From the Editor: Part of the Mission
In a time when outsourcing weighs heavy on the minds of most managers, Cathy seems to have found the perfect recipe for peace of mind: incorporating students into the in-plant to support the university's core mission. She currently has 30 student workers, with only two full-time staff members.
All 82 ACUP attendees got a chance to visit the in-plant on the last day of the conference and talk with the students running the equipment and designing printed pieces. With an HP Indigo 5500, a pair of HP Designjet wide-format printers (including a new HP Latex 260), a two-color Heidelberg QuickMaster 42, a Halm envelope press and a PSI digital envelope printer, it was an impressive operation. About 75 jobs a day come through the shop's Web-to-print system, Skoglund said.
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.
