Ohio State Printer Moves Downtown
“When an order comes in from an agency, we can evaluate which [option] is the most cost efficient,” he explains.
Bids for outside jobs are submitted online, opened and certified electronically by the Auditor’s Office, then awarded by Tucker’s print procurement manager.
Jobs produced in-house include training manuals, pamphlets, postcards, calendars, forms, proposals for road contracts and various agency publications. Last year the mainframe printing operation also came under Tucker’s supervision, and that brought in jobs like checks and Medicaid notices. The IBM printers in the mainframe operation are in the process of being replaced by new Océ VP5160 and VP5115 cut-sheet printers, plus four Océ VS7550 continuous-feed printers, Tucker says. The new Océ Prisma front end will allow jobs to be sent to the most appropriate printer, a much-needed new ability, he adds.
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.
