GPO Facing Formidable Challenges
"GPO doesn't inform those printers now anyway," he says. "Private bid services help keep those people informed."
Not so, says Sherman.
"We post the jobs on the Web," he notes. "We also notify people off our bid list." That list, he says, has more than 16,000 printers on it.
Despite all that's going on, executive agency customers are the ones who will determine what actually happens. Sherman says the interagency council of executive branch customers that meets regularly to advise the Public Printer has discussed OMB's proposal.
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.
