Digital Printing & Finishing Equipment

Production Color Printers

Produce full-color, variable, and short-run output with integrated inkjet printing systems built around envelopes, mailpieces, sheets, packaging materials, and other specialty applications.

These systems combine printing with dedicated feeding, transport, registration, and output capabilities for standalone production environments.

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The systems below represent production color printing equipment available through ATP Equipment Solutions. Additional configurations, feeding options, and output accessories may be available depending on the application.

Kirk-Rudy

Kirk-Rudy production printing equipment is built around heavy-duty transports designed for continuous production work.

Formax

The Formax ColorMax range covers compact, envelope-focused, and thicker-media color printing configurations.

What Determines the Right Production Color Printer?

Evaluating these four areas usually narrows the field faster than comparing published speeds.

Media Size and Thickness

Define the smallest and largest pieces the system must run, along with material thickness, rigidity, coating, and whether the product is flat, padded, or partially assembled.

Print Width and Image Area

Identify how much of the piece must be printed. Full-bleed graphics, edge-to-edge coverage, and multi-panel designs place different demands on a system than a simple address block or single logo.

Production Volume and Run Length

Review average run length, job frequency, number of versions, monthly volume, and expected growth. Frequent short runs and long continuous runs favor different configurations.

Variable Data, Color, and Output Requirements

Clarify the variable content required, color expectations, data preparation workflow, and how printed pieces should be stacked, conveyed, or handed off to the next production step.

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Production & Modular Inkjet Systems

Add printing capability to a compatible feeder, transport, mail base, or production line instead of adding a complete standalone press.

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Corrugated, Envelope & Specialty Printing

Print directly onto corrugated sheets, boxes, mailers, bags, cartons, and other thicker or semi-flexible materials.

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Digital Label Printers

Produce short-run, variable, durable, and full-color labels when the printed output is a label rather than a finished piece.

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Finishing & Converting Equipment

Cut, fold, slit, crease, perforate, laminate, or die-cut printed output after the printing process is complete.

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Explore how artwork, variable data, printing technology, media handling, finishing, inspection, and downstream workflow requirements come together around the completed printed application.

Integrated Systems

Connect printing equipment with feeders, transports, finishing, inspection, mail systems, packaging equipment, and production controls.

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Service & Support

Request installation, training, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair support for eligible printing and finishing equipment.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a production color inkjet printer?

A production color inkjet printer is a digital printing system that combines full-color output with integrated media feeding, transport, registration, and controls. It is built to run repeatable production work rather than occasional office printing, and the media it can handle is defined by the transport and print engine it uses.

Can production color printers print variable data?

The systems featured here support variable content such as names, addresses, numbering, barcodes, and versioned graphics, depending on the configuration and software used. The extent of the variable content, the image area, and the data workflow all influence which system is appropriate.

What materials can these systems print on?

Supported materials vary by machine and may include envelopes, cut sheets, flats, cartons, corrugated stock, padded envelopes, and other compatible media. Media thickness, surface, coating, and dimensions should be reviewed against a specific model before selection.

What information does ATP need to recommend a system?

Helpful details include printed samples, the media type and dimensions, the required print area, average run length, monthly volume, variable-data requirements, color expectations, existing equipment, and what happens to the printed product downstream.

Find the Right Production Color Printer

Share the details of the printed application and ATP can help match it with an appropriate production color printing configuration.

  • What you need to print
  • The material
  • Product or media dimensions
  • Production volume
  • Variable-data requirements
  • Existing equipment
  • Required downstream process