Ink World staff10.06.20
UniPrint, the in-plant printing facility for The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) has installed a Komori Lithrone G37 five-color offset press (GL537) to replace two older offset presses.
As an in-plant shop, UniPrint accepts a wide range of work from University faculty, departments and students, as well as placing and maintaining all the multi-functional devices and desktop printers on campus.
Although the shop works strictly for internal customers (who can opt to buy print services from outside vendors), UniPrint has a staff of 36 full-time workers and, through the school year, adds 20 to 25 student employees to manage ongoing demand.
“We’ve always been a full-service printer for the University, so we have offset printing, digital printing, wide-format and produce interior wayfinding signage,” said Jeff Dible, director, UniPrint, The Ohio State University. “We print anything and everything across the campus, from business cards up through case bound coffee table-type books. We print high-end four-color offset publications like alumni magazines and do a lot of marketing materials for The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and its affiliates.”
UniPrint also produces 250 different educational packages for the University’s agricultural extension program, such as kits for 4-H Club students, fulfilling orders and shipping these materials to all 88 counties across the state.
"We’ve been running some numbers since the press has been installed, and we’ll be able to do everything about 60% faster than what we were doing on both our older presses," Dible said. "Our turnaround time will decrease and the quality will bring us up to today’s standards. We already do about 80% of the University’s work and this press will help get us the other 20%.”