Colorado Printing Co

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The Colorado Printing Co., announced the acquisition of Crested Butte Printing Company effective on December 1.
Crested Butte Printing, in business in Crested Butte since 1985 serves the Crested Butte, Gunnison, and Gunnison River Valley area. The new entity will operate at the same address in Crested Butte under the name Crested Butte/CPC Solutions. Steve Mabry and Chris Hanna, former owners of Crested Butte Printing, will continue to serve their customers. According to Mabry, by teaming up with Colorado Printing Co, we can give our customers the same personal service that they are used to, but with a greatly expanded menu of products and capabilities. Those capabilities include access to high volume, four color printing, and digitally driven, variable data products. In addition, we will introduce a whole new concept to our customers of integrating print with the internet.
According to Mike Antonucci, president of Colorado Printing, the acquisition of Crested Butte Printing will give us a new market foothold in the Gunnison Valley. We look forward to working with Steve, Chris and their customers. Our goal is always to bring the most sophisticated marketing techniques to our customers. In todays world that is not just print, but much more. Our services range from creative consultation, design, copy writing, email blasts, purls and gurls. We try to combine all the technologies to get the most marketing bang for each customer.
Colorado Printing, with its production facility located at 2800 Printers Way in Grand Junction, serves the intermountain west with sales offices in Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Durango, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The company specializes in high quality, four color commercial printing and integrated marketing solutions that combine all the benefits of print with the advantages of the internet. It has been in business since 1947. Operating out of a 140,000 square foot plant in Grand Junction, its production resources include 8 color and 10 color presses, full prepress, bindery and mailing capabilities.

August 14, 2009IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership organization that has been a leader in information technology and publishing since 1966. It represents agencies, publishers, printers, materials suppliers and solution providers, who have been trained to use the G7 Proof-to-Print Process and can produce printing using the G7 Method.

The G7 Method specifies the components of an image that define a similar visual appearance to the human eye. It defines a colormetric definition for gray balance in the midtones, image weight and image contrast from the highlights to the shadows which are the factors that determine the visual appearance of an image.

New Mailing Rules effective March 29, 2009. On March 29, 2009, The USPS is implementing new address placement requirements for "flat" size mail. Thereason for these new rules and standardsis to ensure faster service and delivery times with the USPS.

The new placement standards apply to all "flat" Periodicals, Standard Mail, and Package Services mailed at presort, carrier route, and automation prices.
They do NOT apply to First-Class Mail!

Colorado Printing Company has earned Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody certification (SW-COC-003367) from the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood program. This certification reflects a growing trend in the paper and printing industry of companies making more environmentally and socially responsible supply chain decisions.

Our commitment to sustainable initiatives has been and will continue to be very strong and will continue to play and integral part in our daily operations.
FSC is the global standard-setter in responsible forest management. Chain-of-Custody certification guarantees that wood that comes from certified, responsibly managed forestlands is tracked throughout the supply chain, from the forest to the consumer. Conscientious consumers can look for the FSC logo on wood products to know they are supporting forest management that protects biodiversity and supports local communities.

About 40 percent of all commercially traded timber globally is used to produce paper, according to the FSC. And paper consumption is expected to grow by about 50 percent in the next few years. The US is the biggest market for paper products globally, producing 90 million tons of paper and consuming 100 million tons of paper each year, according to the FSC.
The paper and printing industry have made big strides recently in focusing on responsible supply chain decisions. In the past few years, several hundred pulp providers, mills, merchants and printers globally have obtained FSC certification. Companies such as Nordstrom, Inc.; Williams-Sonoma, Inc.; and Limited Brands (the parent company of Victoria's Secret) have all begun using FSC-certified paper in their catalogs and other printed materials. Also, the Rainforest Alliance worked with Scholastic Inc. on using FSC-certified paper in the initial US printing of the final Harry Potter book. At 22 million pounds, it was the largest single purchase of FSC-certified paper to date.

FSC certification ensures that forestry operations meet a set of environmental, social and economic criteria covering compliance with laws and international treaties, land-use and indigenous peoples' rights, community relations, biodiversity conservation and maintenance of high conservation value forests, among other things.

The area of FSC-certified forestlands has nearly doubled in the past three years to a total of 247,105,381 acres to date. This growth has opened up a burgeoning supply of certified wood products including lumber, paper, furniture and decking from responsibly managed forests. Increasing consumer interest in FSC-certified products ensures that forest operations have economic incentives to manage their lands responsibly.
Nearly 98% of all paper purchased by Colorado Printing Company is FSC certified. These papers contain 10% to 100% recycled fiber and are manufactured right here in the USA.
The Rainforest Alliance, an international nonprofit conservation organization, is the world's leading certifier of forestlands to the FSC standards. To date, the organization has certified 112,128,926 acres of forestland. The Rainforest Alliance works with businesses in making more responsible choices by using market forces to protect our natural resources and support workers and local communities.
Visit FSC on the web www.FSC.org

Of course, environmental concerns are not the only variable in choosing a printing partner. CPC has a host of other award-winning features that will make your printing projects cost effective, polished and efficient.
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