From the Editor: Not Too Late to Change
The memo also stated that only print shops that can afford four-color presses will survive. This ignores the fact that the vast majority of the country's printers are small shops that lack such big iron. They survive by watching their costs, providing excellent service and keeping productivity high. And when big jobs dry up, they go after lots of smaller jobs to make up the difference. This in-plant didn't need to buy a $1 million offset press; it could have leased a digital press and recouped that expense within a few years.
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.
