IF ALL your in-plant does is print, it’s vulnerable. Outsourcing firms are scouring the market, looking for “print shops” to prey on. On the other hand, in-plants that provide numerous value-added non-print services are in a much stronger position when their organizations start throwing around the “O” word. In a recent IPG survey, in-plants listed a number of value-added services they have recently started providing. To name just a few: • Document scanning • Copying engineering drawings • CD/DVD production • Name tag engraving • Trophies, medals • Garment printing • Braille embossing • Envelope manufacturing • Laminating • Fulfillment
Terry Oakes
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.
In Australia and Canada, in-plant associations are hard at work educating their members and giving them the tools they need to thrive. By Bob Neubauer In-plants are certainly not just a U.S. phenomenon. Though the International Publishing Management Association (meeting this month in suburban Chicago) and the Association of College and University Printers (story on page 14) are probably the world's most successful in-plant groups, other country's in-plants have also formed associations. Two of these groups are NIPPA, (the National In-plant Print & Publishing Association), which draws members from Australia and New Zealand, and CUPMAC (the College and University Print Management Association of
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