Inside the system: Five ways Catapult takes cost out.

Lowering a price and taking cost out aren’t the same thing. Anyone can offer a discount. Reduce the margin. Sharpen the quote. Promise the numbers will work.

But nothing has changed.

The same outdated equipment is running. Jobs are still waiting between departments. Time, material and capacity are still being wasted. The cost hasn’t disappeared. It’s been hidden. And sooner or later, it comes back.

Catapult was built differently.

We don’t lower the price of an inefficient process. We challenge the process itself. That’s how we can take as much as 40% out of a customer’s label costs without sacrificing quality, service, lead times or our own profitability.

There’s no catch. There’s a better system.

There are far more than five ways we remove cost. We’ve optimized every part of Catapult around that goal. But these five examples show how the model works and why lower prices don’t have to mean compromise.

From approval to press in 90 seconds

A huge amount of time in print is lost while nothing is happening. Jobs sit in inboxes. Artwork waits for the studio. Finished files wait to reach planning.

Customers still pay for all of it.

In a conventional print business, an approved proof can sit waiting to be picked up and processed. At Catapult, proofs are approved directly within Crystal.

The artwork is then automatically stepped and repeated and planned onto the press in around 90 seconds.

Every stage from order to press is task-managed, with automated alerts reaching the right people at the right time. No chasing. No relying on memory. No waiting for somebody to notice what happens next.

The system keeps the job moving.

Multiple SKUs. One smarter run.

Getting a job to press faster is only the start. We also produce it differently.

Traditionally, separate SKUs require separate runs, make-readies and changeovers.

Print+ changes that.

Print+ allows us to combine multiple SKUs and print them at the same time. Instead of stopping and setting up the press again for every SKU, we produce more in a single run.

That takes cost out before production even begins.

More labels. Less time. Lower cost.

Print+ becomes even more powerful when combined with wider, faster equipment.

Older or narrower presses take longer to produce the same volume of labels. Capacity gets squeezed, lead times grow and costs rise.

Customers shouldn’t pay for those limitations.

We were the first printer to use a 26-inch flexo press. And after we were told it couldn’t be done, we worked out how to do it. More labels. Less time. Lower cost built into every job.

And we’re not stopping there. Another 26-inch press is arriving soon, creating even more capacity and further opportunities to produce work efficiently.

We don’t work in the same way and simply charge less. We challenge what’s possible, then invest in making it happen.

No assumptions. Just the truth.

Our data comes directly from our equipment and systems, with no manual input.

We see actual running speeds, real make-ready times, genuine downtime, material waste and exact capacity across every department. Nobody can massage the numbers.

There’s one accurate version of the truth and we make it visual, simple and easy to act on.

If the data can be argued with, it isn’t good enough. If nobody can use it, it’s useless.

Waste shouldn’t be part of the price

Every meter of wasted material costs money. That cost becomes part of the price and even though the customer never sees it, they still pay for it. We don’t think they should.

Our live data shows us exactly where material is being lost. Not where we assume it is happening. Not what somebody remembers from a production run. What actually happened.

It’s how we’ve maintained waste at approximately 4% for the past year.

Lower waste means lower material costs, more usable capacity and less cost built into every label.

A discount disappears. A better system doesn’t.

Connected workflows remove waiting. Print+ eliminates unnecessary runs and changeovers. Wider presses produce more with every hour. Live data exposes where cost is hiding. Tight waste control stops customers paying for material that never becomes a label.

And these are only five examples.

We’ve optimized every single part of Catapult around the same goal: remove unnecessary cost from the entire process so our customers pay less without getting less.

For years, the print industry has told customers they have to choose. Better service costs more. Shorter lead times cost more. Higher quality costs more. With us you don’t.

If you don’t believe we can significantly reduce your label costs without compromising quality, service or lead times, come and see it for yourself.

We won’t just tell you we’re different. We’ll prove it.