Big Lots Gets Big Overhaul

The Xerox 2060 and 6060 machines help churn out the color layouts, or "Plan-A-Grams," that illustrate how merchandise is to be displayed. They can range from five to 100 pages in length.

"Four years ago, we didn't even have our DocuTechs networked—everything was done from the glass," Layman explains. "It has been a huge paradigm shift, no question about it. But a large part of this, as much as I would like to say how wonderful a person I am and how great it is to take all the credit for it, was timing. We were in the perfect place to move from the old to the new technology. I know a lot of printers have got caught in that and don't know when the right time is to make that move. We hit it right on the head."