A passion for marketing and a drive to succeed have brought industry recognition to Tonya Demerson and her in-plant.

By Joe Ranoia

At that time, Administrative Services did all desktop and computer work for the city, and provided some printing and graphic services. As computer use became more widespread in the city, the department began to focus on its reprographic side.

An In-plant Comes to Life

At first, the in-plant had only black-and-white Xerox equipment, desktop color printers, lamination and a bindery. Soon, however, color copier/printers arrived. Then the city data center merged with Reprographics, which added a Xerox 4850 and a wide-format printer. Now, the five-person Reprographics department produces roughly 35,000 color impressions and 87,000 black-and-white impressions per month and operates on a $600,000 budget.