Offset Still Essential

Thornton says the most popular jobs that Materials Production produces are color brochures and promotional pieces for the different schools in the district's magnet system. Attractive materials are needed to lure the county's best and brightest.

But it's not just in-plants specializing in high-volume color that have an arsenal of offset presses standing at the ready. In the heart of the Big Apple, AOL Time Warner Printing Services has a stock of four offset presses, including a four-color Komori 1420. It just picked up a two-color Toko press a year ago.