The Data Group, headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, has acquired multiple new Xerox digital presses in a $6.7 million (CAN) deal believed to be one of the single largest high-production digital upgrades by a Canadian graphic communications company in 2015. The company now uses Xerox presses for all its digital cut-sheet printing at all nine of its production facilities in Canada and Chicago, supported by a standardized workflow built around Xerox FreeFlow Core workflow automation software. “The biggest thing we’re getting from this deal is improved productivity, primarily from having a single, consistent workflow,” said Alan Roberts, Senior Vice President of Operations at the Data Group. “We’re also getting more capacity, and we’re getting an expanded colour gamut, to closely match brand colours that we couldn’t match before.”
The source of the expanded colour gamut is the optional fifth toner station on the Xerox iGen 5 Presses. The station enables either orange, green or blue to complement CMYK, expanding its achievable colour gamut to more accurately match up to 90% of the Pantone Plus Coated library. In addition to the iGens, Data Group acquired the following additional models: Xerox Versant 80 Press, Xerox Color C75 Press, Xerox DocuPrint180MX Enterprise Printing System, Xerox D125 Copier/Printer, Xerox D136 Printer, inline/near-line C. P. Bourg booklet making solution, and several Xerox workflow products, including Xerox FreeFlow Core and the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server.
The Data Group is a top-five Canadian printer and communications management company that provides marketing and document management solutions for electronic and print media. The firm has about 1,400 employees and generates about $313 million (CAN) in annual revenues.
