Temp Job Launches Career
“That was a time when, if you were a really good typesetter, you didn’t have to go out and look for a job,” she recalls, fondly. “The jobs came to you, literally.” She was even hired over the phone once, she says.
A Change of Scenery
That all changed in 1991. Her husband, Al, took a job in Des Moines, and the family moved north. For a while she worked part-time in a fabric store, but the lure of typesetting was too strong to ignore. When she saw a help wanted ad for a typesetter who knew the Compugraphic system, she couldn’t resist. She took the part-time job at EMC—just for a few months, she told herself. That was in 1993.
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.
