Choosing a digital colour press is an important investment and decision for your organisation.
There are many factors to consider, including application needs, print quality, substrate requirements, average and peak print volumes, and budget.
To help you make an informed decision, we asked print providers to share their opinions, experiences and reviews on the Xerox® Versant® family of presses. Here’s what they had to say.
“We’ve had our Versant 3100 for almost one year now and myself and the production staff love it! It is a work horse, but yet produces excellent colours and sharpness. It’s a strong and reliable machine, with only minimal service intervention required so far. In summary it is fast, reliable and accurate – it’s a 10/10!”
Simon Davidson
Managing Director
Bang On Print & Design Ltd (Newcastle, UK)
The high quality of our Versant products means that our customers think our digital print is actually offset. Ever since we've had Versant, we've be able to accept all the jobs.
Nestor Juarez, CEO
Juarez Impresores (Elche, Alicante, Spain)
Versant's reliability was a big game-changer for us. The high degree of automation offered by Versant allows us to meet all of our customers' requirements.
Matías González, CEO
Imnova Gráfica (Molina de la Suegra, Murcia, Spain)
“The Xerox Versant 3100 has helped us achieve our goals in terms of cost control and technical specifications, and has enabled us to improve our productivity and the way we manage complex projects.”
Bogdan Ciurdia
General Manager
Regata Print (Bucharest, Romania)
“The Versant is our Workhorse! We love this machine — it just keeps printing and printing at the highest quality. We are reliant on our Versant to produce all of the Personalized Christmas cards for the local schools and we know it won’t let us down,”
Danny Sedgebeer
Owner
Prontaprint Bishop’s Stortford (Stansted, UK)
“Our Versant is a workhorse. The standout features we see on a daily basis are consistency and vibrancy of colours. We have no hesitation reproducing and presenting colour prints to our customers. We’re very confident in this press.”
James Beckwith
Owner
Minuteman Press Swindon (Swindon, UK)
“The Xerox Versant is the first press where I have no problem running business cards 24 or 18 up. The slew and kick compensation is off the wall. The truth is, this press is a money maker and to boot my staff tells me it is a pleasure to operate. I made a good decision going digital years ago but I made a better decision going and staying with Xerox.”
Dennis Beck
General Manager
Minuteman Press (North Palm Beach, Florida)
“Although our lithographic presses continue to be busy, we’ve seen our digital department grow with clients expecting faster turnaround times. As a result, last month we installed our third Versant, the new Versant 180 which is currently running well alongside our other machines.”
Jamie Gilbert
Production Director
“My entire business is hinged on digital technology, so I did the research to pick the best tools for the job and I'm really excited to be an early adopter of the Versant 180. Xerox is a name you can trust. They are known for excellent support, and the new Versant models are more advanced and automated, so you can do a lot more with them."
Jim Francis
Owner
Minuteman Press (Fort Worth, Texas)
“We were feeling the need to improve our printing capabilities and we came across the Versant 3100. This press has it all - maximising the automation when printing brochures, improving print quality to a new level and setting colour easily between jobs, with virtually no human hand. Simply put, printing has never been as easy and fun as it is today with our Versant.”
Daniel Pelikán
Owner
“It’s the Swiss army knife of cut-sheet presses. Being able to offer full-bleeds and square folds inline is a great advantage. Jobs that had previously touched multiple departments can now be done in one pass.”
Tim Sellers
General Manager
Printegra (Fairport, New York)
“After recently upgrading our equipment to the Xerox Versant 180, we saw huge advancements in the work we do, such as printing envelopes. With an all-around faster press paired with enhanced colour quality, productivity and automation, we are very happy with our Versant and highly recommend it.”
Sannick Kim
Owner
The UPS Store (London, Ontario, Canada)
“The speed and productivity of our Versant 3100 enables us to increase our monthly print volumes and to face the production peaks typical for our activity. Also, we are able to meet our needs for short job runs, meet the deadline for proofing/production jobs and customise some parts of our long offset runs so the digital prints integrate the offset jobs.”
Jacopo Bernardi
Technical Department
Centrooffset (Mestrino, Italy)
“Versant is the perfect balance between productivity and performance — the ideal solution for our customer base. This press was the only solution we tested that was able to handle some of our unique jobs. Versant also supports our activity enabling some offset volume to digital — leading us to tripling our digital print volumes the last 6 months."
Paola Testori
Owner
Tipografia Testori Luigi (Bolzano Novarese, Italy)
“We offer a range of printing services including fast print and printing on non-standard materials — including dense and textured paper, tracing paper and envelopes. When our old press wasn’t able to cope with increased volumes we needed a powerful press to improve the speed of orders, spot colour accuracy and reduce the cost of printing. So we chose the new Xerox Versant 180 — the first to be installed in Russia — to strengthen our position in the market and develop our business."
Oleg Nekrasov
Director
Craft Printing House (Rostov-na-Donu, Russia)
“Our company was looking for a way to stand-out in the digital printing market through excellent quality, fast execution and automation. Today, we make these advantages every day thanks to the Xerox Versant because we can now automatically correct the fit and color reproduction with the guaranteed color correction tools.
Andrzej & Piotr Watychowicz
Owners
Drukarnia PAW s.c. (Szczecin-Pilchowo, Poland)
“I believe the Xerox Versant 180 Press has no competitors in its class by the ratio of price, quality and technical capabilities. Our competitors cannot offer such high quality. The installation of this press helped us strengthen our presence in the online printing segment and create an excellent basis for further business development.”
Emil Zakaryan
General Manager
Pechatnoe Delo (Moscow, Russia)
We like our Versant Presses because it’s so easy to switch between various sheet sizes and substrates. Also, with the Plockmatic finisher we can produce full-bleed brochures with no effort. They are very easy to operate but very versatile.
Peter Mettler
Digital Print Operator
Mattenbach AG (Winterthur, Switzerland)
“We have recently upgraded our Versant 80 to a Versant 3100, making it our fourth Xerox press. We are overjoyed with our new Versant and the many great functions that come with it. We have no doubt in our minds that the quality of images made by this press can be nearly as good as those created on offset devices. All in all, we are completely satisfied with the Xerox Versant 3100 and I recommend it to anyone who needs an easy-to-use press to produce a wide range of jobs in an excellent quality.”
Imre Nagy
Owner
IMI Print Nyomdaipari Kft. (Nyíregyháza, Hungary)
“I work in the graduation market and started using Xerox equipment three years ago with the Xerox C75, which provided the quality I needed to serve my clients well. Our volumes grew and so I acquired the Xerox Versant 180 to be able to produce materials with an extraordinary quality and a better performance in production. In addition, the 33x66 format will help me develop new products."
Fábio Pais de Andrade
Owner
Innova Brasil (São Paulo, Brazil)
"With our Xerox Versant 3100 Press, we have significantly reduced delivery time and made our product offer for end customers much more attractive financially. We can easily perform according to our own high standards and meet all customer requirements at the same time."
Kirill Korobov
General Director
Interunity (Moscow, Russia)
“Printing on vintage presses is my passion, but for my craft mini printing house to be successful I needed a digital press capable of producing high-quality prints with minimal effort. The Xerox Versant 180 was the right choice for sure - it prints with offset-comparable quality and customers are always happy with the colours on all applications”.
Alexey Scherbinin
General Director
PRO.Sche (Moscow, Russia)
“Our Xerox Versant Press allows us to provide on-demand printing with much higher profit margins compared to offset printing.”
Adriana Sánchez
Digital Printing Manager
Offset Robosan (Mexico)
"Speed, combined with fidelity in color and registration, were the top priorities for our in-house productions. The Xerox Versant 180 digital press has covered all three of these factors, and given us the freedom to respond to small- and medium-sized daily productions in a great way, from day one.”
Hrissa Krokida
Partner
Garamond Design (Athens, Greece)
"I'm delighted with the printing quality and the speed of Xerox Versant 180. Mostly, however, I am impressed by its versatility, which allows us to use many different materials, and the impressive registration. These features make Versant a valuable and productive tool for my business".
Aristidis Papadakis
Owner
Metrographics (Crete, Greece)
Shorter runs. Greater job diversity. Today, automation is more than a nicety – it’s a necessity. But what if your digital press came standard with advanced features to automate complex, everyday production processes?