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"It's been working out pretty well," he says.

Though he refuses non-government jobs to avoid competing with outside printers, Bartels says this additional work brings in a nice profit. Because of this, he adds, the school board has looked favorably on his requests for equipment upgrades.

"We've been able to stay real current," he says, noting that his shop was the first in northeast Iowa to get a Xerox digital copier. For many jobs, the in-plant uses a direct imaging duplexing press from Multigraphics called the System 11.