Petoskey News-Review history

The accessibility of printing must also be noted too; in 1938 Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process commonly known as a Xerox, this would build the foundations in which laser printing was built upon.

Annuals of Printing, Blandford 1966

A Chronology of Printing, Praeger, 1969

Printing Presses, University of California Press, 1973 | ebook

The name of the printing press series comes from a company formed by Benny Landa in 1977 to develop the world’s fastest photocopier.

Graphic Printing Services, Inc. grows from three employees in 1988 to 25, moves from a 3,000-square-foot warehouse to a 10,000-square-foot production facility and adds five-color printing capabilities.

In 1993 the world's first digital colour printing press was launched called Indigo.

Steinberg, S. H. Five Hundred Years of Printing, Oak Knoll & The British Library, 1996

Graphic Arts Technical Foundation GATF Press, 1998

A Short History of the Printing Word, Hartley & Marks, 1999

In 2000 the Hewlett Packard Company made a $100m investment in Indigo, which represented 13% of the company's outstanding shares.

After developing its advanced quality management program, Graphic receives ISO 9001:2008 certification covering all of its operational areas.

In November of 2009, Publishers’ Graphics opened its second printing facility in Florence, Kentucky, serving as the In-Plant manufacturing arm for a large international publisher.

As you can see from the ‘UK Printing Facts and Figures presentation’ taken from ‘britishprint.com’ in 2010 the UK was the fifth largest producer of printed products in the world, in a sector worth £14.3 billion, employing 140,000 workers.

A History of the Development of Manual Intaglio Printmaking Processes. ‘t Goy-Houten-London, 2012

Figures also released indicated that year by year sales of The Express & Star and The Shropshire Star fell in the second half of 2013 by 12% and 15% respectively.

Further diversifying its portfolio in 2014, PG acquired Commercial Letter, a direct marketing company also based in St Louis.