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A nice bit of news for printers based in inner cities:

Several small commercial printing houses, including PrintGlobe in Austin, Texas, Hotcards and JakPrints in Cleveland, Ohio, and Panther Graphics in New York, ranked among the 100 fastest-growing inner city businesses in America, according to a recent list compiled by ICIC and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

For the 2010 list, a record number of nominations were received. Winners represent a wide span of geography, operating in 58 c… Continue

Sad news today from Oberlin, Ohio. The World Color Press plant, located in Oberlin, (not far from our home in Cleveland!), is closing. 119 printing employees will be out of a job as of May 21st. The line of reasoning sent down from World Color's head office is simple and one we hear too often lately: the economy is bad, we all have to make tough decisions.

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An MCP is a printer who doesn't just offer a technical service so much as a comprehensive marketing package. This printer probably woke up and smelled the coffee right around the time web-to-print was coming into vogue, and realized that to survive, printers were going to have to do more than just print.

It begins innocently enough, with the printer beginning to offer some direct mail services along with the variable data direct mail printing already in place. After all, who doesn't want direct… Continue

In response to various sources crying the 'death of print,' many bloggers have begun to write positively about the future of the industry. Which is great. No problem there. The thing that's freaking me out, however, is the sudden wash of writing that attempts to insist that nothing is wrong.

To clarify, I don't think print is going anywhere. But the world, and hence, our industry, is changing, and it's completely unproductive and depressing to tackle the problem of change as though it's somethi… Continue

Let's get to know each other better!

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 printers to be tagged. You have to tag the printer who tagged you. Reply here, on my blog, or on your blog!

1 – Hotcards was started by a concert promoter, and maybe that's why we do so much printing for musicians, music venues, and publicat

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