In-Plant Profiles

From producing PPE to cultivating cross-media services, the University of California, San Francisco, Documents and Media department has always been ready to adjust its services to fit the university’s needs.

Digital printing may be on the rise at Ohio State, but the need for offset is still strong. Adding a new five-color press just made sense.

Though lured into graphic communications by the “artsy stuff,” Chelle Palmer, found she loved being a press operator, a passion that has changed her life.

Though well known for its high-volume offset printing, University of Alabama Printing Services uses a range of wide-format printing and cutting technologies to produce nearly all campus graphics and signage.

PRIDE Enterprises, which runs vocational training programs for inmates in the Florida Department of Corrections, uses its Canon VarioPrint i300+ high-speed sheetfed inkjet press to teach inmates the skills they need to get decent jobs after their release from prison.

Before installing an HP 365 wide-format latex printer and cutter, Elon University Print Services had to outsource jobs that needed to be contour cut. The new device has brought that work back in-house.

Though it recently installed a five-color RMGT 940 offset press, University of Missouri-Columbia Print & Mail Services has not neglected the toner side of its business. It recently upgraded its digital presses to streamline production of its shorter-run jobs.

Recent investments at University of Pittsburgh Printing Services have not only automated the in-plant’s production, but allowed it to digitally embellish the pieces it prints.

Sticking with a legacy Web-to-print system is fine — until you experience all the features a modern system offers, as one in-plant discovered.

Harsher than an Alaskan winter is the cold, dark reality of COVID-19, which has hit the University of Alaska, Anchorage, just as hard as other schools. Fortunately, its in-plant knows how to adapt to harsh conditions.