Coastline crosses over into digital

Unanderra-based Coastline Printing has sealed its move into digital printing with a new Konica Minolta bizhub Press C6000 through local dealer Mitronics.

The Illawarra printer has been an offset specialist for more than 30 years, servicing local business clients and the wider New South Wales region, but thought it was time to add digital to its mix.

Ross Freestone, company director with Coastline, says, “We felt the need to move on with the changing nature of the printing trade and offer our clients a different service.

“It is something that we needed – thirty years in the printing industry, things have changed a lot.

“A local distributor, Mitronics, came around, showed us some brochures, and offered us a free trial of the bizhub C6000 for three months.

“That was a tempting offer, our research showed the machine had some good reviews, so we decided to go with that.”

At the end of the three month trial, Freestone says there was no chance Coastline was going to part with the C6000. He says the digital process is far more cost effective for the short run colour printing requested by many of his customers, meaning Coastline can pass on their savings and accept more work.

He tells AP, “We have managed to move a portion of our normal factory work onto the bizhub. The turnaround times are a lot quicker. The jobs are printed quite rapidly, they are wrapped up and sent out to the client in a day or two. It is going well, we are happy with it.”

Coastline also commissioned a Halm dedicated envelope printer in October to speed up its production firing out 25,000 envelopes per hour. Freestone says, “We have orders of 100,000 envelopes, that is a day’s printing on the Halm. It is going well too.”

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