School In-plants Achieve Straight-A Performance

"There's still a lot of two-color that requires printing," says Brian Chepren, supervisor.

Even so, offset still makes up only 15 percent of the shop's work. The rest goes to its two new Canon imageRunner 110s, an iR 105 and a CLC 5100.

In Richmond County, Georgia, the Board of Education's in-plant went almost all digital six years ago, adding two Xerox DocuTech 6135s (one with a signature bookletmaker, one with a Digicoil punch), a DocuTech 120, a DocuColor 2060, a DocuColor 12 and a WorkCentre M45. The inline binding on the machines has eliminated the bindery step, letting jobs go right from the printer to packaging and delivery.