A Wide Open Opportunity

"The large-format ink-jet printer is really critical to our operations," he says.

While presentation work has helped justify the purchase of the wide-format machine, traditional products like signs, banners, posters and proofs still keep the machine busy.

Buy One Now

For those in-plants that do not own a wide-format printer, now is the time to buy, maintains Rick Wise, director of Printing Services at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The $8 million, 117-employee in-plant recently purchased its first wide-format printer, a Hewlett-Packard 5000.