Horsham, PA

Join Editor Bob Neubauer as he drives around Montgomery County, PA, visiting in-plants and vendor open houses.

Two in-plants have announced job openings for managers. LRP Publications, a Horsham, Pa.-based publisher, is looking for someone with printing/bindery/distribution knowledge to assist the General Manager of its 40-person in-plant. Find out more here: www.ipgonline.com/docs/jobsearch.bsp And in Akron, Ohio, the University of Akron is seeking a new director of Materials Handlings in its Printing Services department, due to the departure of current director Cheryl Purefoy, who will become director of Printing Services at Purdue University in January. The director of Materials Handlings will direct the coordination of the production and workflow through Printing Services and its three campus copy centers, among other

In-plants that work for publishing companies are a varied lot. Some print small community newspapers. Others print the books, magazines and newsletters that their parent companies sell. Still others only handle promotional and support materials. But publishing company in-plants do have one thing in common: tight deadlines. "We're not the only people in the world that sell legal information," notes Ronald Orehowsky, vice president of LRP Publications. If his 34-employee Publishing Support Services division can't print LRP's legal publications quickly, he says, the Horsham, Pa., company will lose business. Deadline pressure is strong even at in-plants that don't print the publications their companies

After collecting experience from all over the Philadelphia printing industry, Ron Orehowsky has used his skills to transform LRP's Publishing Support Services operation. By Bob Neubauer The only reason he's in the printing business today, Ronald Orehowsky explains, is because his four older brothers decided to put him there when he was a kid. "In my family decisions were made by group," recalls Orehowsky, vice president of LRP Publications, in Horsham, Pa. An electrician was his brothers' first career choice for him, but when those classes at Philadelphia's Dobbins Vocational Technical High School were filled, they had to reconsider. A family friend ran