IPMA Goes Full Throttle in Milwaukee
The managers also gave examples of new services they are offering, such as window graphics at Houston ISD, garment printing at UC-Davis and e-books at BYU.
Outsourcing Success
No in-plant conference is complete without a discussion of outsourcing. Mike Schrader, of Brunswick Corp. related an outsourcing success story at his in-plant. When he proposed eliminating offset and adding digital equipment in 2008, he learned that his company was already looking into outsourcing all printing to a single supplier. He got himself on the team that was evaluating proposals, and got permission to have his shop bid on the work as well. In the end, his in-plant was cheaper for most smaller-quantity projects. Even after a facilities management company performed a full evaluation of his shop, the FM's recommendations were the same as those he had proposed, only at a higher cost.
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.
