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Save £30k on our Demonstration DYSS Cutting Machine
Save £30k on our Demonstration DYSS Cutting Machine
Get £30k Off the List Price with Immediate Delivery* if Required! Only one DYSS X7-1624C with 8’ x 5’ conveyorised bed available at this price.
Are you ready to revolutionise your production process with a top-of-the-line digital cutter? Our Demonstration X7-1624C is for sale at over £30k less than the list price: Only £87,700 + VAT including installation
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KASEMAKE CAD and DYSS X5 Chosen by Boxes and Packaging
KASEMAKE CAD and DYSS X5 Chosen by Boxes and Packaging
Longstanding customers Boxes and Packaging describe why investing in KASEMAKE Packaging Design Software and a DYSS Digital Cutting Machine is the best choice
Boxes and Packaging is the UK’s largest independent sheet plant network. With 12 well invested manufacturing sites covering the entire country, Boxes and Packaging (incorporating Boxshop Ltd and Red Rose Packaging) has the expertise and ability to fulfil all customer demand.
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Can You Teach An Old Dog New Tricks?
Can You Teach An Old Dog New Tricks?
Craig Allen explains why KASEMAKE was the packaging design software chosen for Swiftpak
On June 1st, 2021, I joined Swiftpak as Head of Innovation - not only a new role for me but also a change in Swiftpak’s plans for their own Design and Innovation Service. With every design facility a good design cad software package is the essential tool. KASEMAKE filled that role.
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KASEMAKE CXD is Live at London Metropolitan Archives
KASEMAKE CXD is Live at London Metropolitan Archives
CXD International and AG/CAD have installed a new KASEMAKE CXD Digital Cutting Machine at LMA
We are delighted to see the new KASEMAKE CXD in action at the London Metropolitan Archives, one of several new KASEMAKE CXD Digital Cutting Machines we have installed this year!
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Belmont Packaging Invest in DYSS and KASEMAKE
Belmont Packaging Invest in DYSS and KASEMAKE
Customers for over 20 years, Belmont Packaging describe why investing in another cutting table and using KASEMAKE Packaging Design Software from AG/CAD is the smart choice
Belmont Packaging is a corrugated sheet plant in Wigan, Greater Manchester. It has been trading since 1978 and was bought by its current owner, Kate Hulley, in 2013. Belmont has been a customer of AG/CAD for more than 20 years.
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Macfarlane’s State-of-the-Art Innovation Lab Acquires a DYSS X5
Macfarlane’s State-of-the-Art Innovation Lab Acquires a DYSS X5
KASEMAKE Packaging Design Software has been used at sites across the group for many years, so purchasing a DYSS Digital Cutting Machine from AG/CAD was an easy choice
AG/CAD has provided CAD software and cutter solutions to the Macfarlane Group for many years. KASEMAKE packaging design software is used at sites across the group, in manufacturing and distribution, including the original Milton Keynes Innovation Lab.
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DYSS X7 And Canon Arizona For Entwistle Thorpe Group
DYSS X7 And Canon Arizona For Entwistle Thorpe Group
Within ten minutes of seeing the DYSS X7 run, Entwistle Thorpe Group already made the decision to buy it!
Founded in 1899, The Entwistle Thorpe Group started out offering supplies to the photographic and printing industries. Over the last one hundred years the services offered have evolved, now catering for current trends in computer aided drafting, digital graphic products along with value added packaging and point of sale displays.
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Want to be able to efficiently produce your own boxes and folders?
Want to be able to efficiently produce your own boxes and folders?
KASEMAKE CXD Box Making Machine from CXD International and AG/CAD is the conservator's choice in libraries and archives worldwide
KASEMAKE CXD is a sophisticated box making machine that has established itself as the conservator's choice in libraries and archives worldwide. Make it your solution!
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Cases24 Ready For The Future With a DYSS X5 Digital Cutters
Cases24 Ready For The Future With a DYSS X5 Digital Cutters
Having used KASEMAKE and KM Series Digital Cutters for many years, Cases24 upgrade to the latest DYSS Digital Cutting Machines and attest to the excellent technical support received from AG/CAD
Cases24 is the case making division of Board24, which is in turn part of the Logson group of companies. The Logson Group is a UK based group of corrugated packaging companies employing over 1000 people and turning over £200m annually.
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City Signs Expand Into New Markets With DYSS X7 Flatbed Cutter
City Signs Expand Into New Markets With DYSS X7 Flatbed Cutter
City Signs describe the cost-benefits of choosing KAEMAKE and a DYSS X7
City Signs, which was originally started in Luton by Horace Wilkins upon the completion of his apprenticeship, has been trading for 60 years. The company moved to Worcester in the late 1960s and has been trading in the area ever since.
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Print On Grows Its Business With A DYSS Digital Cutter
Print On Grows Its Business With A DYSS Digital Cutter
Print On use KASEMAKE and DYSS to produce die-cut boxes, POS displays, FSDUs, acrylic board, and signage
Since its inception in 1995, Print On in Cheshire has evolved from a high-street photocopy shop to a digital print-on-demand company producing everything from posters and signage through to pop-up banners, stationery, die cut boxes, POS displays, FSDUs, acrylic boards and general large format print and finishing. To support this growth, the Cheadle company has moved to a new purpose-built facility and filled it with the latest print and finishing technology, including a DYSS digital cutter from AG/CAD.
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Sheet-Handling Automation Improves Turnaround For Derwent Displays
Sheet-Handling Automation Improves Turnaround For Derwent Displays
Derwent Displays describe the productivity gains brought about using KASEMAKE CAD Software and their new DYSS Cutting Machine from AG/CAD
Founded over quarter of a century ago, Derwent Displays has invested more than £1.75m in the last two years to underpin its strategy of employing the latest technology to continue its growth trajectory whilst enhancing customer service and experience. Part of this growth strategy is to develop new market segments beyond its already expansive reach that includes design & prototyping, print and finishing, in-house assembly, packaging and project delivery.
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DYSS Digital Cutter Is The Smart Choice For Packaging Manufacturer
DYSS Digital Cutter Is The Smart Choice For Packaging Manufacturer
Having previously used KASEMAKE for designing and creating samples, KASEMAKE is now also used to drive Smart Packaging's new DYSS Digital Cutter
Since its inception more than 20 years ago, Smart Packaging Ltd has been on a growth trajectory that has culminated in a move to a new factory, investment in a casemaking machine and now the arrival of a new digital cutter from AG/CAD.
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DYSS X7 Digital Cutter Generates Growth For Tailor Made
DYSS X7 Digital Cutter Generates Growth For Tailor Made
After investigating all the options at the Sign & Digital exhibition, the DYSS Digital Cutting machine from AG/CAD really stood out for Tailor Made
Like many family owned businesses, Tailor Made Signs & Embroidery was set-up as a home based business that has flourished over its 20 years of existence. Joanne Pawlett started a small embroidery business from home and after husband Lee later joined the company and the couple got their first industrial unit and printer in 2002 - the growth ever since has been exponential.
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DYSS Cuts It For Printvision
DYSS Cuts It For Printvision
Printvision used the DYSS Digital Cutting Machine to cut over 500 2m-long petrol forecourt flags in three days rather than three weeks!
Printvision is a business that was conceived in a bedroom by two budding entrepreneurs, Ash and Krit Patel. Twenty-one years after the ambitious brothers made the bold decision to found Printvision as co-directors, the company has just invested over £1.5million in two 3m wide digital printers, a 3.2m wide digital cutter from AG/CAD and a new 14,000sq/ft facility.
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DYSS X7 Digital Cutter Brings Success
DYSS X7 Digital Cutter Brings Success
The DYSS Digital Cutter eliminated external subcontracting costs, reduced lead times, and provided the potential to target new market sectors for Thomas Leach Colour
Very few print businesses can say they have ridden the tide of continuous change and market evolution and remained successful throughout their existence. Thomas Leach Colour is a company that has not only sailed through the industry challenges; it has excelled since its inception almost 120 years ago.
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Tristar Become A One Stop Shop And Add Value With A DYSS
Tristar Become A One Stop Shop And Add Value With A DYSS
KASEMAKE CAD includes a powerful 3D environment visualisation and animation tool that allows us to build virtual 3D environments such as supermarket aisles, shelf units or even a complete store. We can then place our products into this 3D space.
When TriStar Printers Ltd exited the downturn amongst a flooded and cut-throat traditional small format litho industry, the Blackburn print company re-aligned its business strategy in a concerted effort to add value for its customer base. This strategy involved adding 40% to its floor area to house a large format print department with a Canon Océ Arizona flatbed digital printer and alongside it a DYSS X7 digital cutter from AG/CAD.
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PPFS choose industry-standard KASEMAKE Packaging CAD
PPFS choose industry-standard KASEMAKE Packaging CAD
KASEMAKE is the leading Packaging Design Software and is recognised as the industry-standard for display work
Professional Print Finishing Services (PPFS) Ltd was initially formed in 1997 by Annette and Joe Hobbs as a home-based business in addition to their day-jobs, with the pair working both day and night. This relentless work-ethic has seen the family business recently pass its 20th anniversary, growing exponentially to fill a 50,000sq ft facility in North London.
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JCT Eliminate Bottlenecks With A DYSS X7
JCT Eliminate Bottlenecks With A DYSS X7
The DYSS had an immediate impact: a Prêt-A-Manger poster, printed from a 50m long roll, would have taken over 2 hours to cut by hand. It is now done on the DYSS in less than 30 minutes.
As a company that has relocated to new facilities three times in the last four years, JCT Developments is witnessing extraordinary growth levels. Despite the relentless growth, the Hampshire company that specialises in large format digital advertising and retail print production, POS signage and the respective fitting, has seen business expand by 30% over the last 12 months.
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AG/CAD Helps Cornish Company Instantly Grow By 20 Percent
AG/CAD Helps Cornish Company Instantly Grow By 20 Percent
According to Print-2-Media, the build-quality and rigidity of the DYSS digital cutter really stood out; and the features of the DYSS make it the best offering on the market.
Stepping from the employed world to starting a print business can be a daunting prospect, but for Glenn Wrigley the ambition of moving from city life to the Cornish coast was all the incentive that was needed. Seven years after making the life changing decision to re-locate and conceive Print-2-Media, Mr. Wrigley is reaping the rewards of his decision with the help of a DYSS X7-1624C digital cutting machine from AG/CAD.
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C3 Cuts Costs And Bottlenecks With A DYSS X7 1630T
C3 Cuts Costs And Bottlenecks With A DYSS X7 1630T
Upgrading to a DYSS X7 Digital Cutting Machine and K-CUT Vision Software from AG/CAD cut costs for C3 Midlands Design & Print Solutions
C3 Midlands Creative Design & Print Solutions is a company name that gives a distinct description of what this 18 employee Birmingham business is all about. The company prides itself on its ability to turnaround customer’s work quickly whilst doing it well. It is this commitment to quality with a fast turnaround that has seen C3 invest in a DYSS X7-1630T digital cutter from AG/CAD.
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Potts Print Meets Short Lead Times With DYSS Digital Cutters
Potts Print Meets Short Lead Times With DYSS Digital Cutters
According to Potts Print (UK), the DYSS is the most efficient, well-built and cost-effective Digital Cutting Machine available
With a history that dates back to 1875, Potts Print (UK) has evolved through the years to become one of the UK’s leading print, packaging and direct mail companies. The ability to deliver litho as well as personalised digital print solutions, along with bespoke packaging and direct mail, all with seamless production, storage and distribution services is the result of managerial foresight and a continuous investment strategy that sets the Cramlington company apart from its competitors.
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DYSS Bottles Success For Print Leeds
DYSS Bottles Success For Print Leeds
Print Leeds invest in a DYSS X7 Digital Cutting and KASEMAKE Packaging Design Software for Point-of-Sale and Packaging Design Work
Few print businesses are currently spending at the level of Print Leeds in terms of growth and investment. The rapidly evolving company has invested over £3.5m in the last four years and is projected to spend an additional £5m in the next 18 months.
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DYSS X5 Fast Digital Cutter Helps Anytech Print Expand
DYSS X5 Fast Digital Cutter Helps Anytech Print Expand
Anytech describe why a digital cutting table and software from AG/CAD were chosen instead of ESKO or Summa
Creative cardboard engineering and print specialist, Anytech Limited, has installed a DYSS X5 digital cutter, supplied by AG/CAD Limited, at its Swindon premises. The investment in the DYSS was made to enhance its in-house capabilities as a response to increasing demand, and to grow the large format part of the business.
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British Loose Leaf choose a DYSS X5 and KASEMAKE Packaging CAD
British Loose Leaf choose a DYSS X5 and KASEMAKE Packaging CAD
BLL describe their decision process in choosing KASEMAKE and a DYSS Digital Cutting Machine from AG/CAD
As a manufacturer of personalised products, ring binders, boxes, folders and much more, British Loose Leaf (BLL) has now invested in a DYSS X5 digital cutter from AG/CAD.
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DYSS X7 Can Make Your Sign Graphics Business Sing
DYSS X7 Can Make Your Sign Graphics Business Sing
Thames Graphics tell us why a DYSS X7 and KASEMAKE software was chosen at the Sign & Digital Exhbition
Thames Graphics has kept pace with the trends and developments of the large-format print industry since its founding in 1984. At the start of the new millennium, the High Wycombe company was moving toward digital print. However, it was the acquisition of the business by husband-and-wife team Alex and Ivan that really drove the company through its most successful decade of growth.
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DYSS X7 Digital Cutter Helps To Stand Out Above The Competition
DYSS X7 Digital Cutter Helps To Stand Out Above The Competition
Tom Noon, the director of StandOut Graphics, tells us why a DYSS X7 and KASEMAKE Packaging CAD was chosen above the competition
From the success of Stand Innovations Ltd, a 10-year-old exhibition stand building company; a new print and design business has now blossomed. The thriving growth of the Sharnford based exhibition specialist, prompted the company directors to start up StandOut Graphics, an innovative Large Format Printing Company specialising in providing bespoke visual advertising solutions to virtually any brief.
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Heavy Duty Box Manufacturer Installs DYSS Digital Cutter
Heavy Duty Box Manufacturer Installs DYSS Digital Cutter
S Lester explain their decision making process in choosing a DYSS Digital Cutting Machine and KASEMAKE Packaging CAD
As a traditional sheet plant that has been manufacturing heavy duty boxes and fitments since its inception in 1983, S Lester Packing Materials Ltd has recently implemented a new strategy to help win new business. This strategy has included the opening of a design and innovation centre, and key to this new centre is a DYSS digital cutting table and KASEMAKE software supplied by AG/CAD.
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Quantum Print & Packaging chooses DYSS and KASEMAKE
Quantum Print & Packaging chooses DYSS and KASEMAKE
Joint Managing Director, Peter Thomas, describes the decision making process when choosing to invest in a DYSS Digital Cutting Machine and KASEMAKE
Formed over a decade ago from the merging of a print company specialising in promotional and POS work with a traditional box manufacturer, the ethos and philosophy of Quantum Print & Packaging Ltd has always been continuous improvement. To ensure the company delivers for its customers, the Midlands outfit recently invested in a Ricoh C9100 digital press and shortly afterwards added a DYSS digital cutter from AG/CAD.
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DYSS Automates Large Format Cutting For POS/POP Specialist Daytona
DYSS Automates Large Format Cutting For POS/POP Specialist Daytona
Daytona Visual upgrade to a DYSS X5 Digital Cutting Machine from AG/CAD after using an existing KASEMAKE KM Series Table for 15 years
When Daytona Visual opened its doors for business back in 1979, the company was set up as a screen print company with a distinct eye for employing innovation. Always aiming to push the boundaries, Daytona was one of the first companies to produce four-colour screen print on a commercial basis for point of sale and in-store applications. Today, the Daytona customer base includes some of the world’s leading companies, brands, agencies and retailers; something the company puts down to its combination of expert staff and investment in leading technology.
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WE Roberts Add A DYSS X5 1630T As Part Of Technology Investment
WE Roberts Add A DYSS X5 1630T As Part Of Technology Investment
WE Roberts explain their decision making in choosing a Digital Cutting Machine from AG/CAD and KASEMAKE Packaging CAD
Living under the long shadow and rubble left by the Luftwaffe in 1950s London, Alan Roberts and his father made a living out of turning discarded cardboard boxes inside-out, re-gluing and re-selling the boxes. Inadvertently, the East-End business borne out of necessity was actually recycling generations before the rest of the industry even grasped the concept.
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DYSS Is Music To The Ears Of Festival Promotions Printer
DYSS Is Music To The Ears Of Festival Promotions Printer
Twenty Four Seven Design and Print Ltd are a print and signage business specialising in working with festival and concert promotion companies
Twenty-Four Seven Design and Print Ltd. delivers a complete publicity package for musicians and music events as a print and signage business specialising in working with festival and concert promotion companies. Working closely with event organisers and promoters, the Warrington business prints everything from leaflets, general POS products, safety banners, instruction booklets and even road signs – all can now be finished on the company’s new DYSS digital cutting system supplied by AG/CAD.
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Advanced Packaging choose DYSS and KASEMAKE Packaging CAD
Advanced Packaging choose DYSS and KASEMAKE Packaging CAD
Carl Pender from Advanced Packaging describes the benefits of KASEMAKE Packaging Design Software and a DYSS X5 Digital Cutting Machine
Producing over seven million boxes and cartons a year, Advanced Packaging considers itself a typical ‘brown box’ manufacturer. Priding itself on its remarkably high customer retention levels over its 13 years in business, the Staffordshire company isn’t resting on its laurels and has taken a decision to drive the business forward with an investment in a DYSS X5-1630T Digital Die Cutter from AG/CAD.
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