Case Study - 7
Mail Fulfilment House

The customer produced high volume mail shots for clients and also had a need to produce high volumes of printed self address labels. This work is produced in black and white and traditionally had been produced on a collection of old laser printers.

The major issues concerned reliability, particularly with laser labels jamming in the machines and the need thereafter to Z fold the A4 letters ready for envelope insertion. The folding machine was becoming unreliable and much of the work was therefore being carried out by hand and there were complaints as to the neatness and accuracy of folds. Further there was a need to continually refill the printers with paper and ensure it was placed in-situ the right way round.

The solution was to introduce 2 Canon iR5075 high speed black and white photocopiers with network print with staple finishers and a folder unit to perform the folding post fuser. This meant that the folding became part of the print production and reduced the manual element. The paper supply means most jobs can now be processed in one run, the machine has a 4,200 sheet on line supply.

Labels are processed through a bypass feed that means they are printed on a straight through paper path, this has reduced jams to virtually nil and reduced wastage dramatically.

On larger jobs split across the two machines the client is printing at 150 pages per minute, which in real terms means a 10,000 page print is now produced in around 1 hour with a minimum of paper refilling, (one per machine) that can be performed whilst the Photocopier utilises other paper trays so no lost productivity.

Currently the client is considering introducing a colour printer and at a later date will be looking into introducing variable data printing as part of their offering to clients.