Credit crunch drives transactional firm to buy Xerox DocuTech pair

Document Outsourcing has found a positive spin to the global recent credit crunch as growing demand for highlight colour transactional mail work drove it to invest in two Xerox DocuTech 180 presses.

The Bellshill, North Lanarkshire-based business, which specialises in transactional statements such as debt recovery letters, prints and mails more than 250,000 critical documents each day.

The £5m-turnover firm, which now runs four DocuTech 180s, has doubled capacity, allowing it to pursue more clients

Gerry Crawley, sales director at the 50-staff firm, told printweek.com that the recent credit crisis had boosted its output with an increased volume of transactional highlight print. "We're in a bad news business," he added.

He said that highlight colour work represented 65% of its workload, so the new kit needed to be "speedy and reliable enough to allow Document Outsourcing to produce cost-effective documents".

Crawley said: "With an increased capacity, we can now go after more clients and take on a higher volume of work".

The Xerox DocuTech 180 is designed for both print-on-demand and transactional print.

It offers 600x600dpi resolution in colour mode and 600x2,400dpi in monochrome up to 180ppm.