Mark McCarty knows something about moving an in-plant. When his shop at Missouri State University relocated in March to a new facility on campus, the experience was all too familiar for the manager of Printing Services.
Springfield, Mo.
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.
Mark McCarty, Printing Services Manager at Missouri State University, needed more automation and reliability in his in-plant's bindery. The Springfield, Mo., shop had gone through some cuts, reducing the staff from five full-time employees to just two full-timers.
After seven years of service, the Epson 10000 at Missouri State University was fading fast. When it reached the point where it would run for only an hour a day, Mark McCarty had enough. Despite the budget crunch, the Printing Services manager was able to get approval for a new Epson Stylus Pro 9900 so the Springfield, Mo., in-plant could once again offer accurate color proofs. The 44?-wide ink-jet printer arrived in February.
In-plants are big in the religious sector. Really big. A couple examples: • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' in-plant in Salt Lake City boasts 400 employees. • The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a 140-employee in-plant in Nampa, Idaho. • Gospel Publishing House, the in-plant for the Assemblies of God and the subject of our cover story, has 93 people in its Springfield, Mo., plant. And then there's the Watchtower Society for the Jehovah's Witnesses. Though it shies away from revealing its employee count, it is vast enough to have bought seven new MAN Roland web presses a
One of the largest in-plants in the country, the Gospel Publishing House is crucial to its parent organization's existence. By Erik Cagle The Gospel Publishing House is arguably one of the most important and influential printing facilities in the in-plant world. How can that be, you ask? What makes the Gospel Publishing House—the printing arm of the General Council of the Assemblies of God—the dean of in-plants? Sure, it ranked a respectable number 22 on the IPG Top 50. But certainly, there are bigger facilities than the 93-employee operation, based in Springfield, Mo., site of the General Council's worldwide headquarters. And though
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