The 700-staff financial company recently relocated its head office across the Melbourne CBD from Collins St to its new home in Melbourne Central Tower.
As part of the move, it has established an in-plant to house the Ricoh production digital press, which has also been spec’d out with a GBC StreamPunch and ring binder for inline finishing. ME Bank also plumped for around a dozen Ricoh Aficio 7501 multifunction colour devices across different floors.
Stephen Edwards, ME Bank’s manager of corporate logistics and print, told ProPrint that as well as producing material traditionally done in-house, such as reports and board papers, the C901S would be used for more sophisticated jobs such as short-run direct marketing campaigns.
“We can look at things like doing DL flyers: print them all and trim them up rather than sending a file off to a printer to get commercially printed then sent to a mail house. We can do that here with our own mail house and print room,” he said.
Edwards said Ricoh had also installed an Equitrac system for “follow-me” printing at the new site, allowing staff to log in to any machine in the building to collect their print jobs.
He said the in-house approach also had a benefit in terms of data security. “The integrity of our customer data is maintained. Customer privacy is on of our big concerns; if we can keep it in-house, it keeps the Risk Management team happy.”
Mark Katrakis, Ricoh’s national business development manager for production solutions, said: “The good part about this was it was a development of a CRD [central reprographics department]. They didn’t have an existing print room; this was not a replacement but looking at reducing costs and becoming more efficient.”
He added that ME Bank had also installed EFI’s Digital StoreFront system for internal online ordering.
The C901S is the scanner version of Ricoh’s flagship digital colour press. It prints at up to 90 pages per minute on stocks up to 300gsm.
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