Wholesale & Retail In-plants-

At Belk Stores Services, in Charlotte, N.C., the focus is on on-demand printing. Manager Ray Ridenhour says jobs with run lengths of 20,000 three years ago have been reduced to 5,000 today.

Ridenhour says that about 10 percent of the in-plant's jobs come in over the network, sent directly to the imagesetter from the company's creative department. Serving 280 stores, his 19-employee in-plant processes and ships 100 to 280 orders of supply forms daily.