Robert C. Tapella is now officially the nation’s 25th Public Printer. Five months after he was nominated in May, the U.S. Senate has confirmed Tapella as Public Printer, and President Bush has signed the commission. Tapella will lead more than 2,200 employees at the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). He succeeds Bruce James in the role. Tapella has been involved in GPO’s transformation into a profitable 21st Century digital operation during the last five years, first as Deputy Chief of Staff and then as Chief of Staff. A 1991 graduate in graphic communications and printing management from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo,
Bruce James
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.
Robert Tapella, current chief of staff of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), is expected to be nominated as the next Public Printer. Upon confirmation, Tapella will replace William Turri, acting Public Printer. Turri has been filling the role since January, following the retirement of Bruce James. Tapella has served as Chief of Staff since 2004, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the executive offices of the GPO, which include: Innovation and New Technology, Public Relations, Congressional Relations, General Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity and the Inspector General. He also directs strategic planning for the GPO and serves as the chief adviser to the Public
MAKING GOVERNMENT information available to the public is the core of GPO’s mission: “Keeping America Informed.” This critically important function sustains one of the keystones of our republic: an informed and enlightened citizenry. No one will dispute the fact that government information is crucial to informed public decision making and the achievement of our national goals. Throughout most of its history, GPO guaranteed public access to government information through printing. Even today we continue to print the majority of our most important documents. But in just the past few years, there have been revolutionary changes in the way the public accesses and uses government
I’m in Rochester, N.Y., as I write this, attending the National Government Publishing Association conference. This being my 11th NGPA conference, I know most of the government in-plant managers here, and have enjoyed catching up with them and finding out about changes in their operations. (I did so much talking the first evening I lost my voice and have been doing a lot of whispering since then.) By holding the conference in Rochester, the headquarters of Kodak, Xerox and the Rochester Institute of Technology, NGPA is taking advantage of the expertise of the Big Three. The group is visiting one of them each day
WASHINGTON--The Government Printing Office celebrated the 70th birthday of the Federal Register last week, serving birthday cake at the government building where the Register has been printed every federal workday since March 14, 1936. The Federal Register chronicles all federal rules and regulations. The first issue held 16 pages; Tuesday’s 70th anniversary edition had 256. The largest single document ever published in the Federal Register was the 6,653-page antitrust settlement between the Justice Department and Microsoft Corp. on May, 3, 2002, according to an Associated Press article. Public Printer Bruce James was recently asked by Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) whether privatization could bring more cost savings
Probably the first thing you'll notice when you look at this year's IPG Top 50 is that, for the first time, there is a new in-plant in the number one slot: Allstate Print Communication Center. Though Allstate reported $10 million in new sales over last year and a staggering $8 million in insourcing business, those aren't the only reasons the 380-employee in-plant jumped into the lead. The Government Printing Office (GPO), which ruled the Top 50 since we started it in 1998, decided not to participate this year. Public Printer Bruce James has been striving to transform GPO into a digital information distribution
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