Friday, August 27th, 2010
The picture above was taken not in a printing museum but in the letterpress department of Taylor Corporation’s Tatex subsidiary in Waco, TX. Somewhere in the room is what’s currently believed to be the oldest Heidelberg press still in operation in the U.S. Here’s a closeup of the veteran piece of ...Thursday, August 26th, 2010
“On the whole, I would rather be in Philadelphia.” It’s what W.C. Fields was rumored (falsely) to have chosen as the inscription on his gravestone. For present-day bloggers in the City of Brotherly Love who remember it, the line carries as much irony as any of the late comedian’s celebrated ...Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
A Printing Office, WhatTheyThink’s blog for small to medium printers, is now serving this audience under the auspices of PrintCEO. Patrick Henry, managing editor of A Printing Office, will continue to post news and commentary for this segment at PrintCEO, which contains a complete archive of material previously published at ...Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Since 2003, the Monaghan family has been using a children’s book they created to raise money for the fight against sarcoma—a deadly form of cancer that took the life of the life of Brian J. Monaghan, age 34, in 2002. He and his father, John Monaghan, were co-owners of International ...Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Running a small print services company is tough. Running for high public office against a richer opponent is tougher. Now imagine trying to do both under pressure from a civil lawsuit by an unhappy business partner. That, according to press reports, is the can of worms confronting Dave Westlake, a co-owner ...Friday, August 6th, 2010
Joel Templin, Craig MacLean, and Katie Jain, founding partners, JAQK Cellars; David Dees, national sales manager. Last night, in a tasting at a wine boutique on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the creators of a new line of premium wines from the Napa Valley made their first bid for attention ...Thursday, August 5th, 2010
New York State’s budget was 125 days late when it finally was passed on Tuesday, but it contained something that printers throughout the state considered well worth waiting for: their continued exemption from the sales and use tax on printed and mailed promotional materials. Printing Industries Alliance (PIA) said that ...
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