Real-World Feedback on the Versant Family of Presses: Flawless Registration, Color Consistency, Advanced Automation
Real-World Feedback on the Versant Family of Presses: Flawless Registration, Color Consistency, Advanced Automation
Choosing a digital color press is an important investment and decision for your organization.
There are many factors to consider, including application needs, print quality, substrate requirements, average and peak print volumes, and budget.
To help you make an informed decision, we asked print providers to share their opinions, experiences and reviews on the Xerox® Versant® family of presses. Here’s what they had to say.
First digital press with flawless registration
“The Xerox Versant is the first press where I have no problem running business cards 24 or 18 up. The slew and kick compensation is off the wall. The truth is, this press is a money maker and to boot my staff tells me it is a pleasure to operate. I made a good decision going digital years ago but I made a better decision going and staying with Xerox.”
Dennis Beck
General Manager
Minuteman Press (North Palm Beach, Florida)
Delighted with the print quality and reliability
“Although our lithographic presses continue to be busy, we’ve seen our digital department grow with clients expecting faster turnaround times. As a result, last month we installed our third Versant, the new Versant 180 which is currently running well alongside our other machines.”
Jamie Gilbert
Production Director
Digital technology at its finest
“My entire business is hinged on digital technology, so I did the research to pick the best tools for the job and I’m really excited to be an early adopter of the Versant 180. Xerox is a name you can trust. They are known for excellent support, and the new Versant models are more advanced and automated, so you can do a lot more with them.”
Jim Francis
Owner
Minuteman Press (Fort Worth, Texas)
This press has it all
“We were feeling the need to improve our printing capabilities and we came across the Versant 3100. This press has it all – maximising the automation when printing brochures, improving print quality to a new level and setting colour easily between jobs, with virtually no human hand. Simply put, printing has never been as easy and fun as it is today with our Versant.”
Daniel Pelikán
Owner
Consistent color from beginning to the end
“It’s the Swiss army knife of cut-sheet presses. Being able to offer full-bleeds and square folds inline is a great advantage. Jobs that had previously touched multiple departments can now be done in one pass.”
Tim Sellers
General Manager
Printegra (Fairport, New York)
Amazing speed and color quality
“After recently upgrading our equipment to the Xerox Versant 180, we saw huge advancements in the work we do, such as printing envelopes. With an all-around faster press paired with enhanced color quality, productivity and automation, we are very happy with our Versant and highly recommend it.”
Sannick Kim
Owner
The UPS Store (London, Ontario, Canada)
Speedy and productive
“The speed and productivity of our Versant 3100 enables us to increase our monthly print volumes and to face the production peaks typical for our activity. Also, we are able to meet our needs for short job runs, meet the deadline for proofing/production jobs and customize some parts of our long offset runs so the digital prints integrate the offset jobs.”
Jacopo Bernardi
Technical Department
Centrooffset (Mestrino, Italy)
Perfect balance between productivity and performance
“Versant is the perfect balance between productivity and performance – the ideal solution for our customer base. This press was the only solution we tested that was able to handle some of our unique jobs. Versant also supports our activity enabling some offset volume to digital – leading us to tripling our digital print volumes the last 6 months.”
Paola Testori
Owner
Tipografia Testori Luigi (Bolzano Novarese, Italy)
We needed a powerful press
“We offer a range of printing services including fast print and printing on non-standard materials – including dense and textured paper, tracing paper and envelopes. When our old press wasn’t able to cope with increased volumes we needed a powerful press to improve the speed of orders, spot color accuracy and reduce the cost of printing. So we chose the new Xerox Versant 180 – the first to be installed in Russia – to strengthen our position in the market and develop our business.”
Oleg Nekrasov
Director
Craft Printing House (Rostov-na-Donu, Russia)
Standing out in digital print
“Our company was looking for a way to stand-out in the digital printing market through excellent quality, fast execution and automation. Today, we make these advantages every day thanks to the Xerox Versant because we can now automatically correct the fit and color reproduction with the guaranteed color correction tools.
Andrzej & Piotr Watychowicz
Owners
Drukarnia PAW s.c. (Szczecin-Pilchowo, Poland)
Standing out on a daily basis
“Our Versant is a workhorse. The standout features we see on a daily basis are consistency and vibrancy of colours. We have no hesitation reproducing and presenting colour prints to our customers. We’re very confident in this press.”
James Beckwith
Owner
Minuteman Press Swindon (Swindon, United Kingdom)
This press has no competitors in its class
“I believe the Xerox Versant 180 Press has no competitors in its class by the ratio of price, quality and technical capabilities. Our competitors cannot offer such high quality. The installation of this press helped us strengthen our presence in the online printing segment and create an excellent basis for further business development.”
Emil Zakaryan
General Manager
Pechatnoe Delo (Moscow, Russia)
This press is our workhorse
“The Versant is our Workhorse! We love this machine – it just keeps printing and printing at the highest quality. We are reliant on our Versant to produce all of the Personalized Christmas cards for the local schools and we know it won’t let us down,”
Danny Sedgebeer
Owner
Prontaprint Bishop’s Stortford (Stansted, UK)
Easy to operate but very versatile
We like our Versant Presses because it’s so easy to switch between various sheet sizes and substrates. Also, with the Plockmatic finisher we can produce full-bleed brochures with no effort. They are very easy to operate but very versatile.
Peter Mettler
Digital Print Operator
Mattenbach AG (Winterthur, Switzerland)
Several good functions in one quick and reliable press
“We have recently upgraded our Versant 80 to a Versant 3100, making it our fourth Xerox press. We are overjoyed with our new Versant and the many great functions that come with it. We have no doubt in our minds that the quality of images made by this press can be nearly as good as those created on offset devices. All in all, we are completely satisfied with the Xerox Versant 3100 and I recommend it to anyone who needs an easy-to-use press to produce a wide range of jobs in an excellent quality.”
Imre Nagy
Owner
IMI Print Nyomdaipari Kft. (Nyíregyháza, Hungary)
Meet the Xerox Versant 180 Press
Meet the Xerox Versant 3100 Press
Two state-of-the-art presses. One choice: Which is best for you?
The Versant® 180 and Versant® 3100 Presses are the latest in the Xerox® Versant family of four-color, cut-sheet production presses.
BLI Reviews the Xerox Versant Family of Presses
Buyers Labaratory LLC (BLI) is the world’s leading independent provider of analytical information and services to the digital imaging and document management industry.
Automation 101
Shorter runs. Greater job diversity. Today, automation is more than a nicety – it’s a necessity. But what if your digital press came standard with advanced features to automate complex, everyday production processes?
Visit Xerox at the PIA Color 2018 Conference in San Diego January 13-16.
Color 2018 is the place to gather practical and in-depth information from the best minds in color.
