Robert Hulett

Insourcing can save your in-plant. Find out how from managers who have done it. In the early '90s Liz Messner noticed an alarming trend: In-plants everywhere were being shut down. Her own in-plant at the Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania Service Co. (HAPSCO) could well have been the next victim. Fortunately, though, HAPSCO had decided a few years before to let her Harrisburg, Pa., in-plant start insourcing printing from outside organizations. That decision, says Messner, has kept the in-plant in business. "Had we not gone outside and brought work in...we would not be here today," declares Messner, senior director of

For Bob Hulett, printing has been a lifelong interest. He has turned that interest into a successful career with Beckman Coulter. FOUR YEARS of high school graphic arts classes paved the way for Robert Hulett's future career in the printing industry. And though subsequent studies at California's Fullerton College increased his knowledge of print and prepress technology, Hulett already knew what he wanted to be—a printer. "It was an interest way back in high school," he recalls. "Graphics really appealed to me." Hulett knew that his father's company, Beckman Coulter, had an in-plant print shop, so when he got out of school he applied

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