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SITUATION:
A customer comes into your shop at 4:00 PM with a
request for 1,000 copies of a technical manual with multiple tabs and
inserts, including front and back covers—due before 9:00 AM the next day.
THE JOB:
The manual—which must go out with a new software
release—is a 220-page booklet that has nine inserts including front
and back covers, tabs, and other inserts. The customer wants 1,000
copies of the manual for a total of 220,000 pages. Completing the job
productively requires a printer with a minimum of 10 input drawers
or the operator must pre-collate the media to work with fewer drawer
pull options.
ON THE XEROX DOCUTECH 6180:
The customer would completely miss the print window, because at
180 images per minute (or 90 sheets) the job would take 20.4 hours to
complete. What’s more, the Xerox DocuTech 6180 isn’t designed for
this level of complexity, because it is limited to six drawers, even with an
interposer. From a productivity standpoint, some of the inserts would
have to be presorted to work with only six drawers.
ON THE OCÉ VARIOPRINT 6250:
Designed-in flexibility enables the Océ VarioPrint 6250 to easily handle
an application of this complexity. Any of its drawers can function as
interposers, so the operator can load each application element in its own
input drawer. In addition, there are still two drawers to spare—that’s
two drawers you could load with additional base stock to further
increase productivity. At a speed of 250 duplex prints per minute, the
Océ VarioPrint 6250 can complete the job in 14.7 hours in the first
pass—without any additional equipment or intervention The customer
is at the front door bright and early the next morning, delighted with
the quality and turnaround.
THE RESULT:
Given the requirements of the job, in a direct face-off with the Xerox
DocuTech 6180, the Océ VarioPrint 6250 is 30 percent more produc-
tive. Only the Océ VarioPrint 6250 can meet the customer’s
requirements and deliver the application with hours to spare!
Here is another typical scenario. You have a growing commercial printshop that serves some of the area's premier
technology companies producing training and installation manuals. One of your biggest customers needs a manual
produced in record time—a complex application with post-process color interposing, covers, tabs and inserts.
Compare the difference when the manual is printed on a simplex machine and a simultaneous duplex machine.
Device
Xerox DocuTech
6180
Océ VarioPrint
6250
Letter size duplex chapter pages
and 9" tabs
180 duplex prints or 90 sheets per
minute, best case (doesn't take into
account the fact that duplex chapter
pages, simplex printing of tabs and
multiple tray pulls could slow print
speed by up to 15 percent)
250 duplex prints or 125 sheets per
minute. No loss of speed due to
input paper pulls or duplex tab
printing
Letter size duplex
chapter pages and
9" tabs
10,800 prints per
hour or 5,400 sheets
per hour
15,000 prints per
hour or 7,500 sheets
per hour
Total hours to
complete the job
20.4 hours
14.7 hours
Scenario 3 - a complex application
