Trading up

Pictured from left to right are: Sirage Honeine, head of Trade Secret’s wide-format division; and Dave Harb, owner.
Pictured from left to right are: Sirage Honeine, head of Trade Secret’s wide-format division; and Dave Harb, owner.

Better-known for lithography, Toronto-based Trade Secret Web Printing entered the wide-format market by installing an Anapurna M2050 flatbed inkjet printer from Agfa Graphics.

The six-colour ultraviolet-curing (UV-curing) printer can reportedly produce up to 53 m2 (570 sf) of output per hour. It also features in-line white ink, which can be used as a spot colour or to coat dark or transparent substrates before adding colourful graphics.

Trade Secret chose the Anapurna M2050 for its colour fidelity and ability to print to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 12647-5 standards and General Requirements for Applications in Commercial Offset Lithography (GRACoL) used in screenprinting.

The company has already produced point-of-purchase (POP) graphics and posters for corporate clients like Pizza Nova, Ford and Rogers.