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The decision was made. Vanderbilt University Printing Services would be shut down. Employees received layoff notices in March, and the Nashville in-plant was scheduled to close on June 1. And then the coronavirus hit.

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.

Balancing offset and digital printing technologies is a daily occurrence at many in-plants. Deciding which technology to use comes down to more than just run length, however.

Fujifilm Graphic Systems Division has announced that it will sponsor the Inkjet Summit and Wide-format Summit 2020, now taking place August 17-19 at the Hyatt Lost Pines in Austin, Texas.

In response to the continuing need for check printing, Konica Minolta has introduced a MICR version of the AccurioPress 6136. It uses patented MICR Toner Secure technology to maximize readability and make toner scraping nearly impossible.

Heidelberg's financial year has been impacted by the deteriorated economic climate caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has rolled out a comprehensive package of measures to counteract this downturn and boost profitability.

The team at Printing Services at the University of West Alabama is always looking for new revenue streams. It found what it was looking for in a tabletop printer for making plaques, trophies, and window decals.

Revenue losses have been severe at university in-plants during the COVID-19 crisis. In our latest podcast, IPI Editor Bob Neubauer talks with the directors of three major university in-plants in different parts of the country about how they are coping with the loss of work and how they are adapting to this new reality.

Few in-plants are as busy right now as those serving hospitals and health care facilities. Their staffs are reporting to work to print critical materials to help hospitals save the lives of COVID-19 patients.

COVID-19 has hit every in-plant. Some are printing in overdrive. Others are dangerously slow. Many are stepping forward in these dark times to prove their value.