After hitting both Drupa and the IPMA conference in the same week, I’m ready for a break from travel.

By Bob Neubauer

I rented a car in Memphis and raced south in the 95-degree heat, reaching the hotel in Tunica just in time to hop aboard the Tunica Queen riverboat for IPMA’s evening excursion. There I was reunited with dozens of IPMA friends. I hung out with such industry luminaries as John Sarantakos, from the University of Oklahoma, who is IPMA’s new president elect, and Debbie Pavletich, of Briggs & Stratton, the current IPMA president. I talked with Frank Davis, of the University of Washington, about his record-setting new iGen3, as we watched the sun set over the Mississippi River (in its pre-flood days). His “neighbor” Jean-Luc Devis, Washington’s State Printer, told me about the NexPress soon to be delivered to his in-plant. James Mason, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, updated me on the influx of digital technology in his in-plant. There were so many people to talk to, it was like a class reunion.

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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.

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