Slow Recovery from Fast Flood

The doors burst open, and two feet of water flooded into the in-plant, destroying its equipment in seconds.

“I was devastated,” recalls Lyons, Print & Mail Services manager. “It was sad. We lost everything.”

Gone were the in-plant’s Canon image-RUNNER 110, Xerox 700, Presstek Digital PlateMaster 2340, Duplo 2000 bookletmaker, Morgana creaser and a 42˝ cutter, along with mailroom computers and furniture. The in-plant’s Heidelberg Quickmaster 46 press sustained $18,000 worth of damage to its electronics. Only the shop’s Xanté Ilumina envelope press, perched on its three-foot-high stand, stayed above the floodwaters.