Politics And Printing

This can have unforeseen consequences. In Ohio, a similar law requires agencies to use the Office of State Printing's services. Enforcement, however, is left to the agencies, and the law doesn't apply to all of them, says Joe Tucker, administrator of the Columbus-based operation, part of the Department of Administrative Services. Some agencies have used this lack of DAS enforcement to start mini in-plants of their own. One agency, Tucker says, bought two Xerox 6180s, though it outputs only 200,000 impressions a month on each.