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There are several rather distinct jobs that might be termed transactional printing:
Point of sale till-rolls is one end of the spectrum - immediate print at the time a transaction occurs.
Ticketing, passes, credit and identity cards are related. A football match or concert may involve a hundred thousand tickets, all to be traceable, unique and hologrammed.
B2B transactions - Business to business purchase and sales orders, delivery notes, invoices and suchlike. Each page relates to a transaction. Page numbers aren't usually very high volume - although a components warehouse may handle thousands of transactions per day. As long as the forms are legible nobody really cares what they look like.
B2C transactions - bank, utility and government statement runs directed at "consumers". Usually these transactions are a combination of form and personalised data. Each page relates to a transaction but in this case because there can be a lot of customers there may be tens of thousands of transactions - millions in the case of banks and utilities. The "look" of the bill may be an impotant part of the business image.
There tend to be many more people than businesses - about 60 million people in the UK and under a million businesses - of which only a small proportion are any great size. Transactional printing tends to be focussed on the high volume B2C end of the spectrum.
With a lot of computer print the main emphasis is on the look of the page, with speed a desireable secondary characteristic. The look of the page is top priority with the eye catching appearance of magazine pages being a priority. Cost of printing a report is often only considered third and largely by comparison with other ways of doing something - offset litho printing or photographic developing for instance.
Transactional printing often reverses this - time is money so top priority is often to print quickly. Next issue is cost per page - and last of all comes what transactional print looks like.
However there is an interesting problem and opportunity.
People are deluged with sales messages: TV, magazine pages, posters, flyers and direct mail - as for email and fax the main use seems to be spam. A problem with all this is that people have simply become adept at shutting the messages out. Transaction messages are some of the few things people do pay attention to - so nice clear presentation of statements and bills with a bit of advertising can work very well.
Delivery Notes and Invoices
Point of sale printers are variants on the cash register. One problem with the cash register roll is that it doesn't have enough room for the detailed descriptions that hire -shops, plumbers and electrical merchants and suchlike operations might want.
UP3I Firewire interconnect for high speed printers and support systems
Pinless printers - paper without feed holes is less expensive and eliminates the trimming and disposal of feed holes
Pinless technology also handles paper above and below the conventional weight limits of 70 to 160 g/m2
IBM 4100 laser printer - 1,440 pages per minute (1 up)
Océ VarioStream 9000 High performance continuous-feed printing system with integrated Oce CustomTone colour support.
Speeds up to 1700 / 1562 ppm (A5 6" x 9" 3-up)
Océ VarioStream 7000 series web fed digital production printing
Speeds up to 180 to 1,200ppm (A4 portrait 2-up)
Graphic arts and transactional applications
Simplex, duplex, triplex,
Optional Océ CustomTone colour or MICR
Resolution of 240, 300 or 600 dpi with automatic resolution switching
Océ DBMO-4000 Duplet Bookletmaker -
Ideal for short -on-demand runs of booklets
Rotates small formats such as A4 to short edge first
Sheets pre-collated in the buffer
Vacuum-feed interposer trays
Océ Digi-Stitich DS 1220. Made by IBIS Integrated Bindery Systems Ltd
World's fastest online saddle stitcher for producing booklets - up to 6,000 per hour
Océ VP 5000 Stacker High Capacity Stacker for Océ Varioprint 5000
Add on stacking module for cutsheet printing sytstems.
single or tandem high capacity stacker handles up to 10,000 pages of output.
Océ VP 5000 Stitcher (for 5115/5140/5160)
Side-stitching: single for corner stitching, double - double position adjustable from centre
Stacks without stitching
Paper formats 203 x 254 to 229 x 356 mm
Grammage 60-190 g/m2 (16 to 51 lbs)
Envelope Stuffers
Postal Franking machines