Graphic Printing Technologies (GPT) has signed a reseller agreement with Esko Graphics UK to sell cutting and software products to the UK market. The deal means that GPT adds an important product sector to its comprehensive portfolio of wide format printing solutions for sign-makers and other graphic print service providers.

Esko is a market leader for software for artwork creation, structural design, pre-production, workflow automation, quality assurance and online collaboration. Esko products and services help customers raise productivity, reduce time-to-market, lower costs and expand business.

Shaun Thompson, sales director for GPT, says, “Cutting systems are an essential component of the modern wide format printing solution. By adding Esko Kongsberg cutters and software to our portfolio we are enabling our customers to increase their range of applications and services to their clients and therefor increase revenue and profits. The Esko range is unrivalled in the industry, with solid experience in packaging solution that easily transfers to the wide format printing and sign-making markets.”

Paul Bates, UK and Eire Business Manager for Esko Graphics, adds, “Esko is already the market leader in the production of packaging solutions. We have identified the potential of the sign-making and wide format print production industries for our products and believe that GPT has a portfolio of printing and finishing products that complement our own systems and strategies perfectly. GPT has an established customer base of Agfa and Mimaki users that are exactly the sort of end users that could benefit most from the Esko Konsberg cutting tables and software.”

GPT will be installing a Konsberg cutting table in its Reading showroom and invites all its customers to visit its office to see the machine and software in action.