Labels, Course Packets, Manuals — You Can Print
Them Here
Ann Grattan, manager of Printing
Services on the Homewood campus.
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By Greg Rienzi The Gazette
Whether you need 50 multicolor invitations printed on
brown fiber paper or 50,000 black-and-white copies of a
letter, the university has in-house offices that can get
the job done at inexpensive rates.
Johns Hopkins' oldest and largest print and copy
operation is Printing Services, a division of the
Office of Design and
Publications. Founded in 1954, it was originally called
Duplications.
Located in the basement level of the Homewood campus's
Wyman Park Building, Printing Services today offers a host
of copying, printing and binding services. It handles jobs
small (a box of business cards) to mammoth (100,000 copies
of a letter to prospective students).
Printing Services ranks University Administration as
its biggest client, but it offers full services to faculty,
staff and students in all university divisions. Ann
Grattan, Printing Services' manager, said that while the
majority of its work is done for Homewood-based clients,
the office has regular customers at the East Baltimore
campus, Bayview Medical Center, Peabody Institute and the
School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.
In terms of printing, Printing Services can produce
documents up to four colors and of various shapes or sizes.
With new digital machines, the office can turn around in
hours projects that used to take five to seven days to
complete.
The service works on more than 5,000 jobs annually,
producing, among others, event programs, stationery,
invitations, benefits announcements, business cards,
newsletters, certificates, course packets and labels. It
also does many kinds of bindings, including tape,
saddle-stitching, GBC and coil.
Grattan said Printing Services can handle nearly any
project size, but if a job is not geared to its equipment,
it outsources it to preferred vendors. September and
October are Printing Services' two busiest months, she
said, as the nine-person staff works around the clock to
prepare course materials and flex-plan benefits
documents.
"We work a lot of weekends during that period," she
said. "In general, we work weekends and holidays if need
be. We realize people need their jobs finished by a certain
day, and we do whatever it takes to meet that deadline."
While most university offices have their own basic
copy machines, the in-house copy services at Johns Hopkins
offer the latest in copying technology, with lightning-fast
digital machines that can produce one-sided and two-sided
copies, booklets and stapled projects. Documents can also
be stored to memory, so an entire job only has to be
scanned in once and can be reprinted later with a touch of
a button.
In East Baltimore, Steven Cawunder
heads up Reprographics, whose biggest duplication jobs are
policy and procedure manuals, research grants and patient
forms.
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The Applied Physics Laboratory has its own print and
copy shop, called the Print Facility. It offers
black-and-white and color copying, graphics services and
digital printing. For graphics, the facility offers digital
and OCR scanning, color manipulation, image combing and
complete page assembly. Standard jobs include technical
publications, manuals, handbooks, brochures, newsletters
and stationery. It can also create and maintain internal
and external mailing lists and print labels.
There are two facilities on the East Baltimore
campus-located on the fifth floor of the School of Public
Health and on the seventh floor of the 1830 Building-that
provide solely copying services for university and hospital
employees.
The largest printing and copy center on the East
Baltimore campus is Reprographics, a nearly 50-year-old
service.
Manager Steven Cawunder, who has worked at
Reprographics for 32 years, said that his office typically
handles duplication of such documents as patient forms,
policy and procedure manuals and research grants.
The average turnaround time for a project is 24 hours,
Cawunder said, and his prices are typically lower than at a
Kinko's or similar print or copy shop.
Andrew Foster, manager of the
School of Public Health's Copy Center.
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"We are here only to meet cost, not turn a profit, so
we can offer significant cost savings to our university and
hospital customers," he said.
Largest project? Cawunder said his office used nearly
half a million pieces of paper on a job this year for the
hospital's Department of Human Resources.
Printing Services' Grattan says that while many of the
university campuses have retail print and copy shops
nearby, there are benefits other than cost savings for
sticking in-house.
"We know how to do these particular jobs and can
prioritize. We know how people want their finished project
and can usually can get it done faster," she said. "Perhaps
above all, we have a track record. And, if you're on the
Homewood campus, we'll also deliver right to your desk,
free of charge."
Johns Hopkins Printing and Copying
Services
Printing Services
G88 Wyman Park Building, Homewood
Customers: university system
Services: black-and-white and color copying, offset
printing, digital printing and binding
Contact: 410-516-8025
Applied Physics Laboratory Print Facility
Building 23, Room 1-E23
Customers: APL staff only
Reprographics Services
B209 Meyer Building, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Customers: university, health system
Services: black-and-white and color copying, binding,
printing
Contact: 410-955-6010
Copy Center at School of Public Health
WB501 School of Public Health
Customers: university system
Services: black-and-white and color copying, self-service
copying
Contact: 410-955-3847
Copy Center at School of Medicine
Suite 7016, 1830 Building
Customers: university system
Services: black-and-white and color copying, binding
Contact: 410-955-6909
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