MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Delphax Technologies
Inc. (OTC: DLPX), a global provider of high-speed digital printing
equipment, announced today that it has launched its new
elan™ digital color print system with the inaugural
sale of an elan 500 to one of the nation's premier
direct mail companies, CompuMail Inc.
Powered by Memjet, the elan 500, which combines
major advances in inkjet and paper-handling technologies, is a
robust production class sheet-fed system offering full color and
1600 dpi print quality at speeds of up to 500 impressions per
minute. The sale follows a beta test by CompuMail that
included production of more than 15 million letter-sized images,
24-hour client turnaround and two to three shifts per day during
peak production.
"elan has enabled us to complete 10,000 letters in
just one hour compared to our current fleet of four machines taking
three hours." said Sam Andreasen,
chief operating officer of CompuMail. "The consistency and
quality of elan's output from the first sheet to last
sheet is impressive. The elan is a production
workhorse at an affordable price."
CompuMail, based in Concord,
Calif., and Delphax worked with well-known document
solutions provider Ray Morgan Company to implement installation of
the equipment.
"As the first elan customer, CompuMail has given
us the highest endorsement possible in its technology of choice to
support future color growth in the direct mail marketplace," said
Dieter Schilling, president and
chief executive officer of Delphax. "We believe elan
offers CompuMail not only greater competitiveness, but also the
ability to reshape its market. elan's
combination of price, sheet-fed configuration and performance make
versatile high-quality color printing affordable—and profitable—for
this key market segment."
The elan digital front end (DFE) uses the Adobe
PDF document format for both publishing and variable workflow,
driven by Delphax's unique scalable RIP architecture. "The
elan PDF workflow gave us a simple and cost-effective
integration with our HP workflow without binding us to a
proprietary system," Andreasen said. "The intuitive
touch-screen interface simplifies the operator experience, keeping
input options clear and uncomplicated. Comprehensive
reporting systems provide detailed metrics and permit real-time
analysis of system performance for CompuMail operators."
elan's combination of speed and sheet size make it
the fastest cut sheet inkjet printer in the market today. It
gives CompuMail an 8-to-1 productivity advantage over its existing
electrophotographic devices.
elan is Delphax's response to a growing customer
demand for more efficient, versatile and affordable color printing
equipment, and it promises to be ideal for commercial
print-on-demand challenges in direct mail, transpromotional,
billing, statements and book or manual publishing. Its
variable data, spot color and MICR capability are also expected to
make elan attractive to many other
printing market segments.
A pioneer in digital print production, Delphax has captured the
largest worldwide market share in check-printing applications,
developing a highly regarded global customer-service and support
organization in the process.
"We are positioning elan to have a
much broader market appeal than we could ask from our existing
monochrome products," Schilling said. "It represents an
entirely new category of digital print technology and offers a
combination of price and performance that is unmatched today and
long awaited by the market."
About Delphax Technologies Inc.
Delphax Technologies
Inc. is a global leader in the design, manufacture and delivery of
advanced digital print production systems. For more than 30 years,
Delphax Technologies has pioneered high-speed digital imaging
innovations that improve throughput and enhance efficiencies for
publishers, direct marketers and other commercial print customers
where cost and quality are important. The Delphax Technologies
portfolio includes specialized full color inkjet or monochrome
inkjet and toner technologies that are ideal for a wide range of
applications over a broad spectrum of substrates from
ultra-lightweight paper to heavy stock in both roll-fed and
cut-sheet print environments. Delphax Technologies is headquartered
in Minneapolis, Minn., USA with
subsidiaries in Canada, the
United Kingdom and France. The company's common stock is
currently quoted over the counter under the symbol DLPX. Additional
information is available on the company's website at
www.delphax.com.
About CompuMail Inc.
CompuMail is one of the premier
direct mail companies in the United
States and is headquartered in Concord, Calif. Since 1992, CompuMail
has been identified as "the best collection agency mail vendor" by
providing superior direct mail solutions to hundreds of collection
agencies and other debt collection companies throughout the United
States.
About Ray Morgan Company
Established in 1956, the Ray
Morgan Company (RMC) has grown to be one of the largest independent
dealers in the western United
States. Headquartered in Chico,
Calif., RMC has two Regional Headquarters in Roseville and Fresno, Calif., and 18 branch offices
strategically located in central and northern California and western Nevada. The
company offers technologically advanced solutions that can
dramatically increase productivity and reduce costs in the areas of
document management, output and reproduction. The ownership
group is actively involved in day-to-day operations: always one
phone call away from any customer issue.
SOURCE Delphax Technologies Inc.