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Warren Werbitt, CEO, Pazazz Printing – His Journey Through Reorganization

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Printers have been struggling and over the last few months a number have been closed or sold. It's a hard process when your business is on the edge. PrintCEO reported on Pazazz Printing's file to restructure just about two months ago. In just over 9 weeks, the company has reorganized ...

Worried About Print Being Eliminated? Print Trumps Here…

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

An amazing video about a disappearing skill - sign painting. Now that super wide printers can cover something as wide as 5 meters, the old fashioned sign painter is going the way of typesetters. This is a beautiful - and sad - tribute to a dying craft. Click on the image below and ...

Update: Nationwide Graphics Acquires Assets of Premier Graphics

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Friday, March 19, 2010, Nationwide Graphics acquired the assets of Premier Graphics in a "uniform commercial code sale” from GE Capital. Nationwide Graphics provided day-to-day management of Premier Graphic's operations under a management contract since early 2002. The purchase price was not disclosed. "Premier Graphics was a company we managed and ...

End of Year One of the Seattle P-I Online Only

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

This time last year, the Seattle Post Intelligencer – fondly called the P-I here in Seattle – made the move from paper to pixels. So how has it gone? Seattlepi.com, the online successor to the print version of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, celebrated its first year with music, free cupcakes ...

Jim Duffy talks about closing Alonzo Printing

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

In mid-January, Alonzo Printing closed its doors after more than a year of struggling financially. Jim Duffy, owner of Alonzo Printing for 22 years, shared his thoughts on the closure and had some advice for others in the same situation. WTT: Alonzo Printing was not just a flagship green printing company, ...

Premier Print Holdings, Operating as Premier Graphics, in Liquidation

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Premier Graphics is being sold under a “uniform commercial code sale” by GE Capital, which is foreclosing on the business and liquidating the assets. Premier Graphics consists of five print facilities: The Argus Press (Niles, IL), The Jones Company (Chattanooga, TN), McQuiddy Classic Press (Nashville, TN), Saint Clair Press (Indianapolis, ...

Mohawk: From Paper to Software

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

. . At PMA 2010, the trade event for “everything photo,” Mohawk Fine Papers announced the acquisition of LabPrints, a developer of workflow software and services for professional photographers and photo labs. “Wait,” you say, “a paper company bought a software company?” In search of clarification, I spoke to Bart Robinson, Mohawk's ...