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What's New October, 2006 The Lenawee Chamber for Economic Development honored Spectrum Printers president Andy van Staveren with its 2006 Business Leadership Award. The prestigious award recognizes exemplary entrepreneurs who support the community, overcome challenges, and employ fewer that 50 people. The award celebration also marked the 20th birthday of the employee-owned company. “What I’m really proud of in the organization,” says van Staveren of the company’s achievements, “ is how the staff has embraced the changes that affect not only our company, but our customers as well.” 
January, 2006 We have purchased and brought online a Hamada 248 two color press. The new press is a true two color and gives big press capability in a small format of 13" x 18". November, 2005 We recently accepted delivery of a new GMC delivery van. The old van was getting a bit tired after 450,000 miles! The new van joins our cube truck to give us excellent regional delivery capability for our customers. April, 2005 Spectrum Printers, Inc. received five print quality awards from the Detroit Club of Printing House Crafts at their 16th annual awards program. The Gallery of Superb Printing Competition is held annually at International Association of Printing House Craftsman clubs throughout the world to recognize those printers that excel at their craft. Spectrum Printers received two gold, and three bronze awards, as well as a "Best in Category" for the Digital category. The works submitted for judging included designs from Daniel Brian & Associates for Henry Ford Health System, University of Michigan Marketing Communications, University of Michigan Geological Department, United Bank & Trust and designs by C3 Network for Hino Motors. "It is always rewarding to be recognized by our industry peers,"said Spectrum president, Andy van Staveren. This year was especially gratifying because a piece produced on our digital press was awarded 'Best in Class'! To see the innovations of digital printing technology, the imagination of our customers and the expertise of our employees come together and produce these results is a wonderful achievement for us." February, 2004 Spectrum Printers Inc. has received a Gold award in the 28th annual International Gallery of Superb Printing held by the International Association of Printing House Craftsman. Over 3000 submissions from 9 countries were judged in Minneapolis, MN, representing the work of over 1100 print professionals from around the world. The award-winning piece was a self-promotional booklet produced for Daniel Brian & Associates (DB&A), an advertising and media production firm located in Rochester, MI. "We are pleased to celebrate the achievements of our customers and employees", said Andy van Staveren, Spectrum's president. We are equally pleased with the confidence DB & A had in our company to produce this unique piece with demanding production standards." January, 2004 Spectrum Printers received two Crystal Awards of Excellence from the Toledo Chapter of The Association for Women in Communications. The awards were presented to Spectrum Printers and John MacNaughton of The Adrian Dominican Sisters. John's creative design on the 2001-2002 Camilla Madden Charitable Trust Annual Report and Voices in Mission and Ministry newsletter showcases Spectrum's capabilities and skilled staff. The Crystal Award honors professionals in communications from southeastern Michigan and northwest Ohio for excellence in design, writing, public relations, photography, advertising, interactive media and broadcasting. December, 2003 We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who visit our website, our customers and our employees for a great year filled with many challenges. With the holidays upon us, we would like to take a moment to wish you a very happy holiday season and a safe and prosperous new year. A special thanks goes out to all the wonderful men and women serving us in troubled spots around the world. Life has been a challenge for them and especially for their families. One of those serving is our own pressman, SSGT Dan Johns, US Army, who is currently in Cuba on the Inspector General's staff. To his wife, Denise, and family, our thoughts and prayers are with you. We miss Dan, too. Happy Holidays to all! February, 2003 Please join Spectrum Printers in welcoming Four New Additions! June, 2002 Spectrum Printers Installs Xeikon Digital Color Press
Spectrum Printers announces the purchase and installation of a Xeikon DCP 32-D digital color press. We will use this press to enhance our business in short run and variable data printing applications. With a Xeikon press on our floor we can offer you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it. For example, we have a customer with a brochure running 25,000 copies on an offset press for the end of the month. But they need only 500 of that same brochure by the end of the week. Now we can print that part of the job to seamlessly match the longer offset run, and easily in time to meet their deadlines. We demand speed and high quality in all that we produce. The Xeikon DCP 32-D is capable of printing 70 pages per minute. The One-Pass Duplex feature, which enables both sides to be printed at the same time, delivers printing speeds unparalleled in digital printing. The web fed configuration gives the company the format flexibility it requires to offer a variety of booklet and brochure sizes and shapes as well as unlimited possibilities for the image length of a printing job. We are very excited about all the value added features that this digital press has to offer. Installing a Xeikon press significantly expands our commercial printing business and proves to be an ideal addition. February, 2002 We recently completed a major upgrade in our server and network. We have added a new server with 200 gigabytes of storage for our prepress department. This brings our total online server storage to 315 gigabytes. We also added a new tape backup unit which allows much faster backups to our servers and also better capacity on each tape. We keep copies of all your completed projects on tape for at least 5 years. Our new tape system has a capacity of 3 terabytes (one-thousand gigabytes). Last of all we added a gigabit network switch, allowing much faster transfer speeds between our servers and G-4 Mac's & PC's in prepress. What does this mean to you? Much more efficient movement of files so we spend more time working on projects and less time waiting on the network. September 11, 2001
July 12, 2001 Fifty years ago, Bob Bagdon began his printing career in the Pentagon building while serving the United States Air Force. This year Bob will retire from Spectrum Printers, having impacted the company with his many years of knowledge. June 10, 2001 We recently installed a new MBO B120 pile feed folder. This machine will fold a sheet as small as 4" x 6" and as large as 20" x 28". It has four fold plates in both the parallel and the 8 page units. This machine's specialty is small precise folds and will run at extremely high speeds. The new MBO along with our Stahl continuous feed folder will allow us to handle a wider range of folds and paper stocks. Our thanks to the staff in our finishing department for doing the research and picking out the new machine! May 19, 2001 The Adrian Arbor of Gleaner Life Insurance recognized Patti Belote on May 3rd, 2001 for her outstanding community service efforts. Her genuine love for people has led her to participate in many service functions, such as the Special Olympics, Goodwill Industries, and many more. We congratulate Patti on her outstanding community service award, and thank her for her outstanding efforts here at Spectrum Printers as well. April 21, 2001 The Detroit Club of Printing House Craftmen has awarded Spectrum Printers a Gold and a Merit award in their 2001 Gallery of Superb Printing. A big Thank-You to everyone at Spectrum for their fine work! January 19, 2001 We recently outfitted our sales representatives and delivery drivers with Nextel cellular phones. These phones give us more than just cell phone capability. They have a paging service that allows us to send text messages to each person. They also have the traditional paging that allows a phone number to be input from a touch-tone phone. Our internal voice mail system is also connected to each sales rep's cell phone. So you can leave a voice mail for your sales rep here at Spectrum, and it automatically is forwarded to their cell phone. The phones also have two-way radio capability for sales reps and drivers to communicate with each other instantly. These services allow us to respond to your needs quickly and efficiently. December 26, 2000 We recently installed new carpet in our office and prepress areas. Our office staff drew up and implemented modified floor plans of our customer service and accounting areas. While the moving was a lot of work, the new carpet and layout make our work areas look great! A big "thanks" to all of the Spectrum staff that helped with this project. November 22, 2000 We have added an exciting feature to our website. For some time, some of our customers have used a link on our web site that allows them to check the status of their projects and inventory. Our web site is connected to our internal information system. Each customer has a unique name and password to view only their information. We have added a special link that will allow everyone to check demonstration job and inventory information. From our home page click on Tracking Demo. November 8, 2000 Spectrum recently took delivery of a Creo-Scitex Iris 4Print. This machine will output a 21" x 28" (4up) color digital proof. It's improved color matching capability will make your proofs even more accurate. Put together with our existing Scitex Brisque, and 4Press imagesetter, the new Iris will enhance our workflow and improve the quality of your next project. The new Iris replaces our older 12" x 18" (2up) machine, which has served us well. September 29, 2000 Thank you Spectrum customers!!!
August, 2000 was a record breaking sales month for us. We set
an all time high, breaking the old record by 19%! We want to
thank you for having confidence in us to produce your projects
for you. We would also like to thank our staff for their excellent
work and long hours spent responding to your needs. Thank-you
again! August 28, 2000 We are pleased to announce Patti Belote has
been named Office and Customer Service Manager. Patti formerly
served at Spectrum, for over twelve years, as an Account Representative
in the Lenawee County area. Utilizing the skills learned while
in this area will allow Patti to serve all of Spectrum's customers.
Please feel free to call her to say welcome back to the Spectrum
team! April 27, 2000 We are pleased to announce the arrival of a new staff member. Alexia Nicole Lickley was born on Monday, April 24 at 8:19 a.m. She weighs 6lbs, 8oz. Mom (Heidi) and daughter are both doing well (although they have not yet reported to work). April 14, 2000 Spectrum recently donated an Optronics Colorgetter drum scanner to the Lenawee Voc-Tec Graphic Design and Printing program. Vo-Tec serves all twelve county high schools and offers technical programs that are not offered at their home schools. Vo-tec also offers extensive adult education training. The donated machine scans color prints and transparencies to output high resolution color separations. The scanner will be used to help train students to better prepare them for careers in the Graphic Arts Industry. February 25, 2000 Spectrum Printers, Inc is pleased to announce a promotion: Diane Ketola has been promoted to Press and Bindery Supervisor. Diane was the plant manager’s assistant previously and has been with the company since 1993. December 3, 1999 Spectrum Printers took delivery
of a new Saber S-115 paper cutter on Monday, November 29, 1999.
Several of our bindery employees had the opportunity to check
out the Saber cutter at the Print Expo in Chicago last month
and were impressed with its capabilities and some of the automated
features. The new cutter features a built in computer, complete
with hard drive and floppy disk for saving and archiving jobs
that repeat frequently. The Saber also contains a label feature
for repetitive cutting that automates the process and allows
"hands off" multiple cuts, freeing the operator to
stack and remove the cut pieces or prepare another lift for cutting.
It will provide new efficiencies and productivity in our bindery. October 15, 1999 We now have a new page that will answer your prepress questions. If you missed the clickable scrolling banner on the main page, you can access the Prepress Helpful Hints page from the Support page. Online estimates are now possible with our Request for Estimate form! If you would like an estimate for a printing job, simply fill out the form and hit the "Submit" button. This will send the form to us and a Spectrum representative will contact you for more details. Check out the updates on our Support Page. In addition to the links to some neat places, we have added a Glossary of Printing Terms and some Frequently Asked Questions. And, if you have questions to which you'd like answers, use the contacts on the Support page and we'll get you an answer. Questions that are universal and could benefit others, we'll add to our FAQ section. At Spectrum we do regular mailings to our customers and businesses in our primary service area. If you would like to receive our mailings, no matter where you are, send your name, company and address to Rick Nadeau and we'll get you on the list. July 9, 1999 This past weekend, Spectrum Printers completed the final step to insure our plant will be fully operational on January 1, 2000. The latest version of PSI, our production software, was installed over the 4th of July holiday and is fully operational. Last winter we completed a plantwide check of all workstations and the equipment specific computers that run the ink system on our presses, film output devices and scanners. Even our security system has passed the Y2K test. If you have questions regarding Y2K compliance as it relates to your design software or hardware, please don't hesitate to give us a call. Spectrum Printers is always on the lookout for qualified team members. Currently we have openings in Customer Service and Bindery. See "Employment" on the "Contact Us" page and email us your resume. If you have pressroom or digital prepress experience, don't be shy...we'd like to hear from you as well. Spectrum recently took delivery of our new Fuji C-440 Color drum scanner, replacing the Colorgetter we have been using (it is available for purchase). We have also installed our new UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner with Binuscan software. We are using - exclusively - our Scitex 4Press to run our film. This precision device imposes pages "four-up" and punched to match the plates that go on our printing presses. Our registration has never been better. We've added a digital camera to our pre-press equipment profile and are well on our way to completing a small digital photography studio. This will meet the needs of some of our customers who need product shots to clip and place in such printed material as ads or catalogs. Our administrative office has just completed a total upgrade to Pentium III 450Mhz computers and NT 4.0. This allows the latest version of our production software (PSI) to run much faster and access customer records with greater ease. Pre-press is in the process of upgrading all of their computers (again!!) and the first of the new furiously fast Macintosh G3's is online. |
