The Envelope Opportunity
Though Aicholtz is happy with his shop's PSI printer, he cautions those looking into such devices, "It just isn't a heavy-duty piece of equipment. If I'm doing 60,000 [envelopes], I'm not going to do them here." His five-employee in-plant will use the envelope press for jobs up to 10,000 in length.
Other in-plants have different length limitations. At Northern Arizona University, runs longer than 5,000 are farmed out. Auburn University CopyCat, as the university's sole printer of #9 and #10 one- and two-color envelopes, sometimes prints longer runs. But when bidding for the contract, Miley used Xanté's iQueue software, which comes free with the Ilumina, to estimate the amount of consumables being used and determine a competitive price, even on longer runs.
- Companies:
- XANTÉ Corp.
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.
