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The state of California also faces those tight, legally mandated deadlines. All business conducted by the state legislature has to be published the next morning, says Carl Sterkel, printing plant superintendent at the California Office of State Publishing (OSP), in Sacramento.

The in-plant uses an eight-unit Heidelberg M-1000 MV to print voter pamphlets, income tax forms, motor vehicle books, newsletters and other web work. It installed the press just a couple of years ago—and no one is looking forward to moving it now that OSP is being forced to move its operation. The in-plant also runs some older Hantscho webs, and State Printer Joe Hills has talked about upgrading those with new web equipment after the move.