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"Now we can do business cards, letterhead and envelopes in five minutes and get it to press," she notes. The shop still makes metal plates for its larger presses, but McMinn feels the poly plates are a good fit for the two-color work the in-plant produces.

Peach Of A Platemaker

Just south of Atlanta, at the in-plant for the Clayton County Public School System, an A.B.Dick Digital Plate Maker 2000 was recently added. The 9,000-square-foot shop acquired it to help produce jobs such as student handbooks and newsletters for the 45,000 students at its 48 schools, plus the 16 other related agencies it serves.