The Challenge:

The publisher had identified warehousing and excessive inventories as costs that needed to be minimized over the life of a title. Believing digital printing offered a logical solution, they were looking for a technology partner to guide them. After an exhaustive search they found SCI.

The SCI Solution:

The Xeikon 5/5 digital web press is responsible for increases in production speed and has reduced cost levels while maintaining the inherent advantages that digital printing offers: variability, reduced mailing costs by printing in mailing sequence, elimination of warehousing, etc.

The advantages our customer has realized are:

• Print on a Larger Range of Substrates (27lb. to 16pt.)
• Print on Demand in higher quantities than ever before
• Utilize Variable Data Printing for Custom Publishing
• Streamline Fulfillment & Distribution
• Print in a Green Sustainable fashion
• Work with a FSC certified digital printer

The Results:

• Our full color digital web technologies provide the publisher with tremendous benefits that include:
• Production times reduced to 5-7 working days
• Elimination of unnecessary warehousing cost
• Significant decreases in raw materials waste
• 30% program cost savings due to a substantial decrease in annual pages printed
• Digitally printed pieces that look the same as the conventionally printed pieces and they even use the same paper!