Commercial Printers
205 Griffith Road N5A 6S4 Stratford, ON, Canada

Harvard Printed Catalog Study Catalog mailings have been steadily increasing since 2015. What’s more is that consumers are surprisingly enthusiastic about receiving them response rates from catalogs have increased by 170% from 2004 to 2018.

The Printer Without him, tyrants and humbugs in all countries would have their own way. He is a friend of intelligence and thought, a friend of liberty, of freedom, of law. Indeed, the friend of every man who is a friend of order. Of all inventions, of all discoveries in science and art, of all the great results in the wonderful progress of mechanical energy and skill, the Printer is the only product of civilization necessary to the existence of free men.... Charles Dickens, 1850

Going Paperless Myth Busted In North America, we grow many more trees than we harvest there are 20% more trees in North America today than there were on the first Earth Day in 1970. Paper manufacturers encourage forest sustainability through promoting sustainable forest management policies. By providing a dependable market for responsibly grown fiber, the paper industry encourages landowners to manage their forestland instead of selling it for development or other non-forest... uses. Each year forests in the U.S. and Canada grow significantly more wood than is harvested. In the U.S., average net annual increase in growing-stock trees nationwide is about 26 billion ft.6 In 2015, Canada harvested just over 5.6 billion ft3 of timber, well below the estimated sustainable wood supply level of 7.98 billion ft. Claims like go paperless save trees create a false impression that forests are a finite resource, being destroyed. In truth, North American forests are a renewable resource that is continuously replenished using sustainable forest management.

California Metal Type Foundry Still Alive SAN FRANCISCO Although digital typesetting and offset lithography have largely rendered type casting obsolete, letterpress printing and type founding remains alive at Grabhorn with techniques and equipment a century old. One of perhaps 100 people worldwide who cast type. By the 1980s, nearly all letterpress gear was abandoned when offset printing took over.... Grabhorn’s Institute has kept the tradition alive with art prints, small editions of books, wedding invitations, and posters.The type is sold by the pound to letterpress printers. With letterpress printing, letters and images stand in relief. More crucially, the type casts is used to print limited-edition books in the Grabhorn Institute’s adjacent pressroom on letterpress equipment of a similar vintage. Sold for hundreds to thousands of dollars each, these books form the largest part of the institute’s revenue and sustain it for the future.

Paper Is One of Lowest Greenhouse Gas Emissions The pulp, paper and print industry is one of the lowest contributing industrial sectors to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at only 1% of emissions worldwide, but consumers don’t know it.A recent consumer survey by Two Sides showed a disconnect between consumer perceptions and the facts about the industry’s impact on global GHG emissions.