“Everyone is going away from film,” he remarks. The poly plates produced on the Mitsubishi ECO 1630IIIR cost just $2 each, he says—a big savings over what it used to cost to have plates made on the outside. Cost-saving measures like this, as well as the increase in work due to insourcing and keeping jobs in-house, have helped the print shop stay in the black, Ortiz says, after years of losing money.
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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.