LPi’s Las Vegas Press Receives Major Upgrade

LPi has upgraded our Las Vegas HP printing press from a T230 to T240. What does that mean for LPI? The T230 press was almost at the end of its life. Some parts were going to be obsolete in 2025, and so to stay current, we needed to print faster.

With the new T240 press, we now have the most current operating system available. We can run up to 500 feet per minute (previously 400 feet), which means that our ability to print 25% faster will help ensure we meet tight deadlines for our customers.

It took about two months of planning to make this upgrade happen. HP has a project manager, and Louie Elahi played that role internally — lots of work was done before they arrived. We discovered that we needed to have additional power for the new dryers on the press to dry the paper at the faster speeds, so we upgraded our venting system to account for the extra exhaust.

We also developed an internal plan to move the jobs from Las Vegas to Dallas, which handled much of Las Vegas's workload during the upgrade. Additionally, we redistributed some tasks to Milwaukee. Thanks to our IT team’s expertise, we successfully automated the transfer of jobs between Las Vegas and Dallas, eliminating the need for manual intervention. Great job, IT team!

Prepress and the press teams monitored the work every day to make sure everything was getting printed, and we didn’t miss any jobs or deadlines.

With all that extra work going to Dallas, we needed an additional night shift for both weeks. We had four volunteers from Las Vegas go to Dallas for the two weeks while the Las Vegas press was down. We would like to give a huge thanks to Katie, Zach, Anthony, and Celia for stepping up to help us. Also, a big thanks to Doug and his team in Dallas for welcoming and helping them get acclimated to the Dallas plant. Everyone did an incredible job!