The '90s In Review - New Trends Aren't So New

• In-plants will have moved from general services to the marketing division.

• In-plants will take over mailing and fulfillment for communications products.

How many of our predictions came true for you?

Of course, missing from that article was any mention of in-plants merging with data center printing operations. In fact, another article in the same issue talked about in-plants battling with data centers over which equipment to buy—with no word of merging. This has become one of the prevalent trends in the latter part of the 1990s.