From the Editor: Not Too Late to Change
Undoubtedly, the university had its eye on the obscenely low rates some commercial printers are charging these days when it decided that outsourcing was a better deal. The school will be in for a rude shock when the economy rights itself.
One factor working against this in-plant was that it was an offset-only shop; the school had separate copy shops, under different management. Efforts to add digital equipment may have been seen as internal competition and squashed. Anyone out there whose offset and copy shops are managed separately, watch out. In-plants in this situation often fare badly. Merge and eliminate redundancies.
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.
