Mass Transition

Consequently, the facility is now able to print Metro's annual report in-house, along with especially complex technical manuals.

"For example, we print manuals that contain a lot of electronic schematics," Swagler notes. "One manual is 180 pages, about 40 percent of which are legal-sized and leaf-folded. On our old equipment, we had to fold and collate those pages manually, which took about 45 minutes per book for a run of 200 to 300 books. Now, we're printing and collating in the equipment, which takes less than five minutes per book."