Making the Grade at Charlotte-Mecklenburg

“People are expecting older-generation technology, so when they see this, it really leaves them with the impression that we are a leading-edge operation,” says Griffin. “We still have a camera, and we still have all the darkroom equipment, but I haven’t been in the darkroom in over a year.”

On the digital print side, the shop’s new hotshot, the Xerox iGen3, has been pumping out huge amounts of print-on-demand work— 500,000 copies in February. It took 14 months of research and work with the purchasing department to get the iGen3, Griffin says.