Easing Into E-commerce

• Supply sites, where printers can purchase equipment, paper and consumables.

In-plants: Part Printer, Part Buyer

Since in-plants, unlike standard commercial print shops, function as both printers and print buyers, they have the potential to use most of these sites from both sides. As printers, for example, they can insource jobs by visiting auction sites and bidding on jobs outside their parent organizations. When they need print services for jobs they can't do in-house, they can auction these jobs off.