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Sealing their Reputation as a Can-Do Printer
Tinker Business Forms goes big time with high-speed envelope printer

Printing envelopes can be a sticky job. However, with their new Jet Press envelope printer, Tinker Business Forms has perfected the art of producing envelopes with speed and accuracy.

“The Jet Press has put us in a unique sector of the printing market,” said David Mann, production manager. “Instead of competing with small, or even large commercial printers, we are now competing with paper mills when it comes to printing envelopes.” He said the biggest difference between Tinker and the mills is that the mills print before folding the envelope, allowing one pass to print what will be both sides of the folded envelope. Tinker prints on pre-folded envelopes, still in just one pass, making their competition with the mills quite impressive.

 

The Jet Press not only prints two colors on both sides of the envelope at the same time, but it does so at an extraordinary speed. Before acquiring the Jet Press, Tinker could print 5,000-6,000 envelopes an hour; now they can crank out 30,000 per hour.

“We purchased this machine because we wanted the envelope business,” said Mann. “Customers come to us because we have a real fast turnaround on very large fulfillments—one to two days—when other printers say a week.” Mann credits Tinker’s recent increase in envelope business to the large number of envelopes they can print in a short amount of time. “Companies doing massive mailings of five hundred thousand pieces or larger are now coming to us to do the job,” said Mann.

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