Church of Scientology Opens New In-plant
"Our decision to bring sheetfed printing in house was based on cost, quality control and our desire to gain the capability to produce up to 50 language versions without paying the exorbitant makeready and changeover costs associated with outsourcing," stresses McClintock.
Not its First In-plant
Also, he notes, the church has had some great experience running an in-plant. In 2006 its Bridge Publications division started up a digital book manufacturing plant to produce copies of Hubbard's books in 52 languages. Housing two Xerox iGen3 digital presses, eight DocuPrint 1050s, four HP Indigo 5000s, a new roll-fed HP Indigo W7200 twin engine digital press and much more, the in-plant has been turning out 20,000 hard-cover books (up to 450 pages in length) every two or three days. In 2009, this operation was expanded into a 276,000-square-foot facility in Los Angeles.
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.