Urban Legends

Armed with a handful of presses, the Department of Health's in-plant also takes on work from digital-heavy in-plants elsewhere in the Big Apple.

Healthy Partnership

Clifford Harvey, graphics department director, runs one of those in-plants—for the Department of Sanitation—and he says his shop has enjoyed a partnership with the health department since 1996. But just because he's farming out offset work, doesn't mean the eight-employee operation can rest on its laurels. The sanitation department is one of the only city agencies to interact with most city residents almost daily. So public communication is an important part of the agency's business model.