Proofing a job for print is one of the last, and most critical, steps in your project. It’s your final chance to take a look at what’s going to be produced, make sure it’s right, and send it to the presses. It’s also your final chance to make sure everything is correct, and [...]

Back in August, Printing Impressions Magazine wrote an article about the differences between small commercial printers versus franchise printers.  Kopytek was interviewed for this article because of the unique perspective we have on this situation.  You see, we started the business back in 1986 as a franchise of a well-known quick service printing and copy [...]

Happy Halloween!
Gavin Drake, Marketing Director for Quark, picked up on our blog post the other day regarding Quark, and he had a correction for us, which we need to explain. In our blog posting, we had included the phrase “come back to Quark” in quotation marks, implying that Quark actually stated these words in [...]

Printers, graphic designers, and advertising agencies received a funny email the other day, inviting us to “come back to Quark” and try version 8. Thousands of us in this field have had a lot of laughs over this one, and here’s why:
Years ago, Quark was the only game in town. If you wanted the best [...]

When times get tough, a lot of people make jokes about it not being a problem for a printer, because they can just print money. Of course, everyone laughs but the printer, because he or she has heard that one (about a million times). It does, however, bring up an interesting topic, and that is, [...]

Using freelancers is a great way for businesses to get professional graphic design work without the expense of a large agency or having a designer on staff. Many of our clients work with wonderful freelancers who bring a wide range of talent and expertise to each project. If you’ve never worked with freelancers, [...]

What happened to all the printing businesses??
The printing business has become so capital-intensive that the banking crisis of the last several weeks affects virtually every manufacturer, including printers. As short-term interest rates rose in response to a tightening credit policy, and banks’ reluctance to lend to each other, any manufacturing business with structured debt [...]

A client recently came to us with a project for a brochure. Nice looking piece. The designer had done a lot of “artistic” techniques to create the effect he was after. But it was now time to print, and we all soon found that those techniques created a lot of trouble with [...]

Quick Printing Magazine had a great write-up on Kopytek in the September, 2008 issue. I’d like to thank Karen Hall of Quick Printing for the nice comments regarding our operation. If you’d like to view the article, here’s the link:
http://www.quickprinting.com/print/Quick-Printing/All-in-a-Days-Work/1$7334
We spent a great deal of time as a company trying to come up [...]

Karen Lowery Hall
Managing Editor
QUICK PRINTING MAGAZINE
September 2008
John Peterson offers living proof that taking your printing business to the next level doesn’t have to mean turning your back on your roots. Peterson is the owner of Kopytek in St. Louis, MO, which he founded as a Kwik Kopy Printing franchise in 1986. Today it is a [...]