The Challenge: For churches and schools on tight budgets, the cost of color printing with laser copiers is prohibitive.
The Solution: The Epson WorkForce® Enterprise WF-C20590 inkjet printer delivered the speed, quality and consistent reliability required, while Epson’s PrecisionCore technology has saved the firm money on ink. The addition of print management software has helped CRW turn printing into a revenue driver instead of an expense. Click the link below to view the full case study.
Epson Inkjet Printing Drives Church Productivity
Disruptive inkjet technology ideal for school and church high-volume printing, says former administrator
Epson is poised to remake the printer and copier business, says Ed Reigadas, who spent 16 years heading the purchasing and insurance departments of the Archdiocese of New York. “Epson has developed an efficient technology, designed for simple and reliable printers,” Reigadas says. “We believe their precisionCore® inkjet technology is goingto stand the copier business on its head.”
Serving Catholic Schools and Churches
In 2012, Reigadas became Executive Director of Institutional Commodity Services (ICS), a company wholly owned by the Archdiocese to handle its procurement. “One of the things I learned was that, as the schools moved away from textbooks to online curricula, they had a greater need than ever for printing.”
He explains that, as their printing needs grew, most Archdiocese schools purchased a small laser or inkjet printer for each classroom teacher. “Desktop printers are cheap, because the money is in the toner or ink,” he says. “But the problem is that the school was paying for a ton of toner cartridges, and we could see that was a poor use of their funds.” Reigadas started a drive to purchase enterprise printer/copiers that everyone could share, installing them in convenient places, usually one per floor. “We told the teachers they could keep their classroom printers if they wished, but the schools would no longer buy the toner or ink. ”The financing, he says, was a crucial factor. “Very few parishes could write a check to buy one of these machines, but they could afford a print-as-you-go program.” Instead, ICS purchased the new machines and leased them to the schools on a percopyprinted basis.
The program was very successful, but Reigadas says the schools and churches wanted color printing — the cost of which was, on their budget, prohibitive using laser. In addition to the cost of toner, with the laser printers they had, they experienced other problems, Reigadas says. “If it’s a humid day, the paper goes into the machine, curls as it heats up, and jams.” What happens next depends on the person in charge of the machine. Reigadas tells the story of a secretary at a school in Staten Island, who simply could not deal with a paper jam. ICS was constantly sending technicians out to unjam her copier. “Even at our main office, the data center people would go crazy, unable to get their machine to work.” An even bigger problem with their laser printers was that, in order to create a color print, their laser printers used a fourcolor process that requires four drums, four fusers, and four supplies of toner. They found that using those printers became an energy-intensive, costly method, according to Reigadas. The schools and churches simply could not afford that.
Serving Catholic Schools and Churches
Reigadas believes the Epson WorkForce Enterprise network printers/copiers are ideal for schools or churches. The WF-C17590 prints 75 ISO color or black and white pages per minute, single or double sided, and the WF-C20590 100 ISO pages per minute. Both, with an optional finisher that can sort and staple the copies. Both printers use up to 50% less power than color lasers. This patented technology also provides high-capacity replacement ink cartridges*.
“With Epson inkjet technology, I believe the Archdiocese schools and churches can afford color printing,” Reigadas says. “Epson’s inkjet technology is a lot easier for everyone involved. And given the price, especially the price of color printing, it’s very, very good for schools and churches.”
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