Moving from California to Iowa is a big change. But in 1988, Lori Fuller was ready for it. "I was kind of tired of California and the fast pace," says Fuller, now manager of Printing Services at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Plus, she admits, her boyfriend hailed from the Hawkeye State. So she put the beach behind her, enrolled at Iowa Western Community College and never looked back. Twenty-five years later, now a full-fledged Midwesterner, Fuller oversees an in-plant staff of 16 at UNMC, one of the nation's leading medical centers.
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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.
Pat Seier has dedicated more than 20 years to making her in-plant an integral part in the success of Kutak Rock, an Omaha-based law firm. by BOB NEUBAUER Patricia Seier never planned on working in the printing industry. She was only looking for a better-paying job when she took a position in the mail room of Kutak Rock, an Omaha, Neb.-based law firm. But after working there just a few years, fate intervened. "Mr. Kutak asked me if I would be interested in heading up their copy center," Seier recalls. "I had absolutely no background in printing." She learned fast. Over the
Some of the largest commercial printers are closing plants and laying off employees. by Erik Cagle After an almost unprecedented stretch of prosperity across the board, the commercial printing industry is starting to feel the pinch of a plodding economy. Several prominent companies have responded with cost reduction measures. • Montreal-based Quebecor World, the world's largest printer, plans to close plants in Illinois, Kentucky and Nebraska, resulting in the loss of more than 1,000 jobs. The company refused to comment on the situation. • Cadmus Communications, in Richmond, Va., is cutting 280 positions, 8 percent of its 3,500-employee work force. • Chicago-based R.R.
Mike Chapman, print manager for Habitat for Humanity International, has moved his in-plant into a new facility that's three times as large. LOOKING FOR work straight out of high school, Mike Chapman consulted a friend whose father was a manager for a local Atlanta print shop. He took an entry-level position there, and immediately knew that he had made the right decision. "Once I got printing in my blood I knew I wanted to be a printer," recalls Chapman, now print manager for Habitat for Humanity International. But in between his first job and his current one, he did a bit of traveling.
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