Miller Blueprint Co.
Miller Blueprint Co nds
diagram for success with the
HP Designjet T7100
AT A GLANCE
Industry: Repro Houses
& Copy Shops
Business name: Miller Blueprint Co.
Headquarters: Austin, TX, U.S.
Website: www.millerblueprint.com
The employees of Miller Blueprint Co. have an
appreciation for tradition. After all, the rm opened
its doors nearly a century ago, making it the oldest
reprographics company in Austin, Texas. However, a
key to survival for the third-generation family business,
owned today by Luci Miller, has been its ability to
evolve and adapt.
“We denitely consider ourselves a technology-driven
company,” general manager Steve Coyle says. “It’s not
just about today. We’re always looking forward to what
our customers are going to need in the future.”
Miller Blueprint’s customer base consists of architects,
engineers, and contractors, as well as graphic
designers, artists, and small businesses. Over the years,
the company has witnessed seismic shifts in technology
within the reprographics industry. Embracing that new
technology has been pivotal to the company’s longevity
and its ability to address a diverse array of customer needs.
“Many in our industry didn’t want to believe that
there was this big transition to digital printing, to
decentralizing information and printing it on demand,”
Coyle says. “Those rms are now either trying to catch
up or they’ve already left the market.”
Emblematic of its drive to stay ahead of the competition,
Miller Blueprint partnered with HP to test the HP
Designjet T7100 Printer. Specically, the company was
looking for a cost-effective printing solution with great
speed, reliability, and colour quality.
“The HP Designjet T7100 is ideal as that type of
printer,” Coyle says. “You’re talking about quality, high-
speed printing, outstanding two- and three-dimensional
images, and colour that’s phenomenal for things like
CAD, line, and topography drawings.”
As the industry edges more and more toward colour
printing, the HP Designjet T7100’s ability to print both
colour and monochrome on one machine can also boost
efciency compared with using multiple devices.
“The HP T7100 can do what two systems can—without
taking up the footprint of two machines,” Coyle says.
“We feel it would be best used in the marketplace by
customers looking to nd all the capabilities they need in
one device.”
Given the machine’s versatile capabilities, reliability, and
low total cost of ownership, Coyle says the printer ranks
amongst the best in its class.
“Apples to apples, the HP Designjet T7100 is going to
compete equally or be superior to the other competitors
out there,” Coyle says. “You look at the speed, the
[print] quality, the reliability, and the price. Then you say,
‘Geez, I can get all of that and save money at the same
time?’ It is a strong, competitive device in the industry,
no doubt about it.”
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