High velocity scan/print production – the Canon/reprocontrol.net story

The premier provider of integrated print and graphic solutions in Chicago, Best Imaging Solutions, recently invested in reprocontrol.net and witnessed an unprecedented growth in output and a rapid sophistication of color-management techniques.

The thirty-year-old company began as a specialist in the field of drafting and architectural printing, and expanded over time to become a thriving business of 55 employees in four various departments, with 500,000 square feet/197.000 metres of color output per month.

Best Imaging Solutions’ digital graphics and print specialist, Darrel Reese, was hunting for a high-speed, scanner-compatible alternative to his Onyx Postershop/HP system. What he particularly needed was a workflow system comprising a scan-to-print function, which would help the department produce its AEC jobs and architectural renderings with maximum efficiency without sacrificing its commitment to quality. He discovered the Vidar scanner/reprocontrol.net combination thanks to the Reprographic Services Association, the reference for all things copy in the USA, and organized a test session with SCP representatives.

Reprocontrol.net’s ingenious inbuilt calibration tool particularly impressed Darrel, and he immediately employed the system and connected reprocontrol.net to their Canon IPF 700 inkjet printer. They recently added a second printer to keep up with production demand.

“We opted for reprocontrol.net because it’s economical and dynamic”, Darrel says. “And, after having used it for some time, what we find particularly beneficial is the speed of operation – that we can put the Client on a number of workstations and thereby multiply production – and its user-friendliness – that the interface allows us to add jobs, to order them and collate them exactly as we want.”

Best Imaging Solutions is an innovative, creative company whose printing tasks range from small-format black and white jobs, to grand format full-color tasks such as building wraps and banners. Darrel’s department, responsible for digital color printing, relies on reprocontrol.net to achieve perfect color printing results. “reprocontrol.net allows us to make the quick color adjustments necessary for accurate scans and reproductions.

Reprocontrol.net has what it takes to become our company-wide software application. I am thrilled with the results,” says Darrel.