In-plant Saves County Thousands
You don’t always have to wait until you get new equipment to start finding work for it. That’s how Bill Neff managed to bring the printing and mailing of county tax and revenue statements into his in-plant—a major job comprising more than 230,000 pieces a year.
“I sold [the job] as a package, and as soon as I got a guarantee that it was going to come in, I went right out and bought the Maximailer,” says Neff, printing manager for the General Services Division of Arlington County, Virginia.
The nine-employee in-plant installed the PFE Maximailer inserter in October, at the same time it upgraded from a Xerox 6115 to a Nuvera 288. As a result, it was ready to handle the thousands of tax and revenue statements from the treasurer and the commissioner of revenue. The three-page statement is printed on the Nuvera, which can print 288 duplex impressions per minute. It is then inserted, along with a return envelope, using the Maximailer, which can process up to 4,500 envelopes per hour.
“We’re saving an average of about 7 cents a piece,” proclaims Neff. That comes out to $16,170 a year.
The in-plant has also saved the county some time by doing the job in-house.
“Most of it goes back out the same day,” says Neff. “If they want to pull something, where they made a mistake, we can pull it.
“Now that we have the equipment out there, we have other people coming on board,” he adds. “We do W2 forms, which we never did before.” The shop is also now handling retirement statements.
This isn’t the only new business the in-plant has taken on. It is now providing scanning for the archival of building documents, elevator records and other materials. It uses a new Xerox 721 Print System.
- Companies:
- PFE
- Xerox Corp.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
