Small Shops Serve God in Big Ways
Near Chicago, a congregation of nuns started an in-plant in 2004 for similar reasons. The Congregation of St. Joseph, in La Grange, Ill., began with an HP Indigo 1000, later replacing it with an HP Indigo 5000, to print greeting cards and posters, the sale of which has helped support the order.
“We decided we had to find something that was going to make money for us,” says Sr. Judy Sikorski, operations manager for St. Joseph Press, and the daughter of a Linotype operator. Starting an in-plant was also a way to keep some of the older sisters employed. Many of them, like her, have retired from teaching and are looking for a way they can still contribute.
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.
