UNC Pembroke Strengthens Color Capabilities

Though its rural location is part of its allure, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke also has fewer choices when it comes to services. Knowing this, its three-employee in-plant has been striving to build up its printing capabilities.

“We absolutely believe that we can provide any of the printing that any commercial printer can do,” proclaims Glenda Kiser, print supervisor.

Two recent installations will help her prove it. The shop has added both a Canon imagePRESS C7000VP and an HP DesignJet Z3100ps wide-format printer.

The imagePRESS C7000VP, one of Canon’s newest color devices, prints letter-sized jobs at 70 pages per minute, regardless of media weight. Its Advanced Image Transfer Belt accepts the image from the drum then transfers all four colors to the media in a single pass.

Kiser says the high demand for color on campus motivated the in-plant to add the C7000VP, which boasts resolutions up to 1,200x1,200 dpi along with auto press calibration and multi-feed detection. One of the unique projects being printed on it are sports cards featuring UNC players. These are designed in the in-plant and printed on 12-point, 11x17˝ stock.

The DesignJet Z3100ps was added to accommodate customers’ demands for posters and banners, Kiser says.

“We had a need for this,” she affirms. “The wide-format printing was being outsourced.”

Projects output on the 44˝-wide printer include posters for the football team, printed on both canvas and coated paper, and 12-foot banners for the book store. Kiser says customers are finding more work for the printer all the time.

“We’ve had customers come in for other printing and once they find that we actually have this piece of equipment in-house, now are placing orders,” she says.