A new Kodak NexPress 2500 has brought big opportunities to the University of Mississippi.

By Chris Bauer

A Self-supported In-plant

Printing and Graphic Services is a non-funded part of the University of Mississippi, and does not have first right of refusal, forcing the shop to be competitive and self-sustaining. The printing operation boasts annual revenue of $1.8 million and has a repair and replacement fund that allows it to buy new equipment as technology evolves.

To help cushion the bottom line, the shop insources work from other state departments, universities and colleges, and from the outside sector. Since there are no other four-color printers or bulk mail processers in Oxford, Miss., there is no conflict.

“We are kind of an oasis since we are 60 miles from any really big town,” Seaman points out. “We are uniquely positioned in that we don’t have a print shop on every corner and we are not in a metropolitan area where we have a lot of competition. But we also don’t want to sit back, high on the hog, and say ‘we don’t have to be competitive,’ because we have to be.”

MAY DAY, observed as a holiday in his native England, proved to be a busy day for Tony Seaman. The director of Printing and Graphic Services at the University of Mississippi put the in-plant’s new five-color Kodak NexPress 2500 digital press into service on May 1, leaving little time to dance around the Maypole.

In-plant Snapshot

University of Mississippi
Printing and Graphic Services
Employees: 17
Annual Revenue: $1.8 million

Key Equipment:
• Screen Katana four-up imagesetter
• Howtek 8000 drum scanner
• Kodak Plate processor
• Kodak NexPress 2500 with Nexglosser
• Xerox DocuTech 6115 with Freeflow
• Xerox 4110 with booklet maker
• Xerox 242 with Firey RIP and Booklet Maker
• Four-color, 20x28? Akiyama Bestech 428
• Two-color Hamada 665CD
• Two-color Hamada 665CD envelope press
• Two-color, 14x20? Omni Adast 526P
• Two-color, 20.5x29? Heidelberg SORMZ
• One-color Hamada 500 CDA
• Heidelberg KORD 18x25?
• Heidelberg Windmill for die cutting
• Baum Ultra Fold XLT folder
• MBO T49 folder with angles and gate folds
• 20-bin Duplo System 5000 booklet maker
• Polar 92X programmable cutter
• Pitney Bowes 790 addresser with IR Driers
• Accufast KT2 double tabber
• Six-station Pitney Bowes DI 950 inserter

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