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For Gordon Ryan, director of design, printing and fulfillment services for the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), a career in printing is as much about communication as it is about ink on paper. For the past 31 years, the native Mainer has split his time almost equally between working face-to-face with customers and working the production floor. In fact, the diversity of his experience—partly a product of chance, partly of design—is what won him the job at NYSBA in the first place.

Interesting hot products for in-plants.

The new 29" Heidelberg XL 75 Anicolor digital offset press is now available in the North American market. The press is ideal for commercial, label, package printing and P-O-P applications. On Jan. 29, PrintMediaCentr hosted an hour-long #PrintChat about short-run offset and Heidelberg’s XL 75 Anicolor press.

Juergen Grimm has been chosen to succeed president Harald Weimer as president of Heidelberg Americas, effective April 1. Grimm most recently led the worldwide Business Area Sheetfed for Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, and in his new role, he will have responsibility for Heidelberg USA, Heidelberg Canada, Heidelberg Mexico and Heidelberg Brazil.

To handle the increasing demand for personalization at Iowa State University, Steve Weigel, director of Printing & Copy Services, needed a digital press with more speed. So in September, he decided to upgrade the in-plant’s Kodak NexPress 2100 to a NexPress SX3300 digital production color press. 

Winter was just settling in at the University of Cincinnati's campus back in January of 2012 when the sneak attack came. Agents from the facilities management (FM) arm of a popular print equipment vendor set up a meeting with the university's financial committee. With no one from the in-plant present, they began dishing out promises of cost savings if the university allowed the FM to handle its printing.

After nine months of financial year 2013/2014, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) remains on track with regard to earnings trend and profitability. After three quarters, the operating result is up significantly on the previous year.

California State Printer Jerry Hill spent Ben Franklin's 308th birthday hosting an open house at the Office of State Publishing (OSP) to promote the in-plant's newly expanded facilities and upgraded capabilities.

The winds of change have blown through the bindery at Gannon University Press in recent years, bringing a variety of new equipment, expanded capabilities and shorter turnaround times for the shop's college clients.

The start of each new semester at Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y., is not only a busy and stressful time for professors, faculty and the more than 25,000 students; the pressure is also on the eight-employee in-plant to produce a variety of classroom materials, marketing pieces and signage for the campus.