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Thanks to a new four-color press, the Texas Department of Transportation's in-plant has drastically increased its productivity and is bringing outsourced work back in-house.
THIRTY YEARS is a long time to keep a press running-even a Heidelberg. But over the past three decades, the folks at the Texas Department ofTransportation (TXDOT) did their best to take care of their four-color Heidelberg MOVP perfector, even if it did cost them an average of S60,000 a year for repairs.
By 2013, though, the excessive paper waste and quality limitations of the old press had gotten to be too much, and Printing Services began its search for a replacement press. In February of this year, the 28-employee Austin-based in-plant installed a new four-color Ryobi 754G XL with an aqueous coater. Boasting CIP4 JDF capability and Ryobi's PDF-E Spectro print density control system, the new press is a "quantum leap" forward for the operation, says Production Supervisor Art Garcia.
"When we pull the first sheet, almost every...