Printing Plant Layout and Facility Design

Expanding, relocating, or building a new printing facility is a sizable undertaking. Printing Plant Layout and Facility Design, Third Edition, presents best practices to help printers of all sizes develop optimum facility designs for their printing operations and support services, regardless of whether they are building a new facility, adding on to an existing building, acquiring a new plant, or rearranging the old one. Author A. John Geis offers insights into some of the following key considerations: * Area requirements * Site Planning * Moving into a larger facility * Information networking * Key considerations for web, sheetfed, and digital printers * Binding and finishing requirements * Environmental controls and utilities * Support services (shipping, receiving, storage, restrooms, lunch/vending areas, etc.) * Administrative/office areas * Materials handling