We started as a while-you-wait shop with offset presses and paste-up boards. The equipment changed completely. The willingness to work to your deadline did not.
1987
Thirteen hundred square feet at 391 Center Street. Orders taken, printed on offset presses, and finished the same day. An electroset typewriter and paste-up boards, before scanners or color copies existed.
1989
A Macintosh SE, Aldus PageMaker, and an Apple LaserWriter II. Two years after opening, typesetting moved off the electroset and onto a screen. Every Mac since, through the clone years and the G3s and whatever is on the desks today.
Late 1990s
Thirty-two hundred square feet, a two-color Ryobi press, and a computer-to-plate system. Later came our first Canon digital press, direct mail services, and large format printing.
Online Ordering
Every location ordering from one system, years before the industry had a name for it. We printed and shipped all of it, including to Dublin.
2009
A die-cut, variable-data invitation to an event at our own shop, featuring Frank Romano of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Every recipient got their name on the cards and a personalized URL to register.
Printed in-house on the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP.
2011
A dimensional, variable-data mailer for A.W. Hastings & Co., then the largest Marvin Windows distributor in the Northeast. Best of Category for Variable Data Printing at the PINE Awards of Excellence, followed by a Certificate of Merit in the 2012 Premier Print Awards, judged against more than 2,800 international entries.
2013
A guest experience program we built for restaurants. A QR-linked table tent and floor decal, a survey the guest takes at the table, and an offer for the next visit. Piloted across seven locations with Round Robin LLC, a Red Robin franchise operator. It took two PINE Awards of Excellence, for Special Innovation and for Cross-Media Promotion.
Scan at the table, tell them how it went, get an offer for next time.
December 2020
We stayed open through the shutdown, cleared by the Secretary of State to keep serving essential healthcare clients. That December we moved. A UV flatbed printer and a Colex router and cutter came with it, so rigid substrates, custom shapes, and finishing all happen in one building.
May 2022
When De Rosa Printing was ready to retire, we acquired the company to keep it going. John and members of his team still work here. Average tenure across our shop is over twenty years.
PINE Awards of Excellence winner in 2011, 2013, and 2016. Certificate of Merit, Premier Print Awards, 2012. Hartford Business Journal 40 Under Forty, Class of 2014.
