On Sunday evening, the57th annual Association of College and University Printers (ACUP+) conference will kick off in Lincoln, Nebraska – three years after the group was supposed to meet there in 2020. The long-awaited gathering will offer attendees a chance to tour one of the largest university in-plants in the country, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Printing Services, home to a six-color, 40˝ Manroland 706 PLV HiPrint perfecter press.
The conference will feature numerous keynotes, educational sessions, and roundtable discussions on a variety of topics of importance to higher-ed and K-12 in-plants, such as wide-format printing, production inkjet, presort mail best practices, marketing your services, environmental sustainability, variable data, and much more. Plus, a vibrant vendor exhibit area will give attendees a chance to see some of the latest technologies.
The opening keynote speaker Desi Payne will loosen up attendees with her talk on the incredible power of laughter. In-plant Impressions Editor Bob Neubauer will kick off the second day of the conference with a keynote presentation on equipment installation trends at higher-ed and K-12 in-plants, taken from new IPI research.
But the best part of the conference will no doubt be the networking. Managers will be eager to talk face-to-face with their peers and share details about their in-plants’ struggles and accomplishments. The networking will start at the opening reception on Sunday, April 2, and continue throughout the event, which will culminate with an awards dinner on April 5.
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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 200 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.






