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THE CATALUNIA
SUCCESS STORY
In the Spanish educational system, passbooks are commonly used to keep track
of students’ academic data. Although this is a national practice, the method of
recording data in passbooks is decided by local governments.
The Junta de Castilla y León (Autonomous Community of Castile
and León) is the largest of the seventeen self-governed communities
of Spain, with a population of 2.5 million. The schools of Junta de
Castilla had been using printed labels to enter academic records
into its students’ passbooks, which involved printing individual
labels and gluing them into the books.
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SOLUTION
With a customisation of its PLQ-20,
Epson offered the schools of Junta
de Castilla the solution to its problem,
enabling them to print directly on the
surface of the students’ passbooks.
THE PERFECT PRINTER FOR STUDENTS’ PASSBOOKS
As these printed labels were easy to forge or tamper with, the autonomous communities
decided it would be preferable to print directly onto the pages of the passbooks. At the
same time, the communities wanted to introduce thicker passbooks with more pages,
sothat a single book would last through primary and secondary school.
Epson offered the perfect solution by customising its PLQ-20 passbook printer to handle
thicker passbooks. This gives the schools of Junta de Castilla the exibility to print
passbooks of up to 46 pages plus the cover.
Furthermore, the PLQ-20 delivers high-quality, long-lasting prints which reduce the scope
for counterfeit passbook entries.
As some of the schools had only a basic IT infrastructure, Epson provided Windows drivers
to ensure the printer installation was as straightforward as possible.
Junta de Castilla is delighted with Epson’s solution and has made an initial purchase
of 1,000 PLQ-20 printers.