A Giant Moves On

For the past nine months, this massive in-plant—with 167 employees and eight multi-color presses, including a six-color Heidelberg and a web press—has been undertaking a huge relocation project, while continuing to conduct business as usual.

"A business plan was developed to move with little or no business interruption for our customers," explains Sue Sheehan, associate director of UC-Berkeley Printing Services. "In order to do this, we identified two new pieces of equipment for purchase—a four-color, 40˝ Heidelberg press with coater [delivered last month] and a six-pocket Heidelberg 270 stitcher with two cover feeders, installed last summer when we started the move. The first piece of [existing] equipment that we moved was a 20-pocket, Muller Martini Star perfect binder."