Johns Hopkins APL Streamlines Envelope Production

“It was taking a beating,” says Dore. “It was wearing down pretty fast.”

The duplicator was also much slower than the new Ilumina. The in-plant previously printed return addresses on envelopes with the duplicator, then ran them through a multi-function device to address them, or pasted on a label. By contrast, the Ilumina prints both return and sender addresses in one pass. Ink dries immediately, Dore says. Since most of the in-plant’s jobs are same-day/next-day work, that speed boost is most welcome.