The State of Oregon’s in-plant has saved millions for its customers, while enhancing document security.

By Erik Cagle

"Within days [of consolidating data centers], we tripled our data center print output," he says. "At the same time as the consolidation, we were doing a digital printing upgrade, so we moved our secure print facility to another location in the building that was much larger."

Print/Mail Merger

DAS Publishing & Distribution has had much success with consolidation; 10 years prior to the data center/print merge, the organization brought printing and mailing under one roof, which proved to be a major coupe on several fronts. The relationship between mailing and printing was greatly solidified, according to Gallagher, with the full staff concentrating on the big picture: printing, processing and mailing while obtaining the maximum postal discount.