Kuhn Corp Press & Packaging has responded to market demand by relocating and going digital.

Managing director Walter Kuhn said the Brisbane printer had installed a Fuji Xerox Color J75 in its new Virginia factory so it would no longer miss out on on-demand work.

He told ProPrint that Kuhn Corp had migrated shorter-run jobs to the Color J75, but had given clients the option to switch back to offset if they favoured quality over speed.

Kuhn said the eight-staff firm had finally decided to invest in its first digital press, "because we believe digital quality-wise is now getting close to offset".

He also said Kuhn Corp had made a strategic decision to choose a less high-powered device because it wanted to remain lean and not be pressured in to chasing volumes.

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"If we had half the amount of press capacity in Australia, prices would go up. It's economics 101, but people don't understand that," he said.

"We're not highly geared financially. We don't have huge leases and we don't have the latest and greatest of everything."

Kuhn Corp relocated in late June from a leased facility in Geebung to a property it purchased in the neighbouring suburb of Virginia.

Kuhn told ProPrint there had been several reasons for the move: the old site was running at high capacity; the roomier factory would generate better workflows; and the real estate market was currently geared to buyers.

The firm's main offset presses are a Komori Lithrone L628 and a Heidelberg GTO, said Kuhn.

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