The Harris

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