Urban Renewal, One Bill At A Time

“The operators I had at the time were retiring, and it seemed to be best to go with an automated system,” McElvaney notes. “It really made the transition easy, because once they were trained on the GBRs, we could program the jobs and basically let the machine do the rest.”

McElvaney notes that the shop perforates every bill it processes, saving the city money by avoiding purchasing pre-perfed paper. Paper is acquired using a low-bid city contract. The in-plant also has cut down on overtime and utilizes a sorter to get a discount from the post office. McElvaney reports that there are preliminary plans to move the printing facility to the mailing center.