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A MERGER that results in the creation of a dynamic financial institution and can boast two in-plant printing sites is a great success story that ends with a thud. I don’t recommend trying to build better in-plants through subtraction and I take comfort in the fact that none of my staff was harmed in the production of this story. Defying Gravity “They are going to close you.” my wife said, as I left for work, “I don’t know why you bother to keep taking meetings.” I didn’t answer. I couldn’t allow myself to be that pragmatic. I did what I always did when

No one disputes the fact that four-color printing is on the rise. People seem to expect it. Yet a recent IPG survey shows that just 25 percent of in-plants have presses that print four or more colors. Ask the others why they don't and they'll say that their management would never OK such a huge expense. They'll say their in-plant is just too small or that their parent organization doesn't want them to compete with local commercial printers that offer four-color printing. Yet those in-plants that own four-color presses were once in the same boat. How did they get their presses?

A life-long printer, Mike Renn has found success through communication and industry involvement. By Mike Llewellyn BORN AND raised in Philadelphia, Mike Renn, assistant vice president of Corporate Services at Mellon Financial, is loyal to his hometown—and his employer. On his sister's recommendation he took a job in the print shop at Philly-based Girard Bank in 1974, a decade before Mellon purchased it. Printing was a great fit for Renn even then, as he was a bit of an art aficionado, and he had taken printing in high school. The job put him close to his passion. "What I like about printing is