High-Speed Inkjet Presses : Real-World Experiences

Currently, the Kodak Prosper is fed with Mercury’s eMerx XML/JDF-driven front-end workflow for work orders, job prep and imposition. During the peak season, Mercury handles hundreds of jobs simultaneously. It is not unusual to have 30 to 50 jobs on the same roll.

Although Mercury’s volume dictates that it focus the digital press on the educational marketplace, going forward that may change. “We are only just beginning to look into the other markets that we could enter,” says Place. “There are a lot of avenues, such as financial, which we’re not touching right now. Eventually, we will begin tapping into the full-variable 
capability of the press, but we have to be careful because we’ve already been maxing out its production capacity.”