New Inkjet Increases Volume, Quality at Intermountain

By Bob Neubauer

A little over a year after installing a Ricoh Pro VC60000 roll-fed inkjet press in Oct. 2023, Intermountain Healthcare’s in-plant has added a second inkjet press, a Canon varioPRINT iX cut-sheet model, into its 20,000-sq.-ft. Salt Lake City facility.

Intermountain Healthcare’s in-plant team stands with the new Canon varioPRINT iX cut-sheet inkjet press.

“With the rapid growth of our hospital system we have had a large increase in demand for printed materials,” says Simon Ortiz, Print Services operations manager. “Our toner devices … were struggling to keep up with our volume growth. By adding the Canon iX, it increases our volume capabilities by 300%.”

The 20-employee Design & Print Center will use it to print marketing and patient education materials, business cards, thank-you cards, brochures, fact sheets, menus, door hangers, booklets – “you name it, we print it on this machine,” says Ortiz. “The quality is excellent. It just has sharp, vibrant, and crisp colors.”

The in-plant is also adding a C.P. Bourg BM-e 4 bookletmaker and a Tecnau Cutline Stack 1010 system with a TC1530 Dynamic Perforator and a TC1537 Punch unit. Learn more in this IPI interview of Simon Ortiz:

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.