New Digital Printers Enhance Quality at NJ College
Though most of the high-quality newsletters, annual reports and recruitment material for Burlington County College is printed on its in-plant’s four-color Ryobi 524GE, the six-employee operation still produces a good deal of short-run work on its digital printers. Those devices recently got an upgrade, which has improved the quality and consistency of the Pemberton, N.J., shop’s digitally printed pieces.
In October, BCC Print & Mail Services replaced its Konica Minolta bizhub PRO 6501 with a new 60-page-per-minute Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C1060. It also added a pair of Ricoh Pro 8100S black-and-white printers, replacing two Ricoh 1107s. So far, Manager Steve Amitrano has been very pleased with the results.
“It holds registration front to back much better,” he says of the C1060. “The blacks are rich; the colors are vibrant.”
The C1060 uses Simitri HD toner to produce resolutions of 1,200x1,200 dpi. It accepts paper sizes up to 13x19.2˝ and weights up to 300 gsm. This has allowed the in-plant to upgrade the business cards it produces for the college to 100-lb. uncoated cover stock, which the shop’s previous color printer had trouble feeding.
“That problem is eliminated,” Amitrano says.
He especially likes a dehumidifying feature on the C1060 that removes moisture from paper and acclimates the stock so it goes through the device without jamming. This also helps toner adhere better to sheets, he says.
The two 8100S printers, he says, have also enhanced the quality of the shop’s output.
“All the halftones look sharp,” he notes. “The blacks are rich black.”
The ability to take a 13x19.2” sheet, he adds, lets the shop offer larger posters, which customers appreciate.
“We can run a 12x18” with bleeds now,” he says.
In addition to print and mail services, the in-plant produces signs and banners on its Epson GS6000 and also engraves campus signage with a Vision 1624 engraver, which was purchased by the school’s physical plant department but is operated by in-plant staff. Amitrano is happy to do the work.
“It’s just another way to help the college,” he says.
