The Magic Of Print-on-demand

"We produce a quarterly newsletter that's distributed to more than 1,500 subscribers," he says. "Production time has been slashed from several weeks to four days. Routine printing projects that used to take several days now take several hours."

Outside Piper's office is a cavernous two-story building almost a block long. The warehouse used to house millions of publications issued by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service—everything from how to kill fire ants to the pregnancy rates of beef cows. Piper's goal is to replace pallets of paper with print-on-demand publications.