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IF YOU look back at some of the large in-plants IPG profiled in the ’90s, you’ll quickly observe that nearly all of them have gotten smaller in the intervening years. And busier. Such is the case with one of the largest of them all: the California Office of State Publishing (OSP). When IPG ran a cover story on the colossal Sacramento printer in July of 1995, it had 540 employees. Today it employs 326. Yet revenues have gone from $56 million back then to $65 million today. State Printer Geoff Brandt says the staff shrinkage started around 1998 when the state lifted

When IPG wrote about Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Co. in May of 1994, its in-plant was in the midst of a major forms management initiative. The Columbia, S.C., shop was moving its forms printing from offset presses to a new Xerox DocuTech and had come up with a groundbreaking solution where forms were stored as PostScript files on a server and printed on demand. Upper management was excited about the new DocuTech. The in-plant was looking forward to reducing warehouse inventory. All signs pointed to a successful future for the in-plant. Then came some unexpected curve balls. First, Colonial Life was

WHEN YOU combine a vibrant, amiable group like the Association of College and University Printers (ACUP) with a beautiful setting like Clearwater Beach, Fla., you have the recipe for an excellent event. Last month’s ACUP conference was exactly that. It brought together 130 in-plant managers from all over the world for four days of discussions, educational sessions and fun in the Florida sun.

WHEELING, IL/MOORESTOWN, NJ—Dec. 17, 2007—BÖWE BELL+HOWELL, a leading manufacturer of document processing and postal solutions, and OPEX Corporation, a leading provider of high-speed digital mailroom automation and document image capture solutions, announced on Dec. 14 that the parties have entered into an agreement in principle that provides for the transferring of OPEX’s Postal Technologies division to BÖWE BELL+HOWELL. By adding the OPEX Postal Technologies popular line of mail sorters and software products to its portfolio, BÖWE BELL+HOWELL further strengthens its position as a leading technology supplier to the commercial presort mailing industry. During the transition period, the parties will work closely together to continue

THE LATEST USPS regulations may have inspired visitors to Graph Expo to be more aggressive in their purchasing habits. Across the show floor, mailing equipment vendors reported a lot of interest in their wares. Here’s a look at what was available. BCC Software demonstrated its Mail Manager 2010 mail preparation solution. It is USPS-certified to deliver top encoding and presorting performance, and is fully compliant with all recent Postal Service rate and regulation changes. A new 2010 premium option, the deluxe automation product Job Manager, was demonstrated at the show. It uses watchfolder technology to provide unattended mail processing operations. Böwe Bell + Howell highlighted its

Ted Seward, Vice President of Marketing at BCC Software, a Böwe Bell + Howell company, has noticed in increase in mergers of in-house print and mail functions. “In some cases, the company had a copy shop but no mail functions,” he says. “In others, they may not have had print or copy functionality but they did have mail. In either case, the departments were looking to expand their functionality and found justification for rolling up or combining like functions or previously outsourced functions.” “Whether in-plants are new to mailing or not, if they want to manage the mail better, they should pay attention to the

Böwe Bell + Howell has appointed Roger Spitzig president of the Software Business Solutions (SBS) division. Spitzig joined BBH with the acquisition of Intellitech Innovations in 2004 where he served 15 years as company president. Further developing the Software Business management team, Mike McIntee has been appointed to vice president of business development. McIntee will lead the team in developing new market opportunities, new products and strategic relationships for the expansion of SBS.