Technology & Research

July 11-12, 2011
Los Angeles, California

About Bridge Publications, Inc.

Established in 1981, Bridge Publications, Inc. in Los Angeles, California, is the publisher of the nonfiction works of international best-selling author L. Ron Hubbard. Bridge publishes for the geographic region encompassing North and Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. Bridge's sister organization—New Era Publications ApS in Copenhagen, Denmark—publishes Mr. Hubbard's nonfiction and fiction works for Europe, the United Kingdom, CIS, India and the Middle East.

Today, the new building houses an award-winning and state-of-the-art fully digital in-house book and compact disc production facility, a fully automated distribution center as well as administrative offices to oversee the promotion, marketing and sales of L. Ron Hubbard's nonfiction materials.

July 11, 2011 - Tour The Church of Scientology's Facilities

• Digital Facility
• Introductions
• Brief presentation about the facility
• Digital Printing
• Binding
• Fulfillment
• Offset Facility
• Introductions
• Brief presentation about the facility
• Prepress
• Heidelberg
• Goss
• Wide Format
• Embroidery
• Fulfillment
• Woodshop

July 12, 2011 - Meeting

• Printer Panel Discussion
• Andrew Rawson, Superior Lithographics
• Rick Riegger, Japs-Olson Company
• The development of automation within The Church of Scientology
• Jamie McClintock, The Church of Scientology
• Automation ROI analysis for CIPPI award winners
• Mark Bohan, CIP4 Advisory Board Member
• Presentation by the next host of the Automation Solutions Network
• Brandon Iskey, Printing Industries of America
• Vendor Panel Discussion
• Chris Wood, Technique MIS
• Karl Williamson, GOSS International America
• Jacques Hennig, Agfa Graphics
• Bruce Mews, Heidelberg USA
• Bill Martin, Muller Martini Corp.