From the Editor: My Oregon Trail
PGE wasn't the only in-plant I visited that day. From Portland, I set off on a 160-mile road trip, touring two more shops along the way before ending up in Corvallis, Ore. There, I met for two days with a dozen university in-plant managers, members of Xerox's Higher Education Advisory Council.
I pulled into the state capital of Salem around 11:00 for a tour of the Oregon State Publishing & Distribution operation. There, I sat with Deputy for Operations Deborah Gallagher and her entire management team and learned all about this impressive "print-to-post" operation. The current 102-employee department, in four locations, is a result of years of hard work, consolidated data centers and print shops from other agencies. Today State Publishing prints and mails countless projects like jury summonses, license applications, DMV renewals, legislative bills, and much more. Half of its jobs contain variable data. Its pickup and delivery shuttles make 551 stops each day around the state.
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.
