Roanoke College Print Shop Hosts Open House

More than 60 customers attended an open house in the Roanoke College print shop last week. Jacob Jackson, Information Technology Systems support manager at the Salem, Va.-based college hosted the event to show off the in-plant's Ricoh production equipment and the print shop’s capabilities. Ricoh provided refreshments and several door prizes.

“We had a much larger crowd than I had anticipated, which was great," says Jackson. "I was especially thrilled that our director of Public Relations attended. In talking with her, it was clear that there were many things that she was unaware of and some things that she had been confused about.”

The in-plant retired its offset equipment a couple of years ago, and earlier this year added a Ricoh Aficio MP C6000 color copier and a Ricoh Pro 1106EX high-volume digital printer with a perfect binder, stapler, three-hole punch and a breakaway booklet maker. It also added an EFI MicroPress, an MBM Triumph cutter and a DestroyIt 4002cc shredder.

“The open house was very successful because there were many students that had no idea that Roanoke College even had a print shop," remarks Sue Tryon, who operates the in-plant's equipment, along with four part-time students.