Jim Bender visits our shop

Jim Bender, who is a Republican candidate for the US Senate seat being vacated by Judd Greg, visited our shop last Thursday. He enjoyed seeing a successful New Hampshire business, and had a lot of questions about what we do and how we are weathering the recession.

He then went on to play golf in the Grafton County Republican Golf Tournament at Owl’s Nest in Campton.  I had the opportunity to golf with Jim, and we had a wonderful time. It sounded like he had been too busy with his campaign to play much golf over the last year, and I hope this felt like more of an afternoon off than another campaign event. I tried not to pepper him with questions, and just enjoy a splendid day on the golf course.

I can tell you that Jim is a thoughtful, experienced businessman with a deep desire to contribute to the Nation. I believe he will make a great senator!

Our new sign

Our new flatbed printer is already doing great work! Here’s a new sign we printed for our building. It’s direct printed on both sides 3mm Sintra.

When I think back to the amount of work it was to make our previous sign, which was printed on adhesive vinyl and then applied to sintra, I start to appreciate how much savings there will be for customers with this new technology.

The old sign still looked great, by the way, after eight years.  We just thought that we should be showing off our new capabilities, starting with the sign. People do tease us that we have such a small sign for a company that makes big prints!

Our Building

As you can see, we are sort of in the woods of New Hampshire. Don’t let the weeds fool you, though. Our building is a state-of-the-art large format shop, with 17,500 square feet of clean, modern space. It was designed specifically to do what we do, is completely wired for data and voice, air conditioned for humidity control, and lit with color correct bulbs so we get the colors right for you!

We built it in 1998, and have added on three times since then. Lately we’ve spent a fair amount of time and money beefing up our insulation to make it more energy efficient.

Jacoby and Heidi in front of our printing

Here’s our work being used at a press conference to introduce a wine named for Jacoby Ellsbury of the Red Sox. It raises money for charities that he designates.  He’s shown here with Heidi Watney of NESN.

We print these for Charity Hop, a sports marketing agency that connects athletes, brands and worthy causes.

We can also report that the wine is pretty good!

Book cover Poster

Here’s a photo of author Robert Kozlow with a poster of the cover for his new book New Hampshire – A Photographic Journey.  We do these from time to time for authors going on a book signing tour.

The author sits at a table with the poster behind, and signs books that people buy. Bookstores sell more books, and the author gets publicity.

This particular book cover is near and dear to us, since the photo is taken from the top of Mt. Morgan, one of our favorite hikes. If you are ever in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire,  check out the Morgan and Percival hike. As you can see from the photo, the views of Squam Lake (where On Golden Pond was filmed) are spectacular.

You can’t quite see our shop from the top of Mt. Morgan, but we are in Holderness near the highway exit. It’s a great place to live and work!

Happy Poster Customer

Here’s a happy customer telling us how much she loves her poster!

Fundraising Thermometer Print

Here’s something we do on a regular basis for organizations doing fundraising- a poster of a thermometer to show the progress of the campaign agains the goal. This kind of graphic is usually mounted on foamcore or gatorboard so that it can be stood on an easel during the campaign. The red line advances up the thermometer as giving comes in, and that’s easily done with a magic marker.

We’ve done them for churches, hospitals and theater groups,  just to name a few.  The power of the thermometer in fundraising is that it shows the progress, and prods donors to make their contribution.  The success of measuring and showing the progress of a campaign is well known in fundraising circles.

We have a template for the thermometer, so generating one for your organization is very easy. Give us the words and the goals, and we’ll have one designed for you in a jiffy.

We’ve also done them for outdoors by printing on vinyl.

Pop-Up Booth

When the time comes to replace the graphic panels on your pop-up booth, there is money to be saved.  We can typically do the replacement panels for as much as 40% less than the name brand manufacturer of the booth.

Is there a compromise you must make for that savings? We don’t think so. You get great looking graphics, headers and kickers and edge magnet just like your original panels. We’ll even put the booth together here to be sure everything fits perfectly, and then ship it on to your show.

We use our crystal laminate with a 10 mil backer to give you a nice looking panel that breaks glare and has the weight to hang smoothly. The edges are machine cut to be straight and square.

One actual advantage of our panels is that we use a heat applied laminate that cannot de-laminate or tunnel.  Many manufacturers use cold applied adhesive, and if you roll the panels too tightly, the adhesive will release, ruining the graphics. It is just awful to pull your panels out of the case the night before the show starts, only to find that the graphics have delaminated!  That never happens with our panels.