A Cuyahoga Comeback
“It’s an offset process that runs like a copier,” Sebes explains.
Plus, he reasoned, the DI would greatly improve the quality of short-run four-color work, such as brochures and letterhead.
The in-plant obtained the DI press with a 60-month lease-to-buy arrangement, estimating a four-year return on investment. This proved accurate, Sebes says. As expected, the quality of the printing caught the attention of county employees and this soon translated into more work, including jobs that were previously outsourced. Today, he estimates, 40 percent of the in-plant’s work is four-color, and this doesn’t include digital jobs run on the Canon imageRUNNER 5180.
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.