GMG UK has appointed City & West End Solutions (CWES) as the sole UK HP reseller for its new wide-format colour management and workflow solution, the GMG ProductionSuite. The alliance between GMG and CWES was sealed at Sign & Digital 2012 and is effective immediately.
“City & West End Solutions has vast experience in the wide format sector and a tremendous reputation for delivering first rate products and service nationwide. This is a strong and symbiotic partnership that unites GMG’s new workflow which is designed to streamline wide format production with the UK’s largest HP sales and support operation,” says Ian Scott, MD, GMG GMbH. “It’s great for CWES, great for GMG and, most importantly, great for the industry.”
The 30-strong CWES team sells and supports the full range of HP Designjet printers from 42in–3.2m width. The agreement with GMG comes soon after CWES’ move to bigger premises just south of London to accommodate the company’s growth, in addition to its established Sheffield office.
“Having our own experienced nationwide technical support team, not only to provide the best support for our customers, but also to assist our ever growing sales force, has ensured our growth is driven by delivering the very best tools and technology in an ever demanding market sector,” says Doug Gilbertson, CWES Managing Director. This serves to confirm the reason the company has received the largest HP reseller award for Signage & Display in UK for the second year in a row."
He continues, “GMG ProductionSuite is a very powerful workflow management tool. It takes the headache out of managing production to deliver consistent and comparable colour across multiple printers and media mix, while saving time, saving ink and increasing capacity. What’s not to love!”
With ProductionSuite, GMG enters the wide-format sector with the market’s most complete solution for automated, standardised, colour-consistent production of indoor and outdoor advertising, sign and super wide-format printing. It combines GMG’s renowned colour management technology with new job automation and file preparation capabilities in a single system for wide-format pre-press, print and finishing. Target applications range from inkjet-based wide-format production of banners, POS material, displays and vehicle wraps, to industrial wide-format production in very large-format production environments, such as billboards, POS-material, large-format lettering.