Keeping operating costs low and minimising the environmental footprint, large-format printers from swissQprint are designed for durability with minimum maintenance. According to the company’s chief of development, many customers have confirmed that swissQprint machines have low maintenance costs. And the biggest point, maintenance downtimes can be planned ahead. It states that the company’s printers have always been designed to run with great reliability over years of multi-shift operation. In fact, around 90 percent of the first-generation machines are still in use. In other words, they work away after as long as 15 years.
One of those used to be mercury UV lamps. Since 2017, swissQprint has only used LED lamps. They are energy-saving, toxic waste is no longer an issue and, very importantly, lamp life expectancy is similar to that of the printers. All this saves resources. Likewise of course, the fact that 95 percent of machine parts have potential for returning to the circular economy. Thinking about such longevity, one might question for how much time swissQprint will support earlier printer generations. The answer is that the company supports first-generation output software, they naturally supply spare parts and inks as well – ‘end of life’ isn’t in swissQprint’s vocabulary.