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Olympic Torch-Bearer: George Kallas, Metropolitan Fine Printers, Vancouver BC

Monday, February 15th, 2010

(Editor note: see the update and link at the bottom of this post.) The 2010 Winter Olympic Games started off with a bang on Friday evening, February 12. From the beginning, printing and the 2010 Olympics have been closely linked! In January 2003, George Kallas, President of Metropolitan Fine Printers and printer ...

K/P Corporation Does a “Grand Opening” Right!

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

The red-flocked invitation tied with a gold ribbon arrived on my desk and the pearlescent paper inside hinted at something special. "Roll out the red carpet..." it said. I was invited to the unveiling of K/P Corporation's new 125,000 square foot fulfillment, print, and direct mail facility in Renton, Washington. Off ...

You want to see BIG?

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Earlier this week KBA put out press release that Pazazz Printing (the company that sells %$#@ing print) had installed a "BIG one-of-a-kind KBA 56-inch hybrid UV press." “This is BIG! We are officially seizing the large-format specialty market and differentiating ourselves from the 40-inch sector,” says Warren Werbitt, Pazazz founder and ...

Staying Calm in the Face of the Storm – Part 2

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Rather than let the economic storm get to him, Chuck Stempler, owner and CEO of AlphaGraphics Seattle, is philosophical and practical. His is one of the fastest growing privately owned companies in the state of Washington and one of the top AlphaGraphics franchisees in the country. [caption id="attachment_1018" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Tomek ...

Staying Calm in the Face of the Storm – Part 1

Monday, October 20th, 2008

The stock market charts look like roller coasters and the credit situation is tough. Here in Seattle we've just lost our "home town" bank; Washington Mutual was acquired (rescued from bankruptcy? snatched up at fire sale prices?) by JPMorgan Chase. And our traditional manufacturing base - Boeing - is in ...

Hammer Packaging Thriving on Change

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Dr. Ashok Rao, Dean of RIT's E. Philip Saunders College of Business has a blog post on Rochester-based Hammer Packaging. In his blog post Rao describes some of the challenges the company has faced in the last two decades: Since taking over as president and CEO Jim Hammer has fostered a ...

Promotional Postcards Drive Revenue for Minneapolis Printer

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Minneapolis-based PostcardBuilder was highlighted in yesterday's Star Tribune newspaper "Promotional postcards prove profitable, popular". The company has built a profitable business around offering Web-based design and ordering of a single printed product: the promotional postcard: Kurt Johnson had this promising idea for a new business: a generic website where smaller corporate clients ...