Kansas In-plant Ditches Offset, Adds Digital Press

For more than 40 years, the Kansas State High School Activities Association has run offset presses in its Topeka in-plant. Faced with aging equipment and a scarcity of parts, KSHSAA recently decided to make the move from analog to digital printing by adding an MGI Meteor DP8700 S.

“The Meteor S was the only digital printer that has the ability to meet all of our printing needs,” says Bob Maendele, IT director for KSHSAA. “We are able to print all of our 11x17˝ publications and posters, as well as print envelopes of all sizes, a key feature that attracted us the Meteor S. The versatility of the Meteor S is creating new opportunities for us. We are now looking at using synthetic materials to create passes and other new possibilities that were not available to us with offset.”