When you don’t attend in-plant conferences, it leaves you feeling isolated, like you’re the only in-plant manager in the world.

By Bob Neubauer

Some managers do get training and travel budgets, but still don’t come to conferences, convinced their shops will fall apart without them. Yet hundreds of other equally busy managers have found a way.

My point is, in an industry as overlooked and misunderstood as this one, conferences help you see that you aren’t in this alone. Managers don’t just come away with information, they get inspiration, they make friends (whom they often rely on later for help), they get to test equipment and ask vendors direct questions. And they have fun. When they get back home, they don’t feel so lonely in their in-plants because now they see they are part of a community, and that others face the same problems they do. What’s more, they’re usually fired up with enthusiasm to make improvements.

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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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