Rising from the Ashes

When Lincoln Public Schools signed a $1.8 million contract with Xerox in 2006 to centralize its printing system, it was a major change for the Lincoln, Neb., school district’s nearly 3,000 teachers. Instead of using classroom printers to do their own printing, they were able to order jobs online, and let the printing center handle the copying, cutting, folding, stapling and collating.

Everything changed two years ago when a fire destroyed the district's office building, which housed the in-plant. Today, a new print center has replaced the small, outdated room that went up in flames. It has ample space for the eight-employee operation's array of digital printing and bindery equipment. An article in the Lincoln Journal Star details the in-plant's journey of transformation.