A Thoroughbred Operation
Race details are finalized only the day before they take place. That information must first go through Equibase, the racing industry's official information and statistics keeper, before being sent to the in-plant's designers. They then have to lay out the program in time for the first press run at 11:30 a.m. Two hours later the second run starts. Eight-page color covers and four-page color inserts are printed ahead of time on the Komori in the other facility. They are matched up with the inside pages, stitched and delivered to the sellers' stands by 3:30 p.m., as well as to 17 off-track betting sites by day's end. And this happens every day, to the tune of more than 2.5 million programs a year.
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.
