to be considered as part of the installation of a new machine.

With regard to power consumption, the Ryobi will consume approximately 45kW per hour, whilst a typical B1 machine might expect to draw 72 kW per hour – another saving in favour of the Ryobi 920 over a typical eight hour day of some 216kW hours. With current commercial electricity pricing for daytime working at circa 9p per kW hour, that would equate to a saving for users of the Ryobi machine in the region of £100 per five day week, or in excess of £5,000 per year.