Friday Flashback: ACUP 2008 Conference
In-plant Impressions Editor Bob Neubauer has been shooting and producing videos of in-plant events for more than 17 years. They now provide a nostalgic record of in-plant conferences past and a look at managers who have since left the industry – along with younger versions of managers still in the business.
This video of the 2008 Association of College and University Printers conference in Clearwater, Florida, captures the enthusiasm of that event, which brought more than 125 managers together, including some from Australia and the U.K. Attendees didn’t know it, but this would be the last ACUP conference in two years, after the recession would force the cancellation of ACUP 2009.
This lively conference, the last for many of ACUP’s “old guard,” featured a boat cruise, a botanical garden visit, and plenty of educational sessions, covering topics like merging print and mail, justifying equipment acquisition, customers service, web submission software, and more.
Watch this archival video for a look back in time at the in-plant industry as it was 16 years ago.
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.
