Eight more in-plants recently earned Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) chain-of-custody certification through the InGreen group certification program for in-plants. They include Colgate University, Villanova University, Bayer Corp. and Yale University.
Steven Rigby
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.
At age 14, Steven Rigby became an Eagle Scout, the highest achievement in the Boy Scouts of America program. As he completed the final leap to the top of the Scouting ranks, he also took his first step toward a top-notch career in printing.
Winner of the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association’s coveted Management Award, Washington State University Publishing was one of the first in-plants to receive FSC chain-of-custody certification. The Pullman, Wash.-based shop was among the first to add a digital color press when it installed an HP Indigo 3050 five years ago. But one bit of ’90s technology the 58-employee in-plant still held onto was its Heidelberg Hercules imagesetter.
TO REDUCE the environmental impact of their operations, in-plants are reexamining the way they do things. As a result, soy-based inks, water-soluble solvents and recycled/FSC-certified paper are becoming commonplace. In-plants are switching to chemistry-free CTP, promoting duplexing and initiating recycling programs—all in the name of improving their image and doing the right thing for the environment.
A school located in the southeastern part of the Evergreen State might be expected to maintain a green state of mind. So, it's not surprising that the Washington State University Publishing office has established its own sustainability program, which promotes responsible usage of paper and other printing resources.
Employing students part-time has allowed many college and university in-plants to prosper, helping them achieve Top 50 status in the process By Erik Cagle Not all in-plants are created equal. If they were, then we wouldn't have the IPG Top 50. One look at that list, though, reveals that college and university in-plants have a special advantage: their ability to cull a large number of part-time employees from their student populations. Many of them owe their lofty status on the Top 50 to employing students; frankly, some in-plants would not have cracked the list without them. Students are cheap labor; they're intelligent and bring
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