Meeting Of The Minds

All managers reported a big increase in digital printing. Unisys, with 30,000 documents to support, said it is moving to digital printing to stop the waste involved when inventorying items. Last year a large amount of offset-printed pieces had to be thrown away after they became obsolete.

One of the participants, Allstate, has an Indigo digital press, though Allstate's rep said its Xerox 2060 costs half as much to run as the Indigo and thus gets much more use. The State of Ohio replaced its Xerox DocuColor 30 with a Canon 5000, which is reportedly running great.