Insource Your Way To Success

"Look at the amount of downtime. For us, the printing fluctuates so much that we're either swamped or we're dead," he says. "This business helps fill in those gaps, and so far it's worked out very well."

Russell Bartholow, assistant director of Printing Services at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, agrees. This university in-plant was already handling 98 percent of the school's printing needs, but it still had the capacity to do more. So, like many in-plants that insource, Printing Services decided to keep to the industry it knew and looked to other schools and state agencies for business.