Case Studies

Eggerdruck is a traditional offset printing company of medium size located in Tyrol and managed by the joint owners, brothers Thomas and Elmar Egger. Their services include layout and pre-press work, offset, book and digital printing, and hot foil stamping. Additionally, Eggerdruck specialises in the production of paper targets. The Tyrolean company is one of only four manufacturers certified world-wide as official suppliers by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Wanting to increase their digital printing services and promote them as the flexible alternative to offset printing, the Eggerdruck owners became aware of Konica Minolta as a competent supplier of digital production machines. The brothers accepted an invitation to an open house event introducing the bizhub PRO C6500e and, seeing Konica Minolta's colour digital press perform, the brothers were impressed. In-depth testing of various media types and paper qualities was arranged next—and it did not need any more to convince Thomas and Elmar Egger that they had found the perfect digital colour production machine. Soon after, Eggerdruck has quadrupled its digital production volume, reaching up to 50,000 digital prints per month on the bizhub PRO C6500e; and the volume continues to go up!

"So far the bizhub PRO C6500e has earned us good money—something we can't say of our previous machines." Thomas Egger sums up Eggerdruck's positive experience with the new Konica Minolta colour digital press and explains, "The amazing price performance ratio of the bizhub PRO C6500e made this an easy decision. The investment cost, click prices and running costs are all very advantageous, much lower than with our previous installation. From the first day of running the Konica Minolta system, we have had an increased turnover with digital print products and produced four times our previous monthly volume. Our customers are impressed with the outstanding colour quality and can't tell the difference to offset prints—except that they appreciate the extremely short delivery times and the attractive prices we can now offer them even for very small print runs. Choosing Konica Minolta has certainly helped us keep our customers happy— and that makes us happy, too!"