In-plant Profiles

A unique split-page Christmas card won Brigham Young University Print and Mail Services its forth Best of Show Award.

We asked five in-plant managers to tell us what they learned and what they wish they’d known before installing a digital color press.

It was the middle of the night when Larry Mills was struck with how important his job can be. His father had to be taken to the hospital and his mother was confused about the situation, struggling to understand everything the health care providers were telling her.

The in-plant at Our Daily Bread Ministries, a non-profit, global ministry, recently went live with Avanti Slingshot print MIS.

When Kandy House first enrolled in her vocational technical high school’s business program, studying graphic arts wasn’t anywhere on her radar. In fact, she says she didn’t even know exactly what the graphic arts were.

Formally established in 1863, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has, over the past century and a half, grown from a devoted offshoot of 19th-century revivalism into a global presence. Even as early as the 1840s, the small group of faithful that would become the church relied on the printed word to interconnect the community. It began…

If you peek beneath the feathers and webbed feet of the iconic Aflac Duck advertising character, you will find an in-house inkjet printing powerhouse that produces a heavy print workload for insurance industry giant Aflac’s wide customer base.

When the Pinnacol Print Shop installed a new Xerox Color 1000 in November, it was intended to produce invoices and statements for the Denver-based worker’s compensation provider. But the in-plant quickly learned that its new digital color press would allow it to produce Pinnacol Assurance’s collateral materials in-house as well—work that was previously being outsourced.

In June of 2014, 16 employees of Print, Mail, Copy (PMC) Solutions at the University of Arkansas were called into a conference room. Each one received a letter explaining that in two years, offset printing, which had been losing money, would be phased out of the in-plant and they would not be part of the plan moving forward.

“Just being in the room when decisions are being made, a lot of times, is the biggest challenge” for in-plants, declares Chuck Werninger, director of Administrative Services at the Houston Independent School District (HISD). “A lot of shops are deleted from the plan before they ever hear about the plan.”