Education In-plant in U.S.

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Education In-plant in U.S.

Centralized Printing for Schools, ComColor Supporting Everyday Education

ComColor is being used to print a wide range of educational materials in a school district in Louisiana, the U.S. This has enabled not only rapid and waste-free output, but has also the color output of materials that were previously limited to monochrome—earning strong recognition. This report highlights their experience.

Mr. Simpson (right), Director of Printing Services at the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, stands with two staff members in front of the building that houses the department.

ComColor handles All Printing for a Louisiana School District

East Baton Rouge Parish, located in the central region of Louisiana in the southern United States, is the most populous parish in the state. Its school district includes approximately 80 schools—including elementary, middle, high, and vocational institutions—and serves around 40,000 students. “Although I don't meet the children directly, I’m glad to be part of their educational journey,” says Mr. Chad Simpson, Director of Printing Services at the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board. The district’s printing department handles an exceptionally wide range of materials on a daily basis—from full-color textbooks and preschool resources to booklets, handouts, grade reports, report cards, parent forms, and even graduation ceremony tickets, with three ComColor printers operating at full capacity to meet these diverse needs.
“Our goal is to produce the highest-quality printed materials possible at the lowest cost and give back to the children’s education,” explains Mr. Simpson. In the past, some color materials were outsourced, which strained the budget and caused frequent issues such as long delivery times, incorrect quantities, and waste created by curriculum changes.

Color Printing and Productivity Delivered by ComColor

While searching for a printer capable of producing fast, high-volume color output at a low cost, Mr. Simpson discovered ComColor, and since its implementation, all of these challenges have been resolved. “We can now print educational materials in color, something that was previously not financially feasible. Delivery times have been greatly reduced, and we can handle urgent reprints and revisions on the same day. It has been extremely helpful,” he says with a smile.
Currently, the department prints between 1 and 1.5 million pages per month using ComColor, producing more than 100,000 books annually. Mr. Simpson also hopes to bring all material production fully in-house and eventually propose to the school board an integrated printing system that could serve multiple school districts. Supporting the education of children who will shape America’s future, ComColor continues to play a vital role in daily school district operations, and its importance is only expected to grow.

Print quality also earns high marks: “The output is more than sufficient for classroom color printing,” he adds.
*Note: A printer from another manufacturer is used for cover printing.

When used with the print controller, settings can be preset, so that anyone—not just the main operator—can print materials with the same configuration every time.

ComColor is hard at work on the shop floor.
“Even though it delivers very high productivity, the device has a compact footprint, and because it simply plugs into a standard household outlet, it was much easier for us to decide where to place it and get everything set up,” Mr. Simpson said.

The in-plant print services department of the East Baton Rouge Parish School System in Louisiana operates with a clear mission: to deliver all printed materials for the district quickly, professionally, and at a reasonable cost.

Mr. Chad Simpson, interviewed for this report.

Boby Wynn, National Manager, In Plants, RISO,INC.

[ Voice of the RISO Representative ]
I am truly honored that RISO’s inkjet technology has contributed to the advancement of color printing in classrooms and the support of education. It is also a sincere pleasure to have helped enhance productivity and reduce costs in the district’s printing operations.

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