Mike Sprayberry

Since childhood, Mike Sprayberry has loved printing. His enthusiasm has helped First Tennessee Bank's in-plant prosper. YOU MIGHT say printing is in Mike Sprayberry's blood, but even if it isn't it's definitely under his skin—and he couldn't be happier. Sprayberry, 51, is print shop manager at First Tennessee Bank, in Memphis, just down the road from his birth place of Covington, Tenn. When he was eight, his mother remarried and moved the family of two boys and five girls to Memphis, where they began working in their step-father's print shop. It was there that Sprayberry first caught the printing bug and received the ink

Bank in-plants face big changes as banks continue to merge and expand. With bank mergers on the rise, and online banking changing the way people deal with their banks, the in-plants that serve these institutions are undergoing alterations of their own. Print volume is increasing and work is migrating from forms to marketing pieces. Digital job delivery is becoming more common, as is on-demand printing. In Memphis, Tenn., Mike Sprayberry, print shop manager for First Tennessee Bank, is about to add a Xerox DocuTech 6135 so he can store jobs digitally and reduce the amount of work that is warehoused. "We've got several