Sweet Home Alabama

"Since I have come to work here we have gone from electrostatic quick plates to top-of-the-line Mitsubishi Silvermaster plates," Thorne explains. "With our desktop publishing we can make a Silvermaster and go right to the press for a lot of runs that were requiring metal plates."

Thorne has worked hard to get new equipment for the shop, and then used this equipment exactly as he promised his parent company he would, bringing in a 30 to 40 percent savings over his outside competitors. Almost everything his customers need is done in-house, with very little work being outsourced. Thorne is proud of this fact, and says the only thing sent outside now is film for process color jobs.