On November 4, the fourth annual Digital Printing in Government & Higher Education Forum took place in Washington, D.C., bringing scores of in-plant managers together for a packed day of sessions. It was presented by INTERQUEST, a digital printing market research and consulting firm. Three of the day's four panels featured innovative in-plant managers sharing their success stories.
The first of these was Leslie Rutledge, manager of ReproGraphic Services at San Diego State University, who described how she turned her in-plant around by replacing old offset presses with new HP Indigo and Presstek equipment. This gave customers what they really wanted: affordable, good quality color. By adding design services, decreasing turnaround times and making it very easy for customers do do business with the in-plant, she increased sales and reduced the amount of work going to outside printers.
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.