Probably the most interesting aspect of our ministry is the press itself. We have an HP Indigo Offset Digital printing press. It offers great quality at affordable costs for short runs. We are able to print the same offset quality without costly film or plate changes. No set up time between print jobs.
Digital means that if you need 1500 tracts, but you would like half of them to say one thing and 300 to say something else and the rest to say something else still. (Well, we might get a bit confused), but the costs will be no different even though the art has to change multiple times. We can even print books or magazines one at a time with no cost difference. Most printing costs change depending on the quantity and number of set ups. Not so with Digital.
Some Missionaries pay $300 for 10,000 prayer cards. By the time they use 1,000 of them they have changed a phone number, or one of their children has grown up and the photo needs to be updated. This means many of these prayer cards get thrown away. We can print 500 at a time for a cost of about $25. When they are gone we can print 500 more and make whatever changes are necessary.