In-Plant Profiles

Kilgore College Print Services was bent on providing the offset quality the shop originally produced before going all-digital. Its new digital press is handling that requirement very well.

Beyond supporting the World Bank’s mission of ending poverty, the Best of Show winning piece showed off the in-plant staff’s extraordinary attention to detail.

With dozens of crossovers, UV spot coating and a very tight deadline, the Church of Scientology's winning piece was truly worthy of recognition.

For in-plants, solid outcomes often require hard decisions about staffing, technology and services offered. This university print center made them — and prospered by sticking to them.

The in-plant for C&S Wholesale Grocers is always looking for new and more creative ways to help further the company’s mission.

“Printing got a hold of me and did not let go,” says Mike Lincoln, whose career began in an in-plant, then took a variety of turns before returning to the in-plant world.

Ellen Abbey has some strong advice for any organization thinking about closing its in-plant and hiring a print outsourcing firm: “Don’t do it!” She should know. She spent five years trying to make it work before kicking that company out and bringing back the in-plant.

Printing for the country’s largest police force has its challenges, but the NYPD Printing Section — like the officers it serves — is trained and ready to handle almost anything.

By adding two production inkjet presses, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Print Solutions is prepared to handle the “exponential” growth of its digital print business.

Production inkjet is helping this in-plant to do an even better job of connecting donors to the children they sponsor through the exchange of personalized correspondence.