Inkjet & Digital Printing

The Church Bulletin, Inc. Goes Inkjet

Monday 08. February 2016 - Nestled on the south shore of Long Island, NY, The Church Bulletin Inc. is a family-owned printer of weekly church bulletins and school materials, with a history of over one hundred years of service to parishes and schools on Long Island and beyond. Church bulletin printing is a little-known specialty within the general print sector. When you see a church bulletin at a service, you probably envision someone cranking it out on a mimeograph machine in the church basement.

In reality, bulletins, monthly church magazines, and other materials are a big business, with dozens of specialty printers servicing many thousands of individual churches and larger organizations across the country. Until recently, almost 100% of these were offset-printed. The problem with printing bulletins using offset technology is that the majority of the print runs are somewhere between 600 – 800 bulletins. This means that the average press runtime for a bulletin is around eight minutes, followed by another eight minutes (or more) spent on plate changes, press adjustments, and running the press up to color. All of these factors put a practical limit on the number of bulletin jobs that can be run in an hour.

The WEBJet 200D eliminates most of these offset issues, and dramatically improves productivity by giving you the ability to run both small and larger runs “back-to-back” continuously. An inkjet press can do the work of several offset presses in this application. For The Church Bulletin Inc., this was the “clincher,” so the inkjet press they selected was the WEBJet 200D. This was not an easy decision, since it would be the company’s single largest investment. George S. Keenan, III, The Church Bulletin’s President says, “the single most compelling reason we chose the WEBJet 200D was the cost per copy and the quality of the printing.” The WEBJet 200D uses Memjet page-width print heads at a resolution of 1600 x 1375 dots-per-inch, the highest print resolution in the industry.

The press install went smoothly, and within two weeks, The Church Bulletin Inc. was cranking out bulletins like clockwork.