In-plant Profiles

IPG visited Briggs & Stratton Graphic Services to check out all the impressive capabilities of this award-winning in-plant.

In this digital age, not everyone views the subject of printing in an optimistic light. But Catherine Ciardi feels she has the perfect surfboard underneath her to navigate and tame the wave of the future.

STEVEN HOWE'S drive has been integral to his professional success at previous jobs and in his current role as manager of Printing Services, Stores and Mail Operations for the city of Cincinnati. But it was his driving that steered him onto the right career path.

Join IPG Editor Bob Neubauer as he drives around central Pennsylvania, dropping in on in-plants along the way.

AS I'VE talked with in-plant managers at conferences over the years, many of them have extended an "if you're ever in the area" invitation for me to visit their shops. Earlier this year it dawned on me that for a quite a few Pennsylvania in-plants I was already "in the area" more or less, and the only thing stopping me from getting out there and visiting them was my own reluctance to leave the office.

A veteran of five different in-plants over the past 33 years, Jean-Luc Devis certainly has an impressive resume. But ask the Washington State Printer what his all-time favorite job was, and he’ll quickly hark back to his childhood and the years he spent as a traveling carnival worker, running game stands.

MARY BOCCHIETTI’S heart sank when she arrived at the Pueblo City School District’s in-plant one July morning in 2009 and saw three feet of muddy water filling the entire shop. A water main had burst during the night, flooding the lower level of the district’s administration building, where the nine-employee Document Services Center (DSC) resided.

For Steve Amitrano, getting a four-color press was always in his long-range plans. For many years, his six-employee in-plant at New Jersey's Burlington County College (BCC) had been running tons of four-color work on its two-color presses, fitting it in between two-color jobs.

AS A high school student in Cedar City, Utah, Doug Maxwell had no particular career path in mind. He got good grades, was on the debate team and enjoyed hanging out with his buddies. So when some of those buddies enrolled in Cedar City High School's graphic arts program, Maxwell figured, why not?

The in-plant serving The Cincinnati Insurance Companies demonstrates a talent for saving, finding and making all the time necessary to reduce costs and satisfy ultra-tight turnaround requirements.