His Kind Of Town

Fighting The Firms

The most important lesson to learn when you're running a printing service, says Compton, is that "time is money."

"For instance, why run an 8-1⁄2x11˝ when I can be running 11x17˝?" he asks.

The in-plant's Avanti job tracking system made such issues more clear.

"We started being able to see trends in the shop. Bottle necking," he says. "There have been times when I realized that instead of doing two makereadies, I could do just one and gang the job."