Dipping Their Wings in the Inkjet Pond

摘要

If you peek beneath the feathers and webbed feet of the iconic Aflac Duck advertising character, you will find an in-house inkjet printing powerhouse that produces a heavy print workload for insurance industry giant Aflac's wide customer base. Located at Aflac's worldwide headquarters in Columbus, GA, the Support Services group is responsible for producing the bulk of the Fortune 500 company's transactional printing. Support Services uses a pair of production inkjet presses to print approximately 95 percent of the company's transactional printing jobs, both in black-and-white and color. In 2011, Aflac installed a Pitney Bowes IntelliJet 20 roll-to-cut-sheet printing system (based on the HP T200 press) with slitting, merging, cutting and stacking capabilities. The shop added a second IJ20 printer to its fleet last December.