The University of Alabama at Birmingham's in-plant is about a month away from packing up and relocating to a new facility. IPG Editor Bob Neubauer visited the in-plant recently and talked with Director Steve Murray about the upcoming move.
As the University of Alabama at Birmingham's in-plant prepares to relocate, IPG tours the plant they are soon to leave behind.
In the days leading up to drupa, which began yesterday in Dusseldorf, Germany, Landa Corp., led by Indigo founder Benny Landa, announced three strategic partnerships with three leading offset press manufacturers. Komori, manroland and Heidelberg will all collaborate on the development of printing presses using Landa's new Nanographic digital printing process.
After opening its 19 halls to the public yesterday, drupa 2012 is in full swing right now in Dusseldorf, Germany. IPG's sister publication, Printing Impressions, has two editors walking the show floor. With 1,850 exhibitors from 56 countries showing their wares, our editors have more than their share of work ahead of them. Here are just a few of the reports that have trickled back to IPG.
Xerox gathered a dozen or so university in-plant managers together recently in Birmingham, Ala., for its annual Higher Education Customer Advisory Council Meeting. Attended by in-plants from Yale, Penn State, RIT, Bucknell, Villanova, University of Louisville, Ithaca College, Citrus College and several others, the meeting featured interesting speakers, excellent discussions and a tour of the University of Alabama-Birmingham’s in-plant.
Ted Bailey’s dedication to printing began at an early age. During his high school years in Ontario, Calif., Bailey, now manager of printing and graphic services at Boise State University, worked for a commercial printer, along with his brother, doing miscellaneous bindery work. After taking some graphic arts classes, he was hooked.
A high school in-plant in Los Angeles recently got a high-profile visitor. Former governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger toured Venice High School’s Super Shop 9 during an open house to celebrate its new $3 million state-of-the-art printing facility.
A high school in-plant in Los Angeles got a high-profile visitor last month. Former governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger toured Venice High School’s Super Shop 9 during an open house to celebrate its new $3 million state-of-the-art printing facility.
Before adding a digital color press in 2010, Donna Cooper Horbelt says her in-plant at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) was not nearly as busy as she wanted it to be. "I was losing color copy business to everybody in town," recalls the director of Auxiliary Enterprises, Printing and Media Services. "Our quality just wasn't good enough."
Richardson Independent School District’s in-plant recently installed a Heidelberg Suprasetter A52 platesetter with MetaDimension RIP.
