HP Designjet Z6100 60-in Printer Q6652C Merkblatt

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“We run our HP presses around the clock for long
periods of time,” says John Perez, CEO of RPI. “I tell
HP, if anyone is going to break your equipment, we
will break it, because compared to the average user
we work it much harder. However, HP delivers it all—
quality, durability and labor-saving ease of use.
Without HP, we wouldn’t be able to provide the full
range of high-quality, on-time services our partners
demand.”
RPI runs 11 HP Indigo press 5000s and drives its print-
production workflow with the HP Scalable RIP Solution
digital front end on HP BladeSystems. For wide-format
printing, RPI uses nine HP Designjet Z6100 Printers.
The company’s print volume averages 8 million color
pages a month, with heaviest loads during the peak
November/December holiday season, when the
company prints up to 20 million pages per month. For
shop floor and office functions, RPI relies on HP
Compaq Business Desktop PCs and HP LaserJet
Printers. 
The Indigo/Designjet advantage 
RPI pioneered its entrée into the Internet print market in
1999, after 20 years as a traditional commercial
printing company. Today as the manufacturing partner
for web-based business-to-consumer services, RPI
makes personalized, on-demand print products such as
notepads, note cards, stickers and photo books. “We
act as an integral part of our partners’ delivery value
chain,” Perez explains. “The consumer orders from the
partner’s branded website, incorporating their own
content into the product design. RPI fulfills and ships
the order, though from the end customers’ perspective,
it appears everything is handled by a single company.
RPI started with another manufacturer’s digital press,
but soon went looking for higher-quality output and
more-flexible press capabilities. That led to the HP
Indigo. “What turned the tide toward HP was the SRS
software,” says Perez. “We needed a rock-solid RIP
solution that could scale with our increasing volumes.
The HP Indigo Scalable RIP Solution’s high-
performance processing and automated workflows
made the HP Indigo a platform on which we could
depend.” 
Made for multi-press, high-volume, automated photo-
specialty and book printing, the HP Indigo Scalable
RIP Solution helps RPI meet demand during its peak
season, when employment can jump from a slow-
period need of 50 to as many as 225 employees
working around the clock. The RIP solution provides
auto-load balancing, centralizes workflow
management and reports production status real-time to
connected MIS systems. It’s the perfect complement to
the Indigo press 5000, HP’s digital, full-color press
combining offset quality with variable-data capabilities
for economical short-run printing. 
RPI uses its HP Indigos mostly for photo books. For
book dust covers and posters, it uses the fast, high
“What turned the tide toward HP was the
HP Indigo Scalable RIP Solution. Its
workflow automation greatly enhances the
HP Indigo’s high-volume capabilities and
gives us a platform on which we can
depend.”
John Perez, CEO, Reischling Press, Inc.,
Tukwila, Wash.
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