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Patrick Henry is the director of Liberty or Death Communications. He is also a former Senior Editor at NAPCO Media and long time industry veteran.

Providing services of any kind to the Houston Independent School District means thinking big—there's simply no other way to approach the task. Educating more than 220,000 students in a 301-square-mile network of elementary, middle and high schools, HISD is the seventh-largest public school system in the nation and the largest in Texas. With an annual budget in excess of $1.6 billion and a work force of more than 28,000 full- and part-time employees, HISD is a producer and a consumer of services on a truly Texas-sized scale.

HOW MUCH can one person do on his own? Charles Shorter has tested the limits in his one-man operation for the Harris County Appraisal District, in Houston. Some years he has reached three million impressions, using his Itek 975 perfector and a Multilith 1250. Since a merger with the computer department—which saw some of his smaller jobs migrate in their direction—his volumes have fluctuated from year to year, with big jobs sometimes landing on him unexpectedly. “I’m helping computer services on a two million impression job right now,” he says. “I have 606 cartons to print, and in the last four days I’m

In-Plant Graphics and the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association have announced the winners of the In-Print 2008 contest. Judges selected the 85 winners on March 31. The top winner, once again, was the University of Oklahoma, which claimed 11 awards. The University of Delaware won an impressive seven awards, while the University of North Texas was close behind with six. Collecting five prizes were the University of Texas-Houston and the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS. Brigham Young University won four awards. To find out which in-plants won, visit one of these two links: • Winners Listed by Company/Organization: www.ipgonline.com/story/story.bsp?sid=95817&var=story • Winners Listed by

Braving long drives through several inches of new snow, the judges convened in Salt Lake City on Monday to help pick the winners of this year’s In-Print contest. The judging took place in the offices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Printing Division, where LDS staff members had spent weeks sorting and cataloging the nearly 570 entries. The winners list included a mixture of new names (e.g. Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Montana State University) and familiar ones. The top winner, once again, was the University of Oklahoma, which claimed 11 awards. The University of Delaware won an impressive seven awards,

When Rustin Myers first joined the in-plant at Grocers Supply Co. his top priority was changing attitudes. From there, he went on to increase productivity. By Kristen E. Monte UPON HIS arrival at Grocers Supply Co., Rustin Myers quickly realized that the in-plant was neither productive for the parent company, nor service-oriented for the customer. "I came from the environment where you have to be customer-oriented," says Myers, senior printing services manager of the 26-employee operation. "Once you start helping people, they want to use your services." For the past 17 years, that's what he's been trying to do at the family-owned Houston-based company.

Managers Honored In-plant managers received more than just knowledge from the recent International Publishing Management Association conference in Portland, Ore. Dozens of them took home awards. The In-Print awards got the most attention. All 105 plaques were on display, and first-place winners had their awards presented to them on stage during the awards banquet. Boeing claimed the Best of Show victory, its fifth in 11 years. Additionally, IPMA recognized a number of in-plants for their accomplishments: • Duke Energy, of Houston, won IPMA's annual award for In-house Promotional Excellence for holding an open house in the company's lobby that drew more than 500

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