It was his first job in printing. The sole press operator for a classified ad magazine publisher, Paul Bethel was alone in the pressroom on that fateful day in 1983, running an old five-unit Harris web press.
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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.
Stepping into The World Bank’s bright, spacious Printing & Multimedia Services operation on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., one is immediately struck by how much this in-plant has advanced from its days in the basement of the Bank’s downtown D.C. headquarters.
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Kevin Drake recalls the days at Cornell University when in-plant employees were using an older Harris bookletmaker to create booklets for campus clients. The process was labor-intensive and the machine needed to be tended the whole time it was running, Drake says.
Click the links below to read about the in-plants at: Allan Hancock College, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Avada Hearing Care, HCR ManorCare, Harris County Appraisal District, Brookdale Community College, the Leander Independent School District, and the Valley Stream Central High School District. Allan Hancock College Chippewa Valley Technical College Avada Hearing Care HCR ManorCare Harris County Appraisal District Brookdale Community College Leander Independent School District Valley Stream Central High School District
Only the biggest and busiest in-plants can support web presses. Most in-plants have found ways to incorporate the Web into their operations. But the other kind of web—the web press—remains a rare find in an in-house print shop. Only a few of the very largest in-plants have them. That's because it takes a lot of volume to keep a web press busy—and a lot of people to run one. Several in-plants on the IPG Top 50 have that volume and staff. Chief among them is the Government Printing Office, in Washington, D.C., which operates 10 web presses—eight Hantschos and two Harris models. The main
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