Color Ink Commercial Print Company – Texas Flatbed Printer
By upgrading to the highly automated Texas flatbed printer, Color Ink, a third-generation commercial printing business, successfully doubled its overall productivity while reducing tedious manual setup times. Watch this success story to see how this cutting-edge technology helps to seamlessly handle diverse media and provides commercial print providers with a sizeable competitive advantage.
Color Ink Accelerates Production with the Support of the Texas Flatbed Printer
In the highly competitive commercial printing industry, businesses must continuously adapt to shifting market demands to remain relevant. For Color Ink, a distinguished third-generation commercial printer, evolution has always been a core component of their overarching business strategy.
Over the years, the organization has successfully transitioned to focus heavily on point-of-purchase retail displays, alongside offering a diverse range of structural design services. When clients approach the facility with raw concepts and request custom builds, Color Ink takes full ownership of the creative process, meticulously selecting the optimal materials and driving the design from start to finish. To support this expansive creative freedom across its offset, cutsheet digital and wide-format print departments, the organization is constantly on the hunt for cutting-edge capabilities and modern finishing solutions.
Despite their robust manufacturing infrastructure, Color Ink recognized the need to upgrade their wide-format printing capabilities to help handle complex creative demands. When evaluating equipment, the organization established strict operational criteria. The facility needed a modern printing solution that offered a highly reasonable total cost of ownership, outstanding overarching productivity, and maximized machine uptime.
Furthermore, maintaining mechanical reliability and ensuring the stability of the printheads were absolute necessities to help prevent costly interruptions. Historically, older legacy printers often burdened operators with complex, manual setups and cumbersome maintenance routines that drained daily efficiency. To help overcome these manufacturing bottlenecks, Color Ink required a streamlined printing system that featured intelligent automation, allowing their highly skilled operators to focus on producing high-quality creative work rather than constantly wrestling with complex machine adjustments.
To help solve these operational challenges and elevate their wide-format production capabilities, Color Ink turned to Canon to support them in their strategic decision to invest in the Texas flatbed printer. For Color Ink, the printer held immense appeal due to its brilliantly streamlined design, making it easy for operators to understand, utilize, and maintain on a daily basis. The equipment introduces critical automation to the production floor, helping to eliminate much of the tedious manual labor previously required.
Notably, the printer features a sophisticated auto-reader that instantly detects the specific thickness of the loaded material. This intelligent feature helps to accelerate the setup process, empowering operators to seamlessly transition from one custom job to the next with excellent speed.
Furthermore, the transition to this advanced technology was remarkably smooth. While installing new hardware often involves weeks of working through operational bugs, Canon ensured that Color Ink was fully up and running in just a couple of days. The Canon team provided detailed, on-site training that thoroughly prepared the staff to help maximize the machine's potential right out of the gate.
The implementation of the Texas flatbed printer has helped deliver transformative, highly measurable business benefits across Color Ink's entire production floor. From a financial perspective, the efficiency of the new Canon system helped to reduce the facility's overall ink costs by approximately 30 percent when directly compared to their previous legacy printer. Operationally, the technology has proven to be a powerhouse, operating at about twice the productivity level of the company's older machines. This massive surge in high-quality, high-speed output has helped Color Ink to increase its overarching profits while still offering highly competitive pricing to its loyal customer base.
Beyond sheer financial gains, the printer delivers outstanding media versatility. The machine performs flawlessly on an incredibly wide range of substrates, effortlessly handling everything from rigid two-inch Ultra board to expanded PVC. Operators report that the machine offers some of the best visual quality they have ever worked with.
Furthermore, daily maintenance is brilliantly simple; operators can easily keep the printheads clean during their shifts with quick bursts, resulting in virtually zero unscheduled downtime. Supported by Canon's accessible service network, Color Ink has successfully secured a highly reliable, incredibly productive future in the competitive retail display market.
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