Ronald Orehowsky

In-plants that work for publishing companies are a varied lot. Some print small community newspapers. Others print the books, magazines and newsletters that their parent companies sell. Still others only handle promotional and support materials. But publishing company in-plants do have one thing in common: tight deadlines. "We're not the only people in the world that sell legal information," notes Ronald Orehowsky, vice president of LRP Publications. If his 34-employee Publishing Support Services division can't print LRP's legal publications quickly, he says, the Horsham, Pa., company will lose business. Deadline pressure is strong even at in-plants that don't print the publications their companies

After collecting experience from all over the Philadelphia printing industry, Ron Orehowsky has used his skills to transform LRP's Publishing Support Services operation. By Bob Neubauer The only reason he's in the printing business today, Ronald Orehowsky explains, is because his four older brothers decided to put him there when he was a kid. "In my family decisions were made by group," recalls Orehowsky, vice president of LRP Publications, in Horsham, Pa. An electrician was his brothers' first career choice for him, but when those classes at Philadelphia's Dobbins Vocational Technical High School were filled, they had to reconsider. A family friend ran