In-plant Profiles

Service is in Greg Cooper's blood. The self-described "Navy brat" lived up and down the East Coast as a child, as his father moved from ship to ship during his career in the Navy. He followed in his father's footsteps, entering the armed forces by joining the U.S. Air Force in 1989.

Ever Since she took over Kellogg Community College's print shop seven and a half years ago, June Lewis has never had more than one or two student helpers to assist her. But after an equipment overhaul a few years ago at the Battle Creek, Mich., in-plant and a two-year effort to restore confidence in the shop's capabilities, Lewis says her full-time staff is about to double.

Maybe Wayne Guiney should have been a politician. At least that's what some people have said to him, because his people skills have kept the staffs he's managed at multiple in-plants on his side.

Health and Human Services Printing must mobilize at a moment’s notice to serve the citizens of Texas during their time of need.

"I learned how to run the Ludlows and then offset," says Rodney Brown, referring to a stint working on a Ludlow hot metal typesetting system at Kent County Publishing back in May 1965. "It was rigorous to do. I just liked it. Even back then, there was always something new."

Our core business isn't necessarily printing, it's educating students," declares Bill King, Supervisor of Printing and Publishing at Mesa Public Schools. "We ask ourselves, 'How can we shape our operation to mirror the core values of the school district?' "

In August, the Church of Scientology opened a massive, 185,000-square-foot in-plant in Commerce, Calif.

WITH CELEBRITY practitioners like Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its members, Scientology has gotten its share of media attention over the years. The growing church, founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1954, boasts more than 9,000 churches, missions and affiliated groups worldwide.

An artist at heart, Frank Oliver has designed a fast, efficient 
in-plant to serve more than a dozen rural New York school districts.

Braving single-digit temperatures (which he secretly enjoyed), intrepid IPG Editor Bob Neubauer traveled to Minnesota to visit the in-plant at the University of St. Thomas.