February 2009
German document service provider, T-Systems DDM, has launched into full color document printing capabilities with Kodak’s Versamark VL2000 Printing System that prints with CMYK.
While T-Systems DDM is totally committed to IT and electronic media, high volume printing of transaction documents remained an important pillar of its business.
But with the December installation of the VL2000 in Weingarten, the largest of the company’s three locations, production got even better, with color.
The VL2000 with two printing units is the first of its kind to be installed anywhere in Europe. In this wide configuration for 2-up duplex printing, the VL2000 is capable of printing two full color pages or images onto the front and back of the web simultaneously.
“We offer a comprehensive range of document management services,” explains Peter Dehm, who as Manager Customer Operations and Vendor Manager is in charge of technology at this 250-strong enterprise.
“On the input side, we accept any data format our customers care to deliver. We then standardize the data, channel it through IT production and deliver the output on a variety of media–including printed. Digital document archiving is an important part of our business.”
More than 600 million personalized A4 pages are printed and over 150 million communications enveloped and mailed every year at the Weingarten site alone–the majority either bills or statements of account.
Dehm’s prediction is that in 2009 full color production will still only account for a modest share of total business. He estimates that approximately 20 per cent of all pages produced on the VL2000 will be four color and the remainder black and white.
For next year, however, Dehm is anticipating a major breakthrough that sees a planning volume of more than 150 million pages with 60 per cent in full color.
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