The economy is showing signs of recovery as stocks shoot upward, unemployment dips and Americans start opening their wallets again. But are in in-plants seeing any growth in volume?  Here's what some in-plant managers said.

• Based on a comparison of our 2009 and 2010 volumes, our color is up 20% but our b/w is down by 30%. So much is being done in color. The mindset is why print in black and white when color is so cheap.
   
• We are very busy now and have been for 6+ months.  Part of this can be attributed to receiving first right of refusal and our strong undergraduate enrollment. A lot of our customers are doing more on the Web, so the university's overall printing is going down, but since we are getting a larger percentage of the work, we're busier than ever.
   
• We have not really seen much difference in volumes from last year. For the most part both digital and offset volume is still continuing to slightly decrease.
   
• Business from last year is about the same. Revenue growth remains unchanged.
   
• The drop we saw a couple years ago was mostly from changes in technology where more documents were scanned to email and the class syllabus was made available on Blackboard. The increase we are seeing currently is due to equipment changes made in the past 4 months. Outsourcing has decreased because of added capabilities and revenues are increasing.