57 March / April 2025 - Issue 353 www.printmonthly.co.uk followed by digital print and fulfilment for seamless integration with multiple options for document enhancement that adds value to the final product.” Cray also emphasises how its ability to maintain its lithographic press fleet and advice to customers from design to final product has helped it to keep sales strong. “Our key sales contacts, Julian Smith and Katie Horton, are always on hand to help, support and advise prospective customers. For example, we recently worked with a well-known high street toy retailer to transition their inteneeds and often compliments products sourced from our modern digital offering.” Recently CFH invested in a Xerox Iridesse Production Press in order to boost its digital solutions as the machine can produce embellishment printing such as metallic emulation, white, fluorescent, and gloss/varnish effects. For CFH, lithographic print demand remains strong with its client base, especially as the medium is “ideal” for medium to long runs of high-quality products with a fast turnaround. Cray says: “We can use lithographic printing for base stock ► Steve Cray, production director at CFH in front of the company’s Xerox Iridesse “Customers get hands-on insight into how each machine operates, meet the teams behind the presses, and see firsthand how we strategically combine litho and digital processes to maximise efficiency and quality. “By the end of the tour, our customers leave confident in understanding not only the value of both technologies but also how they can rely on us to support their business growth with our expertise and state-of-the-art equipment.” The “And” Era of Print One print company that has continued to embrace traditional and digital print production is CFH, a business that has operated in the industry since 1977 with a “modest setup” and now has three sites with its main factory spanning 115,000sq ft in size. Steve Cray, production director at the company, says: “We made a significant impact by pioneering Docmail in 2008, the first true hybrid mail solution on the market. Continual innovation has enabled us to operate in sectors including healthcare, local government, finance, and elections, producing more than 30 million documents annually.” Cray explains that lithographic printing has been central to CFH’s history since it started trading over 45 years ago as it remains key to it operations today. “We rely on lithographic printers to produce specialist documents such as sustainable paper wrap and business stationery to cheques and certificates. Offset printing has continued to support our clients’ ▲ Route 1 Print uses two HEIDELBERG Speedmaster XL 106s and an XL 75 Press LITHOGRAPHIC AND DIGITAL PRINT TECHNOLOGY
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