California Governor Appoints New State Printer

By Bob Neubauer

Lou Butera

California Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Louis “Lou” Butera, of Lake Oswego, Oregon, to be the new State Printer at the Department of General Services. He will oversee the Office of State Publishing (OSP), the largest state printing operation in the country, which reported revenue of $83 million last year.

Butera succeeds Paul Dixon, who was appointed deputy director of Facilities Management in October 2023, after serving two years as State Printer. Brent Jamison, deputy director of the DGS Interagency Support Division, served as Acting State Printer in the interim.

Butera has worked in the printing industry in various roles, with stints at R.R. Donnelley and Canon Solutions America, where he was a senior account executive. His most recent position was vice president of operations at Direct Marketing Solutions, where he’s worked since 2022. His other roles include senior consultant at MAT & Associates and president of CORE Printer Direct.

Butera earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Printing Management from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo.

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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.