From the Editor: Two Views of In-plants
Then there's this aspect: One of these associations is friendlier to us than the other. IPG readers may have noticed that NAPL is mentioned frequently in this magazine (two stories in this issue, in fact); PIA...not so much.
NAPL's major awards program—the Management Plus Awards—has a category set aside for in-plants, and has bestowed top honors and praise on a number of our brethren over the years. (Portland General Electric's Print & Automated Mail Services team and Washington State Printing & Imaging each won Management Plus Awards this year.) NAPL also offers consulting services for in-plants, and Senior Consultant Howie Fenton has helped many in-plants improve their operational and financial performance and stay in business.
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.
