Politics And Printing

"It turns out at the time we had farmed that job out," he recalls. A janitor at the commercial printer grabbed a copy and gave it to a friend. Printing such jobs in-house, Dougherty maintains, will keep them more secure, since in-plant employees have more loyalty to the parent organization.

Getting good in-plant employees, though—that's another issue entirely. Wilson, of the Alabama Department of Finance, says he's having a tough time hiring trained employees because the graphic arts schools are putting too much emphasis on computer skills and not enough on ink and paper. "That's a major problem," he says. IPG