No Chads This Time
“More and more of the departments are looking for that,” he explains. “They need to be able to tell the citizens that ‘this is printed in an environmentally friendly way.’ ”
Schmuger plans to move the shop toward FSC certification after the election is over.
Ballots aren’t the only thing this in-plant produces. It prints forms, brochures, books, posters, bills, labels and more. Schmuger says 30 to 40 percent of the work is four-color. The in-plant also does some “heavy duty” variable data printing on its three Kodak Digimaster 150s, such as county tax bills. In addition to printing those bills, the shop produces PDFs of each one for online viewing. Another big variable data job is voter registration books and voter cards for 1.2 million voters. As Schmuger observes: “We do complicated things.”
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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
