January 8, 2025 (press release) –
January 8, 2025
SCREEN Americas announces the installation of the Truepress JET 520NX to Weekley’s Mailing Service of Berea, Ohio. The press is the first SCREEN press for the company, which previously operated a mix of cutsheet and roll-fed digital devices. The new press is expected to assume most of the company’s print production moving forward.
For the better part of the last 76 years, Weekley’s Mailing Service provided mailing insertion services to northeastern Ohio, teaming up with local printers to ensure accuracy when delivering utility invoices, medical invoices, and other confidential correspondence. Now a HIPPA-compliant company that includes print production, Weekley’s Mailing Service needed a press that could fulfill its promise of error-free mailing. The complex variable capabilities demonstrated by the Truepress JET 520NX have set a new standard for the Ohio-based company.
The zero-tolerance policy toward mistakes in mailing dates back to the company’s beginnings in 1948 when the founder of Weekley’s Mailing Service—the grandmother of the current owner, Christian Weekley—approached her doctor with a proposition to type and mail the patients’ invoices. It wasn’t long before other local doctors received word that a reliable outfit was available to handle confidential correspondence and turned to Weekley’s Mailing Service for their mailing and insertion needs.
That personal touch and commitment to service continues to this day as Weekley’s Mailing Service now prints and inserts many data-sensitive letters for various clients—both direct and as a provider to other printers. With an in-line sheeting solution to facilitate automation, the company can now transition to more cost-efficient 18-inch rolls of 60 or 70 lb. stock and increase production from 246 feet per minute, 1-up printing on its current roll-fed device to 492 feet per minute, 2-up printing on the inkjet press from SCREEN.
Productivity on the Truepress JET 520NX has also relieved Weekley’s Mailing Service of its labor problems. “I can’t find anybody who wants to work,” said General Manager Kim Kunimoto. “When you don’t have the labor, you have to supplement it with technology. SCREEN has allowed me to do that. I don’t have enough people to devote to each machine. The Truepress JET 520NX is self-operating enough that I don’t have to worry about labor anymore.”
A long-term planner, Kunimoto has his eye on investing in more insertion equipment to complement the new high-speed digital inkjet press. Whereas the previous challenge was printing fast enough to keep insertion equipment busy, the opposite is now true as the SCREEN press easily outpaces finishing capacity. “The balancing act between printing and inserting is the ticket for the future at Weekley’s Mailing Service,” said Kunimoto.
Weekley’s Mailing Service currently employs 27 people in its 62,000-square-foot facility. The Truepress JET 520NX was installed in September 2024.
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