Here’s how Campus Printing at Central Piedmont Community College justified a digital color press.

By Richard Griffin

Here’s an example: if you run two-up on 11x17? and cut it down to 81/2x11?, at a monthly volume of 10,000 81/2x11? prints, a paper cost of $35 per 1,000 for 11x17?, a machine cost of $40,000, and a click rate of $.08, and then charge a price of $.35 per print, your hard cost ROI is less than 17 months. Crunch the numbers and see for yourself.