“We were the first to offer this service,” said John.ġ2 years later John sold his shop and went into managing a wholesale import company and also worked as an Operations Manager for San Diego Chamber of Commerce. The operation proved to be successful and grew to 5 copy machines in 3,500 sq ft of space and services expanded to include rented use of apple computers and paid fax services.
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“We were a full service shop then offering everything from printing and mail services to office supplies and complete finishing and binding services”, says John. In a 500 sq ft space in a Chula Vista strip mall, John purchased a Xerox 9500 Analog copier, put up a sign and opened for business. He found a partner and John says, “We risked everything we had to open In-and-Out Copies in San Diego in 1980.” Kinko’s, also a San Diego based start up, was the leader in the market at the time and John took notice. from Sonoma State University and recognized a growing need in the market for a vendor to provide convenient copy services to the general public. He grew up in the South Bay area of San Diego County and got his start in printing working in the private sector. John is a career printer and a California native. We also serve some of the most affluent in the world in Rancho Mirage and Indian Wells which are home to individuals like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and the Obama family.” We serve some of the poorest in the country with our immigrant farmer population in the Coachella Valley and Indio. John shared, “We have a unique socioeconomic situation. DSUSD is a public school district whose main offices are located in La Quinta, California a resort city in Riverside County located in the Coachella Valley between Indian Wells and Indio.ĭSUSD is one of the top 3 employers in the city and the district consists of eighteen elementary schools, one charter elementary school, six middle schools, one charter middle school, four comprehensive high schools, two continuation high schools, one alternative education school and a preschool.ĭSUSD recently celebrated 50 years as a unified school district.
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Jane contributes topics and content to be presented at the annual PSP User Group meeting and is a power PSP User. Jane is also a member of the edu User Group Steering Committee. Jane Yoshimura, Reprographics Specialist, joined the department 6 years ago and works as John’s right hand. It was great fun reminiscing with John about the good ol’ days and reflecting back on how PSP has progressed over the years to meet the changing needs of today’s inplant print shop. John connected with edu over 15 years ago at a CASBO user group meeting. We had the pleasure of catching up with our very first Print Shop Pro® customer, John Gildner, Graphic Services Director at Desert Sands Unified School District (DSUSD).
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