18 In-plants Honored With ACUP Awards
On May 2, the Association of College and University Printers (ACUP+) honored the winners of its ACUP Awards competition in a ceremony at Lake Tahoe. The gala event capped the association's three-day educational conference, which drew 90 higher-ed in-plant managers.
Bucknell University's Tom Lydon (right) receives the Best of Show award from ACUP President Richard Tussey.
Bucknell University's Publications, Print and Mail operation was the night's big winner, taking home five awards, including three First Place honors. Bucknell also won Best of Show for its wide-format window wrap for the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.
UT Health Houston Auxiliary Enterprises Printing Services was another of the night's top winners, earning three First Place awards, while Connecticut College's print shop won two First Place awards.
The inaugural People's Choice Award, voted on by conference attendees, was presented to the University of Alaska-Anchorage for its Wendy Red Star Exhibit Program.
UTHealth won three First Place ACUP Awards. Here, Donna Horbelt accepts one of them from ACUP President Richard Tussey.
This year's ACUP Hall of Fame honor went to Gina Harris, former in-plant manager for the University of Denver. Laura Sicklesteel, from California State University, San Bernardino, earned the ACUP Achiever award for her tireless work on the ACUP Planning Committee.
Here's a list of all the 2018 ACUP Awards winners:
Impression Awards:
- Accelerated Service: University of New Hampshire
- Collaborative Service: Oregon State University
- Distinctive Service: Eastern Kentucky University
- Green Service: Eastern Kentucky University
Winners of Honorable Mention awards pose during ACUP 2018.
Production Awards:
Decals/Stickers
- First Place: Bucknell University
- Honorable Mention: Central Piedmont Community College
Digital: Multi Piece
- First Place: Arizona State University
- Honorable Mention: Bucknell University
Digital: Multi Page
- First Place: Oregon State University
- Honorable Mention: Eastern Kentucky University
Digital: Single Page
- First Place: Connecticut College
- Honorable Mention: Bucknell University
Graphic Design
- First Place: University of Southern Indiana
- Honorable Mention: University of Alaska Anchorage
Offset: Multi Page
- First Place: UT Health Houston
- Honorable Mention: University of North Texas
Offset: Multi Piece
- First Place: UT Health Houston
- Honorable Mention: University of North Texas
Offset: Single Page
- First Place: UT Health Houston
- Honorable Mention: University of North Texas
Specialty Printed Products
- First Place: Bucknell University
- Honorable Mention: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Variable Data
- First Place: University of Maine
- Honorable Mention: Oregon State University
Wide Format: Adhesive Graphics/Wraps
- First Place: Bucknell University
- Honorable Mention: University of North Carolina-Pembroke
Wide Format: Canvas/Fabric
- First Place: Connecticut College
- Honorable Mention: Yale University
Wide Format: Banners & Displays
- First Place: Gustavus Adolphus College
- Honorable Mention: Arizona State University
Wide Format: Posters
- First Place: Messiah College Press
- Honorable Mention: Connecticut College
Attendees of the ACUP Awards ceremony.
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 more than 170 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.
