Color printing at Colgate University’s in-plant has jumped 96 percent since it installed a pair of Xerox 250s.

By Bob Neubauer

Compared to last year, color printing at Colgate University’s in-plant has jumped 96 percent since the Hamilton, N.Y., shop installed a pair of Xerox 250s. But the best part, says Bob Keats, director of Document and Mail Services, is the quality of that color.

“We really, really, really liked the quality of the printing,” he says. “It’s much better than what we had previously.”

Another boon: the operators can replace many of the parts themselves.

“You don’t have to wait for a service guy,” Keats says. This is a big deal because of the in-plant’s semi-remote location, in central New York state.

The shop is using an EFI Fiery front end, which allows it to switch jobs between its Xerox printers and black-and-white Canon equipment.

Click charges dropped 25 percent with the new equipment, he says. Add in the improved quality, and customers have found the combination irresistible.

“Because of the price points I can run to higher quantities and be competitive with offset,” Keats says.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

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