Case Study
Radically Reducing Publishing Costs with Production Inkjet
The Challenge: K-12 CURRICULUM BOOKS OUT-PACE IN-HOUSE CAPACITY In 2017, Office Depot printed and distributed 800,000 books for 400 school districts from their Grand Prairie, Texas facility. The books consist of mostly black and white inside pages with color covers. While the project generated over $15 million in revenue, it also came with significant process and cost impacts for the organization. Each month during their peak processing time – April through July – over 10 million pages had to be printed. Those volumes exceeded the capacity of their in-house fleet of Xerox ® Nuvera ® EA Production Systems, so Office Depot had to rely on costly outsourcing to deliver the job. While investing in additional cut sheet equipment was an option, the Grand Prairie team kn