Joe Morin

When an in-plant “goes green,” recycling paper waste is typically among its first initiatives.  After all, the waste has to be removed anyway, recycling doesn’t require a large capital outlay and, in the words of many, “it’s just the right thing to do.” Plus, once upon a time, shops found that it really paid (literally) to recycle paper.  “It used to be that you could take your trimmings to a recycler, which would weigh the waste and pay you for it,” recalls Joe Morin, manager of Production Printing for Colorado Springs School District 11’s Business Services division. “Later, the recycling plant would give you a big dumpster, pick up [the waste] and still pay for it.”

YOU MIGHT be running the latest high-speed digital printers, but if your bindery equipment hasn’t been new since the Reagan era, you’ve lost the fast turnaround advantage you were counting on. Not only that, the quality of your cuts, folds and binds is probably not as good as it could be. Just ask Joe Morin, Production Printing manager at Colorado Springs School District 11. His in-plant just replaced its 26-year-old collator with a new Standard Horizon SPF-200A stitcher/folder and an FC200A trimmer. “The benefits over the previous solution are significant: improved workflow, increased efficiencies through reduced labor and setup waste, and a

School district in-plants provide valuable support to their schools, allowing teachers to focus on student achievement. By Bob Neubauer Public school has changed a lot since you were a kid. I don't just mean the addition of computers into the classroom nor the lax dress codes that would make your eyes pop. These days, many schools are specializing in specific subjects and allowing students to choose schools based on their own interests. For example, at Pinellas County Schools, in Largo, Fla., the district's 145 schools focus on such diverse topics as marine science, health care, computers and the arts. Students can pick

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