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swissQprint: Balancing Cost-Effectiveness and Sustainability

The wide-format equipment manufacturer embraces cost savings and eco-friendly initiatives.

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By using high-quality materials, swissQprint lays the foundation for low maintenance and durability.

(PRESS RELEASE) Large-format printers from swissQprint are designed for durability with minimum maintenance, thus keeping operating costs low and minimizing the environmental footprint. How does the manufacturer achieve this standard? swissQprint’s chief of development gives the lowdown.

Customers confirm: swissQprint machines have low maintenance costs. And the biggest point is that maintenance downtimes can be planned ahead of time. “Our printers always have been designed to run with great reliability over years of multi-shift operation,” says Marc Baumgartner, CTO at swissQprint. “And it’s a fact, around 90% of the first-generation machines are still in use. In other words, working away after as long as 15 years.

Baumgartner illuminates a key dimension. “Less wear means fewer service calls, hence lower maintenance costs and CO2 emissions.” Two things are crucial to achieving this. First, the use of high-quality materials and components. And second, having the fewest possible wear parts.

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 of this saves resources. Likewise, the fact that 95% 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 comes from Baumgartner. “Not only do we continue supporting first-generation output software, we supply spare parts and inks as well. ‘End of life’ isn’t in our vocabulary.”

Don’t Replace – Repair instead
He goes into another aspect of the swissQprint philosophy. “‘Don’t replace – repair instead’.” In the development process, we always ask ourselves what are the repairable components,” he says. “In particular, print heads or electronic circuit boards that are still in good condition are given a second life. Doing repairs not only saves our customers money, it also conserves valuable resources.”

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