Mercury Print Productions

A lot of hope is riding on the Prosper 5000 XL sitting in Mercury Print Production’s Lee Road plant. The Rochester (NY) commercial printer is banking on the massive investment into the digital color inkjet printing press to help it be more cost competitive in the educational book industry.

And Eastman Kodak Co., the maker of the Prosper, is counting on the presses to help lift it out of the chasm in which it has languished in recent years.

The price tag—upwards of $5 million, including all the finishing equipment to go with the Prosper—made it the biggest investment in Mercury’s history

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ROCHESTER, NY—Mercury Print Productions, which specializes in digital book printing for publishers in the education market, has begun installation of a Kodak Prosper 5000XL inkjet press. The press will boost its ability to produce short-run and on-demand books in color, meeting publishers’ needs in the education/textbook market.

ALBANY, NY—Mercury Print Productions (MPP) will invest in a new, high-speed book printing and binding machine that will result in the retention of 81 at-risk jobs and create 40 new jobs over a three year period, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office announced. The $3.875 million investment by the high-end printer and binder of school textbooks will secure jobs in New York state instead of China, where this line of work is almost exclusively done.

Mercury Print Productions, Rochester, NY, will invest in a new, high-speed book printing and binding machine that will result in the retention of 81 at-risk jobs and create 40 new jobs. Empire State Development is assisting with a $250,000 capital grant.

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Mercury Print Productions has purchased and installed a new Hewlett-Packard Scitex FB6100 large-format ink-jet printer.

HP Indigo customers collectively achieved double-digit annual page growth, as well as a 47 percent increase in photo specialty page output during the 2009 peak season, compared to the same three-month period in 2008

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