By Howie Fenton, Rochester Software Associates: As we emerge from two very challenging years, some in-plant printers are beginning to worry that business conditions and production volumes are not improving or increasing quickly enough, causing them to wonder, “What’s next?”. While the staff is returning to work, most business conditions are not improving. We learned recently that one university in-plant survived the last two years by consolidating staff, cross-training everyone, and performing more like a nimble, small commercial company where all staff did all tasks. This blog will discuss the motivation, previous in-plant consolidation trends, and some thoughts to consider if you need to plan for the consolidation of staff or services.

Historically, there have been a few consolidations of in-plant services that have become industry trends. These consolidation trends include consolidation of print and mail services, mergers of copy centers and print production services, consolidations of transactional and graphic arts printing, and consolidations of merging companies (i.e., healthcare companies).

The critical question is, what are these poor business conditions, and will they continue? The business conditions creating the decline include:


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SOURCE Rochester Software Associates

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