GPT teams up with Secabo to sell range of heat presses

Graphic Printing Technologies (GPT) has teamed up with Secabo to sell its range of heat presses. Secabo’s heat presses will enhance GPT’s capability to fully service the textile and apparel industry as they complement Mimaki’s range of market leading dye-sublimation textile printers.

Secabo develops high quality devices and machines for signmakers from vinyl cutters to heat presses. Secabo’s seven heat presses provide simple, cost-effective solutions for all common heat transfer methods and objects. The TC 5 and TC 7 are clam presses and the TS 7 is a swing away heat press. The TC C is made for caps and hats, the TC M for mugs and other round items and the TC D 7 is a pneumatic double plate heat press for professional use. For large-scale applications the TC 10 offers a much larger working area.

GPT will offer the Secabo heat presses together with Mimaki dye-sublimation printers, which use heat to transfer dye onto a broad range of materials including plastic, paper and fabric.  The Mimaki TPC-1000 is an integrated printer/cutter designed to produce a range of apparel, including uniforms, workwear, t-shirts, swimsuits and virtually any type of clothing that requires additional text or graphics. The Mimaki TPC-1000 is based on Mimaki’s market-leading CJV printer/cutter and delivers a cost-effective integrated solution to creating unique designs on a range of apparel.

GPT’s General Manager, Stuart Cole, says, “Now we are able to offer customers the complete package from Mimaki’s expert dye-sub printers to Secabo’s heat presses. The two really go together and we are confident that this is a winning combination. Many people printing with small format Epson-type printers using Saw Grass or other 3rd party dye sub inks are finding that as their workload increases, the cost of this printing setup is expensive. GPT can offer a complete, cost-effective solution that delivers more of a production-level solution with lower cost per print and greater flexibility to deliver a broader and most value-oriented service.”

Oliver Tiedemann, General Manager of Secabo, adds, “We were keen to build a relationship with GPT as they already had a comprehensive dye-sub range, which complement our heat presses perfectly. GPT also have a wealth of experience and knowledge in the broader printing arena and we are confident that they can extend this into the textile and apparel printing trade.”

Secabo’s heat presses and the Mimaki TPC1000 printer/cutter will be on view at GPT’s Dye-sublimation and textile printing area at Sign & Digital UK (27-29 March 2012. Hall 3, stand D30).