Small Commercial Printers

Strength in numbers

Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien

Founded in 1981, Einstein Printing (Dallas) is a $1.4 million printer. There's nothing flashy about the nine employees or the mix of digital and offset...

Acquiring minds

Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien

In the 1970s, two quick print titans launched their empires in college towns. Paul Orfalea established his first copy shop near the Santa Barbara campus...

Presses plus a whole lot more

Aug 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By AP staff

You never know what you'll find at Graph Expo. Consider this story: Impressions Printing (Oklahoma City) is a small commercial printer specializing in...

Aim high

Aug 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By AP staff

At first glance, Spectrum Printing (Orlando, FL) might seem like a typical small or midsized printer. The 10-year-old, 24-employee company occupies a...

What are you?

Jul 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Tom Crouser

Quick vs. small commercial and why it matters A friend of mine does $300,000 in annual sales. I'm not a quick printer! he insists. I'm a real printer....

Now playing

Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien

From the brink of bankruptcy to blockbuster success...

By their Bootstraps

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Denise Kapel

Most printers agree that to succeed in this industry, you have to love it. For partners Marya and Brigid Kaye, working low-level printing jobs in their...

Going digital, Staying lithographic

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Patrick Henry

Digital presses computer-controlled, plateless devices using electrostatic toner to image printing forms began to appear in the early 1990s. By then,...

Many sprawling plants trace their roots to a single small-format press. We’ve all heard inspirational tales of Chiefs and Multis clattering away in basements and even some entrepreneurs’ bedrooms. But today, small-format presses face considerable competition from evolving toner-based equipment, as well as increasingly efficient larger format presses. What next for these workhorses? Here are some insights from Hamada, Heidelberg, KBA, Komori, Presstek, Ryobi/xpedx, Sakurai and Screen USA....

Peer 2 Peer NETworking

Dec 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien

Using phpBB, an Open Source bulletin board package, Corey Smith launched www.prepressforum.com in March 2003 to create “a place for people working in the prepress industry to get together and share ideas, help troubleshoot files and talk about technology.”...