History
.....some important dates
30 July 2007 - ACT's single largest investment in one machine arrives for a 3 week installation at ACT's premises. The Virtu RS35 is a 3.5m wide hybrid rollfed and rigid UV printer with the ability to do up to 1200dpi.
18 August 2005 - ACT move to new premises - trading up to 12500 sqft - a 70% increase.
8 October 2002 - ACT’s biggest investment to date which included:
- an upgrade of the Lightjet 5000 to the Lightjet 430, 5 times faster, 20% larger print area.
- Zund UV Inkjet - the first straight to substrate printer in Wales.
- Scitex 3.2m wide banner printer - first in Wales.
- Zund 3m x 2.2m digital die cutter - first in Wales and one of only 6 in the UK.
- Axyz 3m x 1.5m cnc router.
7 June 2000 - Installation of Wales’s first large format photographic printer, Lightjet 5000, which printed supreme quality on Fuji photographic paper. This was installed on the back of one contract - lightbox graphics for Boston Scientific.
15 January 1998 - Installation of the PP1000’s big brother, PP5000 with speeds up to 16sqm/hr and also the first machine available using 6 colours for better quality. The addition of Light Magenta and Light Cyan to the standard Cyan (C), Magenta (M), Yellow (Y), Black (K) colours set making a huge difference.
19 May 1997 - Installation of ACT’s new PP1000 Rastergraphics Inkjet. Great quality but painfully slow - 1 sqm/hr.
11 December 1994 - Following a long campaign to receive funding from The Welsh Office, NatWest and British Coal this date marks the installation of an electrostatic plotter as one of only 50 companies in the UK with this technology.
17 March 1994 - ACT started trading.