With lots of digital printing and mailing firepower, the Physicians Mutual Mail Processing Center is a in-plant

By Bob Neubauer

Combining internal print and mail operations can place an in-plant in a much more secure position, since mail is often viewed as more mission critical to an organization. Nationally, 60 percent of in-plants have gotten this message and are providing mailing services to their parent organizations, according to IPG research.

In-plant Snapshot

Physicians Mutual
Mail Processing Center
Omaha, Neb.

Employees: 42
Annual Operating Budget: $3.6 million
Facility: 92,000 square feet
Jobs Produced Annually: 45,000+

Key Equipment

Two Xerox DocuColor 8000s with signature bookletmaker
Two Xerox DocuPrint 135 MICR printers
Two Xerox DocuTech 180HLC highlight color printers
Two Xerox 495 continuous feed printers
Two Konica Minolta BizHub 1200s with signature bookletmaker and perfect bind bookletmaker
Two nine-bin Pitney Bowes Flowmaster inserters with Infinity digital meters
Two six-bin Pitney Bowes Intelligent Flowmaster inserters with Infinity digital meters
Two eight-bin Bell & Howell inserters
One six-bin Bell & Howell inserter
Three Bell & Howell continuous feed inline folders
Three GBR folders
Two MBO folders with Böwe 310 cutters
One cut sheet Stahl folder with pile feed input
One Sure-Feed product attaching system with MCS 2˝ array inkjet
One MCS 6˝ array inkjet with inline tabber
Baum folder
Speedo cutter
Two Challenge industrial paper cutters
One Graphic Whizard CreaseMaster

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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.

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