Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 helps grow color print production business
Jul 19, 2011 1:33 PM
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. announces Firehouse Printing has grown its color print production business 18% with the bizhub PRESS C8000 color digital press. With it, Firehouse has been able to expand its business beyond the production of training materials to offer customers quick-turn, higher quality, color printing options for heavy-stock postcards, direct mail flyers, business cards and billing inserts.
With continued advancement of digital printing, Firehouse customers are requesting features such as exact color profiling, crisper images with higher resolutions and the ability to run heavier stock paper. Firehouse Printing selected the bizhub PRESS C8000 with the Fiery Image Controller and EFI Fiery Graphic Arts Premium Edition to help them meet customer demand and provide the company with a competitive edge. Firehouse now offers sophisticated color management tools and can save individual customer color profiles to ensure that the specific colors are consistent for each print job saving the production team time and keeping customers coming back for more services.
“The bizhub PRESS C8000 meets all of our expectations and is reliable, fast and easily handles any job we put at it,” says Firehouse production manager Pablo Ramirez. “Not only does it have more robust features, but it requires less maintenance from facility operators allowing us to free up resources. More importantly, with the bizhub PRESS C8000 we have expanded our business to become a one-stop printing solution for our customers.”
Firehouse runs 100,000 to 120,000 impressions monthly through the bizhub PRESS C8000 and the print quality and color reportedly remains consistent on all print jobs from the first impression to the last. Firehouse can quickly turnaround press quality materials with heaver substrates ranging from 100 to 130 pounds cover stock. The Dual Fusing feature allows Firehouse to run thicker stock at near full rated speed. In addition, the company has not experienced any paper curling with the hybrid decurling and humidifier option. This combined with the air vacuum paper feeding ensures that all paper moves quickly and smoothly through the system.
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