[Success Story] Nottingham College reclaims control of its print jobs with AccurioPro Flux

Nottingham College is one of the largest further education colleges in the UK. After outsourcing its print, the college found itself facing rising costs, inconsistent turnaround and a sprawling estate of more than 140 multifunctional devices. It decided to reclaim control by reinstating an in-house print room — and needed a workflow that could hold it all together.

The challenge

• Outsourced print driving up costs and slowing turnaround
• Over 140 aging, mismatched printers
• Printing often happened through the wrong devices
• External print jobs scattered across countless purchase orders

The solution

• Konica Minolta AccurioPress C4080 and AccurioPress C7090 color presses
• Konica Minolta AccurioPress 6120 monochrome press
• SD-513 booklet makers on each engine
• An Epson large-format printer
• AccurioPro Flux, our print workflow management software

The piece that made insourcing work was AccurioPro Flux. Rather than juggling each press separately, the college runs one workflow that receives every job centrally and routes it automatically to the right engine: the AccurioPress C4080 or C7090 for color, the AccurioPress 6120 for mono, and on to the SD-513 booklet makers or the Epson large-format printer for finishing and wide work.

This centralised control point transformed a fragmented and costly printing environment into an efficient and transparent production process. AccurioPro Flux automates job processing and ensures that each job is produced using the most suitable system. Consequently, external print orders have almost been eliminated entirely, while consistently high quality and reliable turnaround times are guaranteed.

Combined with an efficiently managed, streamlined fleet of devices, Nottingham College has regained control of its printing processes, laying the foundation for sustainable, future-proof print production.

The benefits for the customer

• Full control over printing costs, quality and production processes
• A unified, automated workflow for colour, black-and-white and large-format printing
• Centralised job intake with automatic routing to the appropriate printing system
• Shorter and more reliable turnaround times in a dynamic academic environment
• Significant reduction in external orders and material waste
• A workflow that supports the college’s digitisation and sustainability goals

With AccurioPro Flux as the control layer across a mixed Konica Minolta fleet, Nottingham College has reclaimed its print, replacing the cost and unpredictability of outsourcing with one in-house workflow it runs on its own terms.