Book Business EXTRA! Q&A -- Xerox’s New Technology Helps Customize Teaching Materials Digitally
At Mercury Print (Book Division in Rochester, N.Y.), they reduced prepress setup time from 30 hours to 30 minutes. It’s just incredible. They were our initial test customer.
EXTRA! -- From a production standpoint, will this technology save printers money?
Yelencsics -- Absolutely. In the past, what happened was that for each state there is a different book--even for each school district. There were several skilled employees who would pull the pages out of a PDF repository, manually bring these together and send them to the printer. Then they would manually collate the books. That’s tons of manual labor. ...With the new process, you basically have one operator. It’s an integration, with lightweight papers, to create a custom teacher’s edition book that has each page that can be customized for each state. ... It calls out and assembles that book for Pennsylvania, [for example] and creates a completely collated book.
- Companies:
- Xerox Corp.