Duplicators My How They've Changed

It was a workable but costly process. The company was spending nearly $45,000 per month for the offset and variable data printing. Beyond that, the eight laser printers weren't giving Millennium the speed it wanted for its monthly output of three million impressions.

The solution turned out to be a combination of fast, efficient digital components. It began with two 600-dpi digital duplicators, each capable of up to 130 pages per minute. Those units were teamed with three digital production printers, which provide two colors in one pass, for a combined output of some 720 pages per minute, or 43,000 per hour. With that rate of output, the laser printers had no chance of keeping up with the duplicators' pace, so eight high-speed digital copiers were enlisted to maintain production speed. All the equipment was connected to the company's computer, allowing fast and easy copy edits to the mailers' fast-changing contents.