Bob Jones University Press Installs Landa S10P Press

BJU Press, the in-plant for Bob Jones University and also a producer of textbooks and materials that support Christian educators, has installed a Landa S10P Nanographic Printing Press in its Greenville, South Carolina facility. The Landa S10P joins an HP T485 Page Wide inkjet press and replaces an eight-color offset press to meet the publisher’s immediate need for high-quality book covers and the growing education manipulatives category. Though about 5% of the operation's work is done for the university, the majority of what BJU Press prints is textbooks and other educational materials.

James Llewellyn, Director of Manufacturing and Distribution, BJU Press.

“The S10P gives us the operational effectiveness of digital, but with the color and quality to match or exceed offset print,” says James Llewellyn, director of Manufacturing and Distribution. “It does this while also providing a list of features you just can’t find on another, single, press – ultimately allowing us to manufacture publications much more cost effectively, and placing those items into the hands of students faster. It’s the next generation of digital sheetfed printing, and in our view represents a new benchmark for print.”

Since 2019, BJU Press has successfully moved most of its work to digital presses. However, the higher imaging quality and heavier paper requirements of textbook cover and manipulatives production gave BJU Press no choice but to continue relying on a more expensive and cumbersome offset workflow.

“There was nothing just-in-time about these applications on offset,” Llewellyn says as he explains how BJU Press remained hindered by the time and costs associated with manual collating, assembly, and sending out for die-cutting.

Landa brings a printer’s wish list of exclusive features to BJU Press, including those necessary to its book cover and manipulatives work: unparalleled color and image quality, an exhaustive range of substrate choices, collating, and B1 format allowing re-use of existing dies.

Now, the seven-color Landa S10P – with support of a new digital cutter – will allow BJU Press to rapidly create and finish its manipulatives, as well as produce the vibrant, attention-getting book covers essential to the BJU Press brand… and get it all done in-house.

“Our aim was to provide the next generation of printing press, with no trade-offs,” says Sharon Cohen, Landa’s Chief Business Officer. “To deliver on this, we knew the press must have the speed, color and image quality, format, digital variability and sustainability attributes to meet every expectation. As such, we’re always delighted to hear customer feedback that validates this ambition.”

Source: Landa Digital Printing

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