After multiple delays, the 65 employees of Purdue University Printing Services have finally moved into their new home, a freshly built 29,000-square-foot structure about a mile south of their previous facility. Not only is it 7,000 square feet larger—with access to existing docks in an adjacent building and a garage for loading delivery vans—the new plant allows workflow advantages undreamed of in the old building. The previous facility, which had housed the in-plant for 36 years, was shaped like a long rectangle, so jobs often had to be moved long distances to reach the next stage in the process. Some employees who needed to communicate
Cheryl Purefoy
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.
Purdue University has just appointed Cheryl Purefoy director of Printing Services. Scheduled to start in January, Purefoy will oversee the 60+ staff who design, produce and mail more than 25,000 production print jobs annually at Purdue. She will also coordinate the in-plant’s relocation into a new 29,000-square-foot facility, with construction to be completed in mid-2007. Purefoy, director of Printing and Mail Services at The University of Akron, fills the position vacated by Sandy Komasinski, who took early voluntary partial retirement in May. Purefoy brings more than 21 years of managerial experience, 15 of which were in the printing industry. She has served on numerous graphic
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
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