The Dot Fulfillment and Distribution Services division has signed a 6 year lease on 103msf of additional warehouse space to support this growing segment of our business. This brings to 170msf the total space committed to distribution, mailing, inventory management, kitting, pick and pack and web based fulfillment services. These services are key in our efforts to offer clients a one-stop purchasing experience resulting in lower costs.

The Orange County Business Journal has ranked The Dot Printer in the top 5% of all Orange County Printers.

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The Dot Printer has recently added 4/c variable data envelopes to its product line. This new capability is a cost effective way to use high quality 4/c variable data envelopes to increase response rates, insure the envelope is opened and print and address at the same time. Envelope sizes can vary from 3 x 5 to 10 x 13. This addition is all part of a continued effort on the part of The Dot to provide clients with innovative cost saving solutions.

The Dot Printer’s Las Vegas operation continues to expand with the addition of a 26" MBO high speed folder equipped with a gatefold attachment and fugitive glue unit. This operation offers a full range of graphic services including offset litho, 4/c digital, wide format digital, in house letterpress and mailing.

This certification assures we have the GRACoL G7 technology systems in place to achieve accurate repeatable color from press to press and job to job.

• GRACoL Stands for General Recommendations for Applications in Offset Lithography
• G7™ The IDEAlliance Proof-to-Press calibration and press control method. 'G denotes the focus on 'Grays', while '7' refers to the seven colorimetric ink values of Cyan (C),Magenta (M), Yellow (Y), Black (K), Red (M+Y), Green (C+Y) and Blue (C+M). G7 is a trademark of IDEAlliance

As part of our continuing strategy to offer additional services to an expanded client base, The Dot Printer is pleased to announce the acquisition of Page One Digital. Page One, founded in 1985, is a company well known in Orange County as a leading provider of digital services to the advertising and graphic arts community. Their outstanding reputation, large client list, wide format capability, efficient workflow and experienced staff make this a good fit with The Dot Printer.

The combined companies will have more products to offer clients, greater service level capabilities, more digital capacity and additional experienced team members.

In an industry which is experiencing significant change the opportunity to offer more single source services to clients is critical for client productivity, retention and expansion. Already one of California’s largest and most diversified printers, this acquisition gives The Dot Printer an opportunity to meet the growing needs of our valued clients.

As part of our company’s effort to reduce our carbon footprint here are some helpful tips on reducing gasoline consumption.

• Try to drive at a steady speed. Aggressive stops and starts rob you of valuable gas mileage.
• Review your daily and random driving plans on a map, sometimes what we think is the shortest route is not when we visualize the route on a map.
• Remove extra weight from your trunk. The weight of your vehicle is directly related to gas consumption.
• Challenge yourself to use your vehicle more efficiently. Think ahead on how you can eliminate unnecessary trips. Carpool, use the internet, ask your friends and neighbors how you can save each other trips. Try to complete a home repair project with only one trip to the hardware store.
• Know the cost per mile to drive your car. It will surprise you and cause you to drive less.

The Dot printer has been recognized by The PIASC with 3 Best of Category, 2 Awards of Excellence and 1 Certificate of Merit in their Print Excellence Awards competition. This competition is held annually by the PIASC to recognize the many outstanding projects produced by PIASC member firms. Best of Category winners are entered in the PIA/GATF National premier Print Awards held in Chicago in October.

The Dot Printer is pleased to be recognized as number 180 on the list of the 400 leading printing companies in the United States as published by Printing Impressions Magazine. This has been achieved in 28 short years in an industry with over 30,0000 companies. In addition, The Dot Printer is one of the top 25 printing companies in the heavily populated California market. We are grateful to our loyal clients and committed associates for these achievements.

The Dot Printer completes second year as member of The Peer Group. The Peer Group is comprised of 13 leading edge companies representing diversity in location, manufacturing and service capabilities. This organization allows the members to offer clients a national footprint for their marketing and distribution needs. It also provides each member with a Disaster Recovery Program required for mission critical projects. The Peer Group members can be reviewed at http://sol.fetter.us/peer

The Dot Printer completes the building of its 100th custom website for the fast growing web-to-print and print-on-demand market. The Dot Printer IT team is successfully building proprietary custom sites for a wide range of new clients including U.S.Healthworks, Planet Hollywood and Rockstar. These custom sites give clients maximum flexibility and 24/7 access to ordering, reporting and tracking functions.

The Dot Printer is expanding its Las Vegas facility. The Dot Printer recently signed a new long-term lease for an additional 8m sq ft of office and manufacturing space adjacent to our existing space at 365 Pilot Road. This new space will house our growing fulfillment, mailing and distribution business along with continued expansion of our digital and conventional print operations. Las Vegas represents one of the fastest growing print markets in the country and a major area of commitment for our company.

FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification is a way for environmentally conscious companies like The Dot Printer to insure we are using paper produced from forest areas where traditional or civil rights are not violated, where good forest conservation practices are in place, where trees have not been altered genetically, and where forests have not been harvested illegally or converted to non-forest uses. This step is one of many in our company and industry to insure we are minimizing the negative impact of our products and services on the environment.

Agfa Posts Strong Q4: Digital plates and prepress equipment sales up 20%
Agfa-Gevaert today announced its fourth quarter results. Sales amounted to 913 million Euro, as all business groups performed well in the last quarter of the year. Graphics' volumes continued to grow, especially for digital printing plates and prepress equipment. The more pronounced seasonality of the growing IT business is reflected in HealthCare's strong fourth quarter performance. The full year was characterized by steeply increasing raw material costs and difficult trading conditions for HealthCare's film related activities. Agfa's 2005 results were also affected by the unexpected insolvency filing and subsequent liquidation of AgfaPhoto, leading to a 2005 net loss of 19 million Euro. read more...