ADP reaps the benefits of new digital capacity

Print Solutions

Advantage Digital Print in Dorset is enjoying a range of benefits since installing a new Ricoh Pro C9110.

Charles Anderson, director of ADP, commented: ‘We are enjoying a more economical click rate, lower energy bills and the ability to print with higher quality and on a wider range of stocks. Our uptime is considerably better with the Ricoh; the engineers are readily available and remote diagnostics has resolved some situations before we even needed an engineer.’

ADP was formerly the digital print department of the old Friary Press, located just outside Dorchester. It was established nine years ago, when Charles purchased Friary’s digital department from its then owner, Media and Print Investments. ADP remains in the old Friary Press site and has a comprehensive bindery that includes PUR binding and lamination, as well as its digital printing expertise.

Charles continued, ‘The press does much the same kind of job as our previous machine, but with a lot less power consumption and a much smaller footprint. We are seeing significant savings just on those sorts of things. We are going to reduce our electricity bills by at least a third, for example. The Ricoh press operates in normal room conditions too, and not having to put in air conditioning is a big saving as well. It is also much quieter – it is just less intrusive.’