It's been a very active Autumn for in-plants. After all the September in-plant gatherings, like the ones at PRINT 13 and then the SUPDMC conference, October brought even more meetings for managers.
Fort Worth, Texas
In six locations across the country, in-plants have been gathering over the past month for one-day networking forums. Coordinated by the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association, the regional meetings were designed to bring in-plants together with others in their areas while spreading the word about the benefits IPMA can bring to them.
“Wow” seems to be the reaction when Glen Bradford tells his customers that his in-plant can now produce envelopes in the same day. Bradford, manager of Texas Christian University’s Printing & Copying/Frog Prints Copy Center in Fort Worth, Texas, credits this quick turnaround to the new Intoprint DP 100 digital envelope printing system, installed last December.
IN-PLANT MANAGERS from 19 states and Canada gathered last month at the historic Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas, for the combined Southeastern University Printing and Digital Managers Conference (SUPDMC) and Texas Association of College and University Printers (TACUP) conference. While billed as a regional conference, the event’s theme, “Making the Tough Decisions,” attracted representatives from as far away as California, Colorado and British Columbia. The conference was organized and hosted by the University of Texas at Arlington’s Maverick Print and Mail department, led by Director Steve Burdette and Assistant Director Mary R. Burdette. The 65 attendees from 40 different schools were treated to a dynamic
Texas Christian University's in-plant has opened a new copy center after years of studies, surveys and cost-justification reports. by CHRIS BAUER STUDENTS ARRIVING for the fall semester at Texas Christian University, home of the Horned Frogs, found a new facility in the lower level of the Student Center. A much needed 800-square-foot copy center, dubbed Frog Prints, was added over the summer hiatus—just down the hall from the newly remodeled, 3,500-square-foot print shop. "TCU did not have a retail copy center where students or staff could get copying services," reports Glen Bradford, manager of Printing Services in Fort Worth, Texas. "With Frog Prints, the