Challenge

As North America’s leading exhibit system builder, this company provides tradeshow and event exhibits ranging from tabletop displays to large-scale island exhibits. They came to Coridian looking to streamline their printing processes. Their biggest challenge was that they had a centralized printing room, which employees had to walk to and from many times throughout the day, wasting valuable productivity.

Solution

Coridian helped convert the company’s main facility form a centralized printing room to distributed printing both in their production areas and their main office. They went from using 5 large Zebra XI Series printers to using more than 50 mid-sized Zebra ZM400 printers. Coridian also helped them create a custom, color coded label with a removable adhesive. Having the labels remove easily was important because after a display completed final assembly, they didn’t want label residue left behind on the finished display.

Results

It was estimated that employees were walking to the central printing area between 30 and 100 times per day, losing 15 minutes per trip in work time. Distributed printing will save the company more than $100,000 in labor costs alone. The return on investment (ROI) on the cost of printers was estimated at just one year from time of purchase.

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