DIGITAL digest

OPM has been running its Prosper 1000 since July, consistently producing books for sale in bookstores without a single reject. It now has the Prosper 5000XL set to produce offset-quality, color books for the next book season.

Mitch Weiss, vice president of sales at arvato, explained that the most important advantage of the Prosper Press platform is that it can deliver four-color printing in short runs. One machine has reportedly replaced three competitive digital presses. So far at OPM, the Prosper has produced about 400,000 books with an uptime of 75 percent, providing the capacity to produce between 4,800 to 6,000 books per shift. Target run lengths range from 500 to 3,000 books.