In-Plant Profiles

The University of Delaware’s in-plant was already a trusted and valuable resource, but when the pandemic hit, it was deemed essential to the university. It has proven its value many times over.

The efficiency of digital printing can be squandered if the postpress process isn’t equally efficient. Facing just such a disconnect, the in-plant at the University of California, Santa Cruz considered its options and installed a solution that resolves the output problem and increases the in-plant's value.

When you’re a printer, you don’t want a small flaw to ruin an otherwise beautiful printed piece, but that’s what was happening at Wichita State University’s Shocker Printing Solutions -- until the in-plant found a solution.

Though she didn’t set out to be a printer, Kristen Hampton has come to love her career, the people she works with, and the opportunity to serve the citizens of Michigan.

Adding vinyl cutting, laser engraving, dye-sublimation, and other services has kept MadLab Technologies relevant at Central Washington University.

The Center for Print Production at Ithaca College has pivoted production to develop FDA-approved face shields and acrylic sneeze guards.

After Tropical Storm Sandy struck in October 2012, the United Nations’ Publishing Section began outsourcing long-run, more complex publications. A recent installation at the New York City operation, however, may put an end to some of the outsourcing and bring a portion of that work back in-house. 

Over the past three years, the in-house sign shop at the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Publications has flourished. To reduce overtime and expand the in-plant’s capabilities, the in-plant recently installed a wide-format flatbed printer.

The hardest part about getting new equipment during a pandemic is not being able to use it. That’s what the University of Michigan’s Print, Copy, Mail department is facing after adding a pair of Canon imagePRESS C10000VP digital presses in March — just as the COVID-19 slowdown began.

One promotion after another, Barbara Childers has made her way from work study student to director of Document Services at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.