Postpress — The Buck Starts And Stops Here

"By doing it in-house, we now have complete control over a job and we can turn it around a lot faster than we used to when we were outsourcing work," he adds.

By not farming out the finishing jobs, Atamain was able to parlay the savings into the necessary equipment and hire a pair of workers for the department. With four to five jobs a day requiring some degree of finishing, it wasn't hard to justify the initial payout. Haig's Quality Printing now operates a scoring and slitting machine, along with a folder/gluer for doing presentation folders and key packets. Since Atamain also does foil stamping and embossing, the only finishing aspect he needs to outsource is dies work.