ME Bankand Ricoh

ME Bank can send less work out to print suppliers

thanks to its powerful new in-house print arsenal, led by

a Ricoh Pro C901S digital colour press.

The 700-staff financial company recently relocated its head office across the Melbourne CBD from Collins St to its new home in Melbourne Central Tower.

As part of the move, it has established an in-plant [printroom] to

house the Ricoh production digital press, which has also been spec’d

out with a GBC StreamPunch and ring binder for inline finishing.

ME Bank also plumped for around a dozen Ricoh AficiotmMP C7501

multifunction colour devices across different floors.

Stephen Edwards, ME Bank’s manager of corporate logistics and print,

told ProPrint that as well as producing material traditionally done

in-house, such as reports and board papers, the Ricoh Pro C901s

would be used for more sophisticated jobs such as short-run direct

marketing campaigns.

“We can look at things like doing DL flyers: print them all and trim

them up rather than sending a file off to a printer to get commercially

printed then sent to a mail house. We can do that here with our own

mail house and print room,” he said.

Edwards said Ricoh had also installed an Equitrac system for

‘Follow-You Printing’ at the new site, allowing staff to log in to

any machine in the building to collect their print jobs.

He said the in-house approach also had a benefit in terms of data

security. “The integrity of our customer data is maintained. Customer

privacy is one of our big concerns; if we can keep it in-house, it keeps

the Risk Management team happy.”

Mark Katrakis, Ricoh’s National Business Development Manager for

production solutions, said: “The good part about this was it was a

development of a CRD [central reprographics department]. They didn’t

have an existing print room; this was not a replacement but looking at

reducing costs and becoming more efficient.”

He added that ME Bank had also installed EFI’s Digital StoreFront

system for internal online ordering.

The Ricoh Pro C901s is the scanner version of Ricoh’s flagship

digital colour press. It prints at up to 90 pages per minute on stocks

up to 300 gsm.

Original story by Steven Kiernan

Source: ProPrint, Jun 20, 2011

ME Bank builds a new future

with Ricoh’s Pro C901

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