A Thoroughbred Operation
Each day of the racing season, the in-plant must produce all 72 to 96 pages of the next day's program and have it on the sellers' stands by 3:30 p.m., so that eager betters can grab copies before they leave the track.
"It's a very quick industry," Coder-Chew says. The need for such fast turnaround is one of the main reasons a prominent racetrack like Santa Anita Park, owned by Magna Entertainment Corp., operates an in-plant. And though other tracks have some digital printing equipment, Santa Anita is unique for having full web and sheetfed printing capabilities.
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.
