First In-plant Road Show of 2025 Comes to Houston
In-plant managers from all over Texas gathered at Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority’s in-plant this week for the first In-plant Printing and Mailing Association Road Show of the year. Attendees hailed from the University of Texas at Austin, the Harris County Toll Road Authority, Rice University, CHRISTUS Health, and Regions 4 and 7 Education Service Centers.
Louis Ferrel of Houston Metro gives his final presentation as director.
Director Louis Ferrel welcomed his fellow in-plant managers and related the history of Metro Transit Authority Printing Services. This was Ferrel’s last appearance as director. He will retire on Monday. (Read our 2012 profile of his career here.)
Then Bob Barbera of Canon USA gave a presentation about “the Smart Print Room.” He was followed by speakers from Clampitt Paper Co. and General Formulations. A lunch and learn session featured Chad Lang of Absolute Color who talked about how in-plants can retain, grow, and acquire new business.
Attendees of the IPMA Road Show at Houston Metro.
After lunch, managers had a chance to visit the booths set up by 14 exhibitors and talk with them about the solutions they provide. Those exhibitors included Canon USA, Ricoh, Kyocera, Duplo USA, Racami, and Rochester Software Associates.
Then attendees toured the Printing Services operation, which houses two Canon Colorado wide-format printers, a Canon Arizona flatbed, two Canon imagePRESS V1350s and a Canon varioPRINT DP140, among other devices.
This was just the first Road Show of the year planned by IPMA. These events are free to all in-plants. Next up is a Road Show at Western Carolina University, hosted by Al Goranson. Details here.
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.
