Rich Bundsgaard

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.

Getting approval for a Xerox iGen3 wasn’t the hard part. Nor was the installation of the digital color press. “The education [of customers] is what I’m finding will be our greatest challenge,” reveals Rich Bundsgaard, director of Print Mail Copy Solutions at the University of Arkansas. Specifically, he added, the 50-employee in-plant has to show customers how high-quality color work from the iGen3 can help them do their jobs better. Since its installation just before Christmas, the iGen3 has been churning out on-demand color books and full-color course packs for professors who see the benefits (and cost effectiveness) of digital color. To keep the digital

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