UTHealth: Adapt and Thrive
Having served as assistant director from 1990 to 2002, Horbelt was quite familiar with the operation. She knew it needed equipment upgrades and better customer service if it was going to survive. The iGen4 was part of that overhaul.
"I told him, you put it in and I'll go find the business," she said. And she did. Today about 6,200 digital jobs a year come through the shop, most of them done on the iGen4. Color impressions have jumped from 1.4 million in fiscal year 2012 to 2.1 million in 2013. This has helped boost the in-plant's revenue from $2.6 million when she arrived up to $3.2 million today—with six fewer employees. She lauds Figari for his behind-the-scenes help.
- People:
- Donna Horbelt
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.
