Passing the Test

Karl’s in-plant, which has five full-time employees and two staff members who work one or two hours daily, aims to fulfill all classroom orders in 24 hours—a goal that’s aided by the ability to take orders via e-mail through scanners.

“The district had been using work order couriers to go to buildings, collect orders, and bring them to us, but we were wondering how to get the orders quicker,” she says. “We were doing a copier bid at the time, so we included scanners in the bid. Our technical person then set it up so that teachers can scan their orders from the copiers [Konica Minolta 7155s and 7145s]. A lot of schools do this for 100 percent of their orders, and they’ll receive those jobs the next day by courier.