Johannesburg, 02 Feb 2007
One of SA's foremost engineering firms, Bateman Minerals & Metals, relies on Oc'e equipment to ensure its project drawings are clear, crisp and accurate - and that it recoups its printing costs on time and in full.
A division of Bateman Project Holdings, Bateman Minerals & Metals conducts its large project business through five business units: Base Metals, Diamonds, Gold, Industrial Minerals and Platinum-Group Metals. These units concentrate on specific industry sectors and target the larger engineering, procurement, construction, management and lump-sum turnkey projects on behalf of the group.
The Boksburg-based company has acquired an Oc'e TDS800 six-roll printer and scanner with a scan speed of 10m per minute. The TDS800 is producing project drawings for all of the above-mentioned business units and across all of the industry sectors, and is generating extremely high volumes, according to Shannon van den Bergh, computer-aided engineering manager at Bateman Minerals & Metals.
In addition, the use of Oc'e accounting software means each print job can be costed out and billed to the relevant client.
Oc'e SA's Donna Mynhardt, says: "Our accounting software is easy to use and can accurately calculate the cost of a single drawing or an entire print job. This allows Bateman to invoice the client timeously at the end of each project."
The high-volume TDS800 - one of the world's most productive wide format printing systems - prints on average 10 000m of project drawings per month for Bateman. The machine features the Oc'e Power Logic Controller, which supports true concurrency so users can continue feeding in print, copy and scan jobs while the system is operating.
This ensures productivity is maintained and users can input their print jobs throughout the working day.
The delivery and installation of a printing system such as the TDS800 is no easy feat and is better left to the professionals. In this instance, KCB Promove delivered the one-ton machine and had to install it on the first floor, which entailed transporting it across a glass floor and up several flights of stairs.
KCB Promove's Keith Chester-Browne, says: "Getting the printer to the required site was no easy matter. We had to dismantle it, build a ramp over the glass floor, build a ramp up the stairs, and then dismantle that ramp and rebuild it down another flight of stairs, so that we could move the printer into an adjoining building. It took us about eight hours in all!"
The last word comes from Van den Bergh, who says: "This was a very slick and professional installation by Oc'e and KCB. As a global player in the engineering industry, Bateman has had dealings with a multitude of wide format printing systems. We would definitely recommend Oc'e and KCB to any organisation doing large volumes of printing, copying or scanning."
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