QR Codes: Become the Expert
In the future, Seaman anticipates getting software to allow the in-plant to create variable QR codes to take students to a personalized URL.
"I would say, within six months we're going to be seriously going in that direction," he says.
Be Ready to Say 'Yes'
Scores of other universities are using QR codes as well. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has put them on the backs of business cards and on performing arts posters. Printing Services Director Catherine Chambers says customers approached her with these jobs and asked if the in-plant could handle them, and because she had already researched the technology, she was able to say yes.
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.
