A True Blue Printer
"I was still naive, so I thought I was getting into some kind of art program," he laughs. "I stayed with it after I saw it was really printing. It kind of intrigued me."
After graduating, he got hired by a local classified ad magazine called The Shopper.
"I was the lone pressman for the whole company, and I was just a beginner," he says. That novice status would cost him. (He later learned that the press that took his fingers also claimed digits from two other operators. "That company is no longer in existence," he says.)
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.