From Low Performer to Best in Class

The offset presses were moved out in one day, and the facility was rearranged into a series of "specialist" areas around a hub of Xerox machines: three D125 black-and-white printers, a DocuColor 8080, a Color 700 and a Color 1000. The shop retained a Duplo digital duplicator for smaller NCR jobs.

In the short term, the in-plant saw a small drop in print volume as it found its footing. Tarter deployed the newly minted digital project specialists to every principal and department head in the district, and over the next two years brought volume back up and beyond what the shop had been producing to nearly $1 million in annual print revenue. While right of first refusal still hasn't become official policy, the overhaul on its own has reduced outsourcing by 20 percent. As of March 31, impressions for the current fiscal year are 5,727,314 and are expected to reach 7.5 million by June 30.