Product Guide - ClikCreative

Typeform
As one of Irelands leading “Pre-Media” companies Typeform has established itself over
the last twenty seven years as a high quality supplier of digital colour for print and
publishing. Located in the Portside Business Centre, East Wall Road, Dublin 3 the
company specializes in Pre-Media services for Print and Web. Alan O’Reilly, systems
director at Typeform explained a little about what the company does. “One of our key
services is advertising campaign deliveries and by that I mean we colour manage and deliver
artwork to magazines, newspapers and outdoor advertising directly for clients or agencies.
Various print sites such as newspapers and magazines will have different colour requirements
with regard to total ink weight in order to print a job so we have to colour manage individual
files so that they are accepted by the various print processes. For example you can’t take a magazine ad that’s nice and
punchy at 320 total ink weight and put it into a newspaper. It has to be transformed and colour managed down to about 240
simply so that it won’t seep through the back of the newsprint and break the web when it’s printing.”
Typeform to-day delivers to all the national and regional newspapers and magazines here and in the UK as well as
other countries including the USA. The company offers five primary services, Ad campaign delivery, artwork services
for typesetting and layout, Image manipulation of digital images, high end drum and archive scanning and pre-press
computer to plate making.
“Some of Irelands largest print companies outsource their pre-press to us” continued O’Reilly. “Because a considerable
amount of printers in Ireland to-day find it difficult to invest in multiple plate making devices as well as upgrading software
because it’s so expensive we offer this service twenty four hours a day and take away a major headache for them. All our prepress
kit is supplied by the Reprocentre where we have invested heavily in Agfa equipment from them. We have two Agfa
Avalon VLF (very large format) plate making devices and one Agfa X 45 which means that Typeform has three plate making
devices, two of which are the largest in the country. The company is now probably one of the largest suppliers of plates to the
printing industry in Ireland and accounts for about one third of our business to-day.”
Typeform has been dealing with the Reprocentre since the company was founded and O’Reilly is very open about his
dealings with them. “They are very reliable and have a very good portfolio of products, particularly Agfa which is why over the
years we have invested so much with them. We only use Agfa consumables, Agfa equipment and Agfa Apogee workflow supplied
by the Reprocentre.”
“We have always found the Reprocentre to be on top of their game”, said Paul. “The range and depth of machinery they can supply
is second to none which means that they can always show us two or three similar devices when we are looking to invest in new
machinery. As with all suppliers we have had one or two technical issues with machines supplied by them but in every case these
have been sorted out to our satisfaction because of the expertise of Reprocentre’s engineers which is a very major ‘plus’ in my book.”
In January 2009 DP Imaging expanded further with the purchase of a 3.2 meter HP XP2750 hybrid UV device, again from
the Reprocentre including a Fotoba XL320 XY slicer to automatically finish posters with minimum operator intervention
required.
“This gave us 110 m2/hr output roll to roll and a flatbed capability up to 2.5 m wide and up to 50 mm thickness,” explained Paul.
“This meant that we could now produce very high quality outdoor and POS applications including a dual roll facility to print
simultaneously two different jobs or the same job side by side to increase production. “
DP Imagining has come a long way from its early beginnings as a pre-press house and to-day 75% of its business is wide
format print. Brierton commented; “A lot of our success down through the years is a direct result of the equipment, advice and
back up service which we have received from the Reprocentre.”
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