Baltimore Mavens...of Print - In-plant Impressions

By Bob Neubauer

In-plant Snapshot

City of Baltimore
Digital Document Division

Employees: 30 (Two shifts)
Annual Sales: $3 million
Key Equipment:

• Two Xerox FreeFlow scanners
• Oce TDS6100 wide-format scanner
• Xante PlateMaker 5
• Two Hamada offset presses (one with a T-head)
• One Xerox iGen3
• Two Xerox DocuTech 180HLCs
• One Xerox Nuvera 100 MICR printer
• One Xerox Nuvera 144
• One Xerox Nuvera 288 with Lasermax Roll Systems unwinder/sheeter and inline GBC Fusion Punch II
• Epson Pro 9600 wide-format printer
• HP DesignJet wide-format printer
• Enabling Technologies Juliet Brailler
• Burn Smart CD Duplicators
• Phoenix 40˝ laminator
• Wohlenberg MCS-3 cutter
• Two Challenge EH 3C Paper Drills
• Three Bostitch Bronco stitchers
• Duplo DC 10000S collator
• Duplo DBM-200 booklet maker
• Rosback perfect binder
• Baum 13200 folder

IT STARTED in the parking lot. As he stepped out of his car one day, Greg Cooper, print shop manager for the city of Baltimore's Digital Document Division, happened to run into the city's IT director. They started talking about the checks and bills that IT was printing for the city on its Xerox 92C printers. Cooper told him, flat out, that his in-plant was better positioned to handle this work than IT, whose main focus was supposed to be computers and data.

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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.