If you think your winter weather is bad, just talk to Warren Fraser, manager of Printing Services at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In a land where tossed water freezes before it hits the ground, daytime temperatures in the -40s can impact the operation of an in-plant in ways far more serious than the chilled ears you’re complaining about. “When we have the extreme weather that we are now experiencing,” he e-mailed, on a recent balmy day of -41, “these are some of the additional challenges that we have to face.” • Personnel may not make it to work because their vehicle
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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 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.
For Warren Fraser, there's a certain magic about living so far away from the rest of the country. "I can look out my office window and see the Alaska Range," says Fraser, manager of Printing Services at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. "If you want to be [in a place] with clean air and wilderness close at hand, but still live in a city that has a university and has cultural offerings...then there are some advantages
by Bob Neubauer Philadelphia is just plain hot in the summer—a sticky, muggy heat that creeps inside your clothes and plasters them against your skin, making you fidget uncomfortably as you walk down Broad Street, yearning for a decent patch of shade. Needless to say, I'm less than eager to venture outside for lunch. So as I brooded in my fifth floor office one recent August day, eating my ham sandwich and gazing with pity at the pedestrians below, trudging through the 100-degree heat, I couldn't help dreaming of places I'd rather be. Cold places. Places far north of here.
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