I'm curious .. How many of you have more than one Igen? How many do you have, how many shifts do you run, what is your average output (per machine), what type of work are you producing?

We have one at our shop and plan on a second very shortly. We are running 2 shifts with an occasional 3rd and doing about 700k a month.


Thanks for your input..

Dale

Our company recently upgraded from the Xerox DocuColor6060 to two I-Gen3's. We then had four operators and myself do the three week training for the Level2 customer maintenance(highly recomended for new operators) so we could perform about 60%-75% of the maintenance. After only having them for about 2 months we are now considering gettting two more and eliminating about 95% of our jobs using pre-printed stock. Currently we are running about 80,000 to 100,000 per I-Gen a day across two to three shifts.

what type of work are you running? variable, high quality commercial / agency, inplant, etc.?

how many days per month are you maintaining those volumes?

what sizes are you typically printing?

Typically we image short run jobs that are "On Demand" that we recieve the same day during the morning shift. We do run variable on one of the I-Gen's both shifts and usually 5 to 6 days a week. We do a broad spectrum of quality from letters with some color to full size manuals (200 to 400 pages each) all the way to brochures and newsletters. This runs like I said 5 to 6 days a week all month. Most sizes we do are 8.5" X 11" to 11" X 17"

3 iGens, 3 shifts (2-man), 24 hours...

We mostly run 12x18 80#, 100#, 110# Cover stocks.

Most of our runs are small, between 50-1000 pieces. But we average 300-400 jobs a day.

Hello Paipia...welcome aboard.

When you say 3 shifts (2 man)....does that translate to you having 6 full time iGen operators per shift? 2 per machine?

If you are running such large volumes especially with 300 to 400 jobs/day what is your daily maintence like per machine? I ask bcuz we run a large amount of 12 x 18 stock and it seems to give us a lot of maintence issues....perhaps more than what anyone would consider "normal".

How do your fuser rolls hold up on the 12 x 18 stock? Do they seem to wear down fairly quickly based on your volume?

I'm debating switching out fuser rolls when we print to other stocks, 11 x 17, 8.5 x 11, etc...

Paul,

I started a new topic "Daily Maintenance and Fuser Roller Life" for going into your last statement in a little more detail.