Graph Expo: A Show for In-plants
Another NexPress user, Karen Meyers, of Michigan Farm Bureau, spent time in the Kodak booth, viewing samples of Dimensional Printing and getting ideas. "We realized we are not using the machine to the extent of its capabilities," she told me.
Meyers also looked closely at collator/stitcher/trimmer products from Duplo, Standard and others, with plans to purchase in 2012. Several others also intended to buy bindery equipment they saw at the show. Weigel's shop at ISU went out for bid on a score/perf machine after inspecting this gear at the show. Similarly, Rachel Bower of Grand Rapids Community College examined cutters from Colter & Peterson and Challenge with the intention of buying one this fiscal year. She also checked out replacements for the shop's tape binder and tabletop laminator. Robert Pettway, of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee's in-plant, was closely inspecting integrated inline envelope wraps from Bell + Howell and Pitney Bowes, as well as document tracking and online proofing solutions.
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.
