Making the Grade at Charlotte-Mecklenburg

“I never would have believed we would generate so much volume off that equipment,” he says.

The shop’s other gear includes several Ryobi presses, a Riso duplicator, and Xerox DocuTech and DocuColor printers. It also has two Xerox 665 scanners.

Cost Cutting Measures

In part to stay in line with the superintendent’s direction to drive fiscal responsibility, and in part because it made good business sense anyway, the Graphic Production department at Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District has looked for areas in which it could cut costs. For most K-12 in-plants, the busiest time of year is actually the summer, when all the forms, letters and educational material required for the year is being printed. During those hectic few months, Director Alvin Griffin brings on school district bus drivers on a temporary basis. As a result, he gets the help he needs without having to hire full-time. He earns points with the transportation department as well because it can more easily retain employees it might otherwise lose during the summer.