Digital Printing-Digital Offset

Mercury Print Productions, Rochester, NY, will be taking delivery of the first B1-format Landa S10P nanographic digital press in the U.S. on Nov. 10, with plans to having the perfecting press up and running in about one month.

A Texas Water Utility In-plant has installed a certified pre-owned Presstek 34DI direct imaging offset press. The decision to get the press came after the Communications department decided to redesign its two-color monthly customer newsletter as a four-color publication.

In mid-2016, the in-plant at a Texas-based drinking water and sewage utility starting working with Presstek to secure a certified pre-owned Presstek 34DI direct imaging offset press to replace its two-color ABDick 9995. It was expected to be a smooth installation, despite the fact that the in-plant had to hire a crane to lift the 10,000-lb. […]

To capture more four-color recruitment work, Valdosta State University Printing and Copying Services installed a four-color press.

Frank Oliver, print shop supervisor at Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego Board of Cooperative Educational Services (DCMO BOCES) Print Shop in Norwich, N.Y., admits his in-plant was actually losing work before investing in a Presstek 34DI.

Producing marketing materials for multiple college campuses is no easy task, but with 36 campuses nationwide, Columbia College needed a way to print a large volume of booklets without increasing its in-plant’s staff.

By installing a direct imaging Presstek 52 DI press, not only did the Print Center at the Colorado Department of Transportation boost its productivity, it also boosted workplace morale.

“The demand for two-color has definitely declined over the years,” remarks Ryan Podeweltz, production print supervisor at Church Mutual Insurance Co. As a result, the one- and two-color Hamada presses at the Merrill, Wis., in-plant were no longer as busy as they once were, leaving the shop’s four employees in a precarious position.

It's a familiar story: an organization needs the space occupied by its in-plant, so the in-plant is sent packing. Most of the time no studies are done on whether this is a cost-effective plan; an administrator just makes the call, leaving the in-plant's customers to deal with the aftermath as best they can.

Since overseeing the installation of a Presstek 34DI digital offset press last July, Al Goranson, manager of Imaging Services at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has achieved his goal of taking in more long-run, full-color work. “As our volume of four-color work continued to grow, especially in run lengths greater than 1,000, we needed something that could produce the work at a cheaper cost than our HP Indigo 3050 digital press,” recalls Goranson. “We had opportunities on longer runs that were just not economic to produce on the Indigo. That was why we chose the Presstek 34DI press.”