Frank Davis

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.

Times are good at the University of Washington. Its Creative Communications operation ended its fiscal year on June 30 $200,000 in the black—the second year in a row that the 90-employee operation has earned a profit.

At University of Washington Creative Communications, the in-plant's implementation of Lean production practices have been critical to its rapid financial turnaround from a $200,000 deficit to a $300,000 profit—a half-a-million-dollar swing from one fiscal year to the next.

Wow. It’s hard to believe I’m just sitting here, with no plans to travel anywhere. And having just completed a whirlwind, world-wide journey (capped with a stormy finish), I’m more than happy to stay put for a while. As you know, I was at Drupa, racing around that massive German trade show to see what the manufacturers have in store for you. I was back barely two days when I was on a plane again, headed for the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association conference in Tunica, Miss. (Germany and Mississippi; there’s a combination you don’t see too often.) I rented a car in

With $14.65 million in annual revenue, University of Washington Publications Services is the largest university in-plant, according to sales. But until August, it was one of the few big in-plants that had neither a digital color press nor computer-to-plate equipment. That just changed. The Seattle-based operation recently added both a Xerox iGen3 and an Agfa :Avalon chemistry-free CTP system. “Now it’s an all-digital workflow,” proclaims Frank Davis, associate director. “Whether it goes to the pressroom or it goes on the iGen, it’s all digital now.” So far the speed and quality improvements are making a huge difference. “Our designers and customer service reps

One secret to making it onto the Top 50: Merge with your mail department. Three-quarters of Top 50 shops have done it. By Vincent De Franco The numbers tell the story: 39 of the in-plants on this year's IPG Top 50 (78 percent) have consolidated with their organizations' mailing departments. As a result, both print and mail have been able to flourish at these in-plants, boosting sales and helping them achieve prestigious Top-50 status. For example, the mail and print departments at the University of Michigan were merged into the same building in May 2003, a move that Steven Lindimore, manager of printing/mailing services,

Here are the winners of last year's In-Print contest. These are not the 2003 winners. That list will appear in the next few weeks on this site. Please check back. For more information on the contest and tips on how to improve your chances of winning next time, visit our In-Print page: http://www.ipgonline.com/doc/in_print.html In-Print 2002 awards were presented during the IPMA 2002 conference in Atlanta last year. Among the big winners this year were: • SAFECO (8 awards) • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (7 awards) • University of Oklahoma (6 awards) • University of Texas Health Science Center (6

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