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Commercial printing, like every industry, is driven by money. The most cost-effective and affordable high-quality product on offer, the more business a commercial printer is likely to have.
As customer demands grow more complex and turnaround times become tighter, production printers are searching for a solution that can handle a variety of tasks to produce high-quality and cost-effective products. This is where inkjet comes in.
Yet, not everyone is convinced. Some production printers wrongly assume that inkjet is an expensive option and wouldn't suit their business. While this could have been the case decades ago, modern inkjet production printers meet, if not surpass, expectations.
Industry experts NAPCO highlight why every business can now use inkjet to achieve more.
Businesses that are holding off from adopting inkjet are only harming themselves. Leading commercial printing businesses have already adopted inkjet and are seeing serious cost benefits. Here's how.
Once upon a time, commercial printers were pigeonholed into one job with traditional toner-based digital presses and offset printers favoring certain jobs, meaning if a client asked for something outside of the commercial printing services offered, businesses were forced to outsource.
However, when it comes to a wide variety of high-volume and color printing tasks, there's only one winner - inkjet.
Inkjet presses are designed to print a variety of materials and substrates efficiently, with far less waste and fewer consumables. As commercial printing services offer more tasks and use the device more, printing in higher volumes, the cost per page decreases. The ability to scale not only by offering more but also by printing more makes this ideal for commercial printers. From transactional mail and books to direct mail marketing materials, inkjet production printers are ready
Inkjet production printers require less maintenance than toner or offset equipment. As modern production printers are built with fewer moving parts, they help businesses not only reduce waste but also streamline operations.
With fewer skilled workers within the production printing industry, automation features like job queueing and real-time monitoring mean a single operator can often manage multiple jobs at once. This saves commercial printing businesses money without compromising output.
By using an inkjet production printer, commercial printers have more uptime with fewer service calls and less need for highly specialized operators, bringing big savings.
"Using inkjet, a school district saved over 75% per workbook."
One inkjet production printer allows you to print more and on a wide variety of substrates, from standard papers to specialty stocks, opening up more possibilities for all commercial printing businesses.
Whereas previously, businesses were forced to expensively outsource their customers' last-minute tasks. Now, with an expanded offering, commercial printing businesses can simply say yes to more customers. Ensuring everything is kept in-house allows businesses to keep a tighter control of quality, as well as security, to get customers their documents on time, to a high standard.
Today’s clients want more than just bulk printing; they want personalization on a large scale.
Inkjet makes it easy to produce highly customized pieces in a single run, whether you're printing 500 unique direct mailers or a personalized booklet for every recipient; inkjet makes it simple.
What used to be expensive and complex is now affordable and efficient with inkjet. That opens the door to premium-priced services, giving commercial printing businesses the chance to grow revenue while keeping costs low.
Inkjet presses can often replace multiple toner devices or reduce reliance on older, slower offset equipment. This lets you reclaim valuable floor space, reduce energy consumption, and simplify your production environment—all while increasing output.
The result? A leaner operation that gets more done with less.
For Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, based in California, they were met with labor shortages, as well as rising customer demands and costs.
So, when the opportunity arose to invest in inkjet technology, the school district purchased the TASKalfa Pro 15000c. Since installing the device, the district has reduced the price of printing school workbooks by over 75%.
