Fort Lauderdale

The in-plant at Holy Cross Hospital was already small, but budget cuts have brought the number of full-time employees down to just three, including the supervisor of Printing Services, Carl Zalaznik. “Every department has had to tighten its belt, and summer is always slow in Fort Lauderdale, so business won’t pick up until fall,” he notes. That said, Zalaznik is still bringing in new work. When the hospital recently purchased an outpatient center from a competitor, necessitating new business cards and stationery, Zalaznik underbid outside vendors and captured this extra business. To make do with less staff, Zalaznik applied for volunteer help from

Color jobs have been on the rise for years. To meet the demand, in-plant managers are increasingly turning to color copiers. by Mike Llewellyn Battelle is a Columbus, Ohio-based research and development firm that relies heavily on its in-plant's color copying services. Brian Soppelsa, manager of Publications Management and Production, says his shop had been using a Xerox DocuColor 30 for five years, and has had a Canon CLC 1150 for just over one year now. "They're busy machines," he observes. "We run almost everything off of them—a lot of proposals, reports, presentations and in-house distribution pieces." "Busy" is how most managers describe their