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May 2012

In-plant Graphics May 2012

Helping Yale Looks its Best

in 2008, Yale University decided to begin construction of a new Yale School of Management. Yale Printing & Publishing Services was located in a building that was scheduled for demolition. To determine whether outsourcing made sense, the...

Current Features

From the Editor: ACUP Class Reunion

I just got back from a wonderful four-day visit to Harrisburg, Pa. That’s not something you usually hear people crowing about, I know, but Harrisburg was where the Association of College and University Printers held its 47th annual conference, and...

Teamwork, Technology Revive In-plant

A year and a half ago, Shana Farrell, Printing Services and Distance Learning Manager at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wis., organized a recognition event for her staff of six. She invited not only her boss but the...

Two Keys to Fighting Outsourcing: Benchmarks and Vision

Despite the painfully sluggish recovery of the economy, the competitive threats to in-plants are not diminishing. The reason: print volumes are not returning to pre-recession volumes, so fewer in-plants are achieving their goals (i.e,. financial break-even), leaving the door open...

At ASU In-plant, ‘It’s About the Students’

Student workers are a common sight at higher-ed in-plants, but it's rare to find one where 79 percent of the employees are students. That's the scenario at the Arizona State University Print & Imaging Lab....

Digital Makeover Boosts Business for UTHealth

Before adding a digital color press in 2010, Donna Cooper Horbelt says her in-plant at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) was not nearly as busy as she wanted it to be. "I was losing color...

Sidetrack Leads to Success

When she headed off to college in the early '80s, Lisa Hoover knew exactly where her studies would take her. "I wanted to be a TV news anchor," says Hoover, director of Bucknell University's Office of Publications, Print and Mail....