From the Editor: Urban Slowdown
Municipalities don’t typically feel the real impact of a slowdown for a year or two, several managers informed me. The smart ones, though, are already preparing. In Los Angeles, Director of Publishing Services Michael Leighton notes that, in tough times, in-plants must try even harder to bring outsourced work back in-house. His in-plant recently worked with the Office of Finance to redesign a tax booklet so it could be produced in-house, saving the city $200,000.
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.
