Production Capable Digital Color Press
Non-mandatory pre-bid meeting 05/12/2010.
The City seeks proposals from qualified firms to provide a production ready digital press machine to the
City on a cost per copy basis for a possible five (5) year term. The City is projecting this machine will
need to be in place as soon as possible after an award has been made.
City personnel will use this machine for printing, copying, scanning documents to an email account, or
digital file, to a server based repository or directly to the desktop of connected computers. The City
requires technical information on the connected functionality of the machine you are proposing. In
addition, the following specifications are required on a network connected machines. Proposals for
machines not meeting these specifications may be rejected.
The City primarily uses Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows server 2000, Windows
Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, Office 2003 and Office 2007 and foresees an upgrade to
Windows 7. Each machine must be capable of utilizing PCL 5, PCL 5e, PCL 6 and Postscript printer
drivers for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server
2008, Office 2003 and Office 2007. Printer device drivers are also required for UNIX AIX version 4.3
and IBM RS6000 servers running AIX. Drivers for other operating systems may also be required, such
as Mac/Apple, depending upon the placement of the equipment. It is preferred that the machine has
Microsoft Certified and Signed printer drivers available for all current supported Microsoft operating
systems. Vendors are required to include copies of Microsoft Certifications and/or designated if your
drivers are not Microsoft Certified.
Shall be capable of using the TCP/IP protocol.
Shall have the capability to scan and queue copy jobs while print jobs are running.
Vendor shall support all equipment and Software on the machine. (i.e. they cannot state it is a
Fiery issue and require the City to contact Fiery). The vendor shall support all
software/hardware installed equipment.
