Stanford Marsh installed five HP PageWide XL 8000 printers at the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office’s (UKHO) headquarters in Taunton, Somerset, making it Europe’s largest HP PageWide installation to date.
Paul Kelly, production manager at UKHO, said: “We made the decision to go with Stanford Marsh as they could supply the printers at a cost-effective price, and were able to meet the Service Level Agreement (SLA) criteria that we outlined.
“The SLAs we put in place are robust and equate to 92% productivity between 6am and 9pm, five days a week. We require on-site support within four hours of an incident being logged, the problem has to be resolved within six hours, and if it isn’t, a new HP PageWide printer needs to be installed into the workflow and operating successfully within 12 hours.”
The end-to-end solution went live in August 2015. Since that time, UKHO has transformed the printing of its 3500 unique charts to a fully digital process and is reaping the benefits of faster production speeds, improved efficiency, reduced wastage, lower stockholding requirements, better environmental credentials, and much more.
Additionally, moving to an inline solution – rather than a stock-based printing model – has enabled UKHO to make production time savings.