DIGITAL digest 12/00

TULSA, OK—The 500th Heidelberg Quickmaster DI press to be installed in the U.S. reportedly is helping Odyssey Digital Printing continue its torrid growth rate of 80 percent annually. Management describes the company as a "boutique facility" that runs two Heidelberg DI presses, a toner-based digital press and three large-format sign printers. With the QM DI, "we're cutting 10 extra minutes from the makeready of every job," says Jan Fairless, vice president. "That adds up to extra capacity that we need because our customers keep supplying us with more and more work for our Quickmaster DIs." While the shop can handle any digital printing project, Fairless adds that four-color newsletters account for the bulk of the work run on the DIs.