While many printers are watching their volumes head south, things are a little different for Arkansas State University Printing Services. “Our volume just keeps growing, and the amount of work and the revenue we generate for the university keeps growing,” says David Maloch, assistant director of the nine-employee in-plant. “So they like us over here.”
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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.
The end of a lease is always a good time for reassessment. So when it came time to replace the Xerox DocuTech 6180 at University of Arkansas PMC Solutions, the 45-employee print and mail operation also turned its eyes on its six-year-old iGen3.
University of Arkansas Little Rock Printing Services recently attained Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) chain-of-custody certification, becoming the first state printing agency in Arkansas to get certified. Director Chuck Werninger felt it was important to demonstrate responsible stewardship, both to prospective students and to the community.
At the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, the decision to switch from offset to digital was a practical one. "We had a 20x28˝ Sakurai offset press and some smaller Hamadas, but we couldn’t find any press operators,” remarks Jon Flaxman, director of Printing Services for the Little Rock, Ark., school. “So we just made the decision, we are going to go totally digital.” In October, the four-employee in-plant installed a new Kodak NexPress S2500 digital color press with a fifth imaging station. So far it has exceeded Flaxman’s hopes. “We definitely now get more consistent color than we’ve ever had,” he contends.
A year or so ago, Printing Services at Arkansas State University installed a Heidelberg ProSetter 74 computer-to-plate system. To find out how it has helped and what the shop has learned since then, we got in touch with Director David Maloch. IPG: David, how has the new gear improved your business? Maloch: It’s all about speed. We have much greater speed in getting proofs ready and in getting plates to presses. We’ve eliminated film, masking sheets, and other materials, so we have faster makereadies on presses. The Heidelberg gives us easier duplications for four-up, six-up, eight-up, etc. work, and imposition of multipage jobs is a snap.
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