In-plants Meet in Central PA

On October 10, IPG Editor Bob Neubauer joined 14 in-plant managers on the central Pennsylvania campus of Messiah College for a day of networking and education. The meeting was part of the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association’s series of fall regional meetings taking place all over the country.

In-plant managers from Villanova University, The Hershey Co., Bucknell University, the PA Department of General Services, the University of Virginia and others got a warm welcome from Dwayne Magee, manager of Messiah College Press. He introduced keynote speaker Barbara Stainbrook, Konica Minolta’s senior vice president of Production Print, who gave a presentation detailing new services in-plants should consider offering to add more value. She discussed opportunities in multi-channel marketing, 3D printing, spot UV printing and other ideas.

Then Staci Lasker from New Leaf Paper and Jay Depner from Lindenmeyr detailed New Leaf’s 100 percent recycled paper offerings and how the runnability problems of the past have now been corrected. Once the presentations were over, attendees headed off to Messiah College Press to tour the in-plant, where meeting sponsor Konica Minolta had installed a bizhub Press C1070. Visitors got demonstrations, networked and won door prizes.