QG Printing Corp history

In 1988, it launched Quad/Tech Europe and broke ground on its High Tech Centre in Sussex.

In 1989 Quadracci acquired W. R. Bean & Son of Thomaston, Georgia, established CB Graphics (now Quad/Sheetfed), and began offering customers in-house mailing list management services initially under the name of Quad/List Management, then later Quad/Data Services.

Quad/Graphics had anticipated the rapid growth in this so-called computer-to-plate technology as early as 1990 when it bought Orbis Graphic Arts facility in Anaheim, California, later renamed Anaheim Imaging.

By 1991, Quad/Graphics had become the ninth largest printer in the United States and was operating 43 web offset presses, five gravure presses, 38 saddle stitchers, and 11 perfect binders.

These plants complemented Quebecor's existing Mexico-based book printing operation, Graficas Monte Alban , which it had acquired in 1992.

By 1993 Quad/Graphics was printing more than 400 publications and catalogs (100 million magazines a month) and sales had spiraled to more than $703 million, representing ten straight years of double-digit growth.

By 1994, Quad/Graphics' Quad/Imaging division had performed its first live direct-digital-to-plate run, and in 1994-95 Quad/Imaging satellites were operating in Boston, Minneapolis, and New York.

In 1996 it complemented its magazine/catalog niche by adding hardcover book binding to its capabilities and in November of that year it began printing its first multicolor hardcover and softcover books.

In 1997 it followed this with an agreement to print catalogs through Brazilian printer Plural Editora e Grafica and pursued ventures with printing firms in China and India.

Also in 1998, Quebecor and the Aguirre group purchased a majority interest in Impreandes Presencia in Bogotá, Colombia (now Quad-Bogotá), a leading book and Bible printer.

In 1999, the Quebecor/Aguirre partnership purchased a Buenos Aires printing plant operated by newspaper and magazine publisher Editorial Perfil.

Joel Quadracci, Harry’s younger son, took over as president and CEO in 2006 during the 35th anniversary of our company’s founding.

In July 2009, the company changed its name to World Color Press Inc. and rebranding itself in the marketplace as Worldcolor.

As a result of the game-changing Worldcolor acquisition, Quad became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange on July 6, 2010.

Transcontinental's three plants officially joined the Quad family on September 8, 2011.