Politics And Printing

In Nevada, though, Bailey wants to handle all CD burning in-house. He has earmarked money in the new budget for high-end CD reproduction equipment.

"We want to be the producer of that, because that's revenue," he notes.

Elsewhere, government in-plants are consolidating with other in-house departments. Oregon is a good example. Six years ago, its Department of Administrative Services pulled together its in-plant, several mailing operations and three mainframe printing departments into one central operation. On-time delivery improved from 70 percent to more than 98 percent and postal expenses dropped by a third.