A Leaner, Meaner State Printer
State Printer Geoff Brandt says the staff shrinkage started around 1998 when the state lifted a mandate requiring all state printing to go to OSP. The workload dropped. Then, as e-filing of taxes came into vogue, the printing of tax forms also took a hit.
When we profiled the in-plant in 2003—just after state budget woes had helped oust the governor and usher in Arnold Schwarzenegger to sort things out—print orders to OSP had dropped 35 percent from the previous year, and staff was down to 416. Times were tough then; the in-plant wasn’t recovering its costs, and it was preparing to downsize.
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.
