When the heat and humidity climb like this, it’s amazing the things they can do to ink and paper. When shipped to us from the mill, our paper is usually wrapped in a protective vapor barrier. In humidity like this, once removed, that paper can absorb moisture from the air and begin to warp and buckle in just a few minutes. We combat this by making sure our printing area is climate controlled; often pretty chilly, too.

A second issue involves ink drying. It can take an extra day or two for ink to adhere properly to paper in these conditions. Our presses are equipped with infra-red dryers that help speed the process. Even in less than ideal conditions, our 34DI 4-color press can print a full color sheet and be ready to print the backside in as little as 15 minutes.

An added bonus: no matter the temperature outside, my office is always very cool and dry : )
Stay cool!

With the help of a quality IT professional, our Contact form is up and rolling!

We are testing the new Contact form.
Fingers crossed...

With summer here (and at full strength), we've been getting a lot of great summer themed or related printing. We're working on producing Baseball Cards for a local little league team. It's great to see the youngsters looking like the pros, and fitting after a great All-Star game last night. Too bad an NL win doesn't look like it will benefit the Brewers come playoff time : (

We hope that everyone had a great weekend. But now it's time to get back to the grind. The new back-up drive should be here either today or tomorrow. Then we can finally get the PHP script and launch the proper contact page. Yipee!
Well, not so much the IT and coding part, but the contact page should be cool!

DPI employees will be out enjoying a three day weekend, and the shop will be closed on Monday! Have a great 4th of July everyone!

Well, a new server side back-up is ordered, and the IT guy should be around shortly thereafter to install a much needed update to the system. Then our Contact page will be a thing of beauty! We'll be able to handle some basic ordering and quotes at first, and then ramp up into more complex online ordering functions!