In business for more than 150 years, the Kansas Division of Printing has been upgrading its equipment over the past few years.

By Bob Neubauer

CHERYL BUXTON is pretty up-front about the fact that some of the equipment in her Topeka, Kan., in-plant is older than the employees who run it.

“As someone said, ‘you’ve got to start getting rid of some of your World War II equipment, Cheryl,’ ” she laughs.

In June, the director of the Division of Printing and Surplus Property for the state of Kansas took this advice to heart and replaced a 30-year-old stitcher with a state-of-the-art Muller Martini Bravo-Plus saddle stitcher with AMRYS (automatic makeready system). This is just the latest of several equipment upgrades for this century-and-a-half-old in-plant, spanning the past couple years.

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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.

Modernizing An Age-old In-plant