Running an in-plant is challenging enough already, but when your shop is not fully staffed, it gets even tougher. We talked with five managers whose in-plants have been unable to fill open positions to find out how they are getting by.
Frank Oliver
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.
Dan Marx, Content Director for Wide-Format Impressions, holds extensive knowledge of the graphic communications industry, resulting from his more than three decades working closely with business owners, equipment and materials developers, and thought leaders.
It’s tough to rely on a punch that can’t handle tabs and constantly misfeeds. That was the case with Frank Oliver’s old punch. “It wasn’t working very well at all,” says Oliver, print shop supervisor for the Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego Board of Cooperative Educational Services. “I was just looking for a better machine that had the simplest approach to punching paper.”
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