The in-plant at California State University-Fullerton just added a Kodak NexPress 2100 plus.

By Bob Neubauer

The two-employee in-plant at California State University-Fullerton was doing some remarkable digital color printing volumes on its Xerox DocuColor 12. In just one month last summer it produced 47,000 impressions.

“We had the highest click count this side of the Mississippi,” laughs Terry Jarmon, manager of Print Services.

Still, Jarmon knew a lot of digital jobs were bypassing the in-plant due to the Doc 12’s speed limitations. So after checking out all of the latest digital presses, the shop added a Kodak NexPress 2100 plus.

“This is our first true digital press, and it is an amazing piece of equipment,” he says.

The in-plant is now doing higher-volume, fast-turnaround jobs like sports media guides.

“In the first two months that we’ve had this up and running, we’re running about 100-110,000 impressions a month,” Jarmon says. And this is without even promoting the NexPress 2100’s capabilities.

“Our public affairs office, which produces most of the work for the campus, always is pushing coated material, especially anything that they want to mail,” notes Jarmon. “Having the fifth color on the NexPress is what sold me because you can do so much with that clear coat on a product. When we run it through the NexGlosser, the coating and the finish is phenomenal.”

It is also better for the environment than laminating, he notes, and he hopes to produce a larger share of the flyers and signs displayed around campus, many of which are currently being laminated to protect them. His experiments with coated pieces in a sink overnight have convinced him of their durability.

Once he can properly market the NexPress, Jarmon anticipates scooping up even more work.

“I’m expecting great things,” he says.

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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.

CSU-Fullerton Goes From Doc 12 to NexPress