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Ending Thursday with a fascinating paper mill tour, IPMA 2025 was a vibrant, action-packed event. It brought more than 100 managers to the Pacific Northwest for a week of education, awards and high-energy networking.

On Tuesday, June 10, in a ceremony in Spokane, Washington, the winners of the In-Print 2025 Best of Division and Best of Show awards were revealed for the first time. Find out which in-plants won the top awards.

IPI Editor Bob Neubauer reports from the vendor fair at the IPMA 2025 conference, going on right now in Spokane, Washington.

With a powerful new press featuring LED-UV curing and coating, University of Alabama Birmingham Printing and Mailing Services proves high-volume offset printing still packs a serious punch.

The printing industry lost one of its greatest stewards. Dr. Harvey R. Levenson, age 83, of Pismo Beach, California, has died.

For those seeking to avoid adhesive-backed PVC because of concerns that it's not recyclable and releases harmful chemicals into landfills, there are non-PVC inkjet media and laminates available for vehicle wraps and wall, window, and floor graphics.

At the IPMA conference in Spokane, Washington, Ricoh launched its newest color light-production sheetfed digital printers: the RICOH Pro C5400S and RICOH Pro C5410S.

This week in Cheshire, England, dozens of higher-ed in-plants met in a 17th-century mansion for the 2025 Association of Creative and Print Managers in Education Conference, which melded tech talk with Tudor vibes.

To make Mesa Public Schools’ in-plant sustainable for the future, the shop has expanded its wide-format and apparel services, adding new equipment to enhance those offerings.

As wide-format printing grows at in-plants, installation of those graphics is becoming an important value-added service. We talked with Deb Johnson of Hillsdale College about the great experience she had taking the Architectural Films Certification for Windows, Walls, and Floors from PRINTING United Alliance and how it has benefited her in-plant.