Lightning Source — Electrified Book Production

In addition, crucial homegrown MIS systems automate the shop. “We’re printing 40,000 books a day, so you do the math as to how many orders that could be. The system has to catch the orders, classify them, sort them, control output to the presses, and bring it all back together and ship to the right customer—mostly in 12 hours,” he points out. “There’s nothing in the marketplace that I’m aware of that can turn you into a one-off printer. It makes no difference to us if all 40,000 books are single orders.”