Southern In-plants Get Together in Florida

By Bob Neubauer

On Sunday, several dozen in-plant managers will gather in St. Augustine, Fla., for the 40th annual Southeastern University Printing and Digital Managers Conference (SUPDMC). Attendees will hail from universities all over the southern U.S. as well as from Delaware, Pennsylvania and Ohio. IPG Editor Bob Neubauer will be on hand as well.

John Sarantakos of the University of Oklahoma speaks to last year's SUPDMC attendees.

Taking place at the Casa Monica Hotel, the conference will feature a two-day vendor fair and three days of educational sessions on a variety of topics, such as workflow’s role in business performance, leadership styles and envelope printing. Gary Jones, assistant vice president of Printing Industries of America, will kick off the conference with a presentation on "The Value of Print" in which he will address ways to counter popular myths about printing (e.g., it kills trees, it's less effective than digital communication, etc.)

Former in-plant manager Vic Barkin, now president of Vic Barkin Consulting, LLC, will enlighten attendees with his presentation on setting up a quality management system. A panel of managers will discuss ways to generate additional revenue. And Abbas Badani, director of Penn State University's Multimedia & Print Center, will reprise the presentation he gave at the IPMA conference on the strategic value of managing outsourcing, which his in-plant does so well via a procurement portal.

The conference will wrap up on Wednesday with an excursion to Mac Papers envelope converting facility in Jacksonville and a (sorely needed) visit to Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park.

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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.

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