A Guide to Better Stitching
Allow time for training on the equipment. Evaluate staff and consider additional training to ensure operators have the required skill set to run the machine and live up to quality expectations. The customer should supply “waste” jobs of maximum and minimum product sizes. “Waste” jobs with lap, reverse lap and vacuum opening would allow for more complete operator training. Operators may not learn to fully utilize the equipment if training is performed on a production job with time limits.
—Steven Calov, Heidelberg USA
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.