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In December, the State of Tennessee's 50-employee in-plant installed a Xerox Color 1000 digital press. In addition to being able to handle a greater variety of stocks, the machine has greatly improved the quality of the in-plant’s color output.

Taking place only once every four years, the drupa international printing trade fair is a huge show. By the time it wrapped up its two-week stint in Düsseldorf, Germany, last month 314,500 visitors from more than 130 countries had walked its 19 halls and visited its 1,850 exhibitors.

With his combined IT and business background, Ohio native Roger Chamberlain was the perfect person to run The Cincinnati Insurance Companies' printing operation in Fairfield, OH. “It was a place to settle in and call home,” says Chamberlain.

By consolidating four printing operations into one, Fidelity Investments’ Document Printing Services has already saved $1 million in costs. An influx of new equipment and software enhancements promises to further boost efficiency and effectiveness.

Sometimes design is part of an in-plant's responsibilities and sometimes not. But for Valdosta State University's in-plant, providing customers with a little file design help is translating into more business and better turnaround times.

After announcing a bevy of partnerships at Drupa last week, Memjet has added another major digital vendor to the list. It is now partnering with Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. for the development of a wide-format printer featuring Memjet components.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham's in-plant is about a month away from packing up and relocating to a new facility. IPG Editor Bob Neubauer visited the in-plant recently and talked with Director Steve Murray about the upcoming move.

As the University of Alabama at Birmingham's in-plant prepares to relocate, IPG tours the plant they are soon to leave behind.

After opening its 19 halls to the public yesterday, drupa 2012 is in full swing right now in Dusseldorf, Germany. IPG's sister publication, Printing Impressions, has two editors walking the show floor. With 1,850 exhibitors from 56 countries showing their wares, our editors have more than their share of work ahead of them. Here are just a few of the reports that have trickled back to IPG.

Xerox gathered a dozen or so university in-plant managers together recently in Birmingham, Ala., for its annual Higher Education Customer Advisory Council Meeting. Attended by in-plants from Yale, Penn State, RIT, Bucknell, Villanova, University of Louisville, Ithaca College, Citrus College and several others, the meeting featured interesting speakers, excellent discussions and a tour of the University of Alabama-Birmingham’s in-plant.