The hardest part about getting new equipment during a pandemic is not being able to use it. That's what the University of Michigan's Print, Copy, Mail department is facing after adding a pair of Canon imagePRESS C10000VP digital presses in March — just as the COVID-19 slowdown began. With far fewer jobs and limited staff in the Ann Arbor-based in-plant right now, the presses are taunting Printing Services Supervisor Roger Meyers. "We've hardly even had a chance to use [them] yet," he says. "We're just raring to go right now." The 100-ppm digital presses replace two 70-ppm Canon imagePRESS C7010VPs that were five and seven years old. Meyers acknowledges he would have liked to replace them sooner, but the shop had been seriously investigating production inkjet presses, before eventually determining the time was not yet right. Meyers praises the sharp image quality produced by the C10000VPs, as well as their faster speeds. "We're 43% faster on these presses compared to the old ones," he proclaims. "It's really a nice upgrade."
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