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SITUATION:
It’s Monday morning at 9:00 AM and one of your best customers comes
in with a high-priority job that must be finished and delivered at 4:00
PM. Your mission? To print, finish, and deliver 500 copies of a 200-page
booklet—100,000 pages—this afternoon.
THE JOB:
The PPO Physician’s Guide booklet must be printed and saddle-stitched
to a finished size of 8.5˝ x 11 ˝, using 16 lb. bond, ledger sized paper
stock and a 28 lb. bond pre-printed color cover. Lighter paper stocks were
chosen to reduce mailing weight and associated costs.
ON A XEROX DOCUTECH 6180:
Printing 77 ledger-size images per minute or 154 duplex letter-size pages
two-across, the DocuTech 6180 would complete the job in 10.8
hours—completely missing the deadline. Furthermore, the system can’t
satisfy the finishing requirement, leaving only one alternative—perfect
binding, which would save time, but add unnecessary cost.
ON THE OCÉ VARIOPRINT 6250:
Printing 264 letter-size duplex prints per minute two-across on ledger-
size paper, the Océ VarioPrint 6250 would complete the job in 6.3
hours, in a single shift, well within the print window. With an inline
Watkiss square-fold solution, the system can square-fold and face-trim
the booklet at rated speed, producing a professionally finished book—
more than 70 percent faster. Need it today? Consider it done.
THE RESULT:
Given the requirements of the job, the Océ VarioPrint 6250 is at
minimum 30 percent more productive than the Xerox DocuTech 6180.
Scenario 4 - breakthrough performance
How Breakthrough Performance Plays Out on the Print Room Floor
Running multi-page books and booklets is bread-and-butter work for many print-for-pay and in-plant
operations. Consider the difference the Océ VarioPrint 6250 system’s simultaneous duplexing capability
makes in this typical application.
Device
Xerox DocuTech
6180
Océ VarioPrint
6250
Prints per minute
154 two across, letter duplex on
ledger-size paper
264 two across, letter duplex on
ledger-size paper
Prints per hour
9,240
15,840
Total hours to
print job
10.8 hours
6.3 hours
