The Kansas City Star to move from downtown building, shift printing operations (kansascity.com)

Hudson Printing of Salt Lake City, the high-quality commercial printing operation known for superior color reproduction, is now home to a new Landa S10P Nanographic Printing® Press. Installation is in progress. “Quality is paramount around here,” CEO Paul Hudson says. “Our customers will not compromise on color – it’s what we’re known for.” The Landa S10P’s unique, expanded color gamut; better economics; and higher productivity made Hudson’s decision to choose the S10P press a straightforward one. The 7-color Landa S10P will reproduce 96% of Pantone colors. “The S10P checked all of our boxes,” Paul Hudson says. “We needed the speed, the B1 format, and the best color available. Over time it became clear that Landa’s advantages are better by orders of magnitude.”

Worzalla, an employee-owned book printer specializing in printing high-quality children’s books, cookbooks, and hard-cover best sellers, announced that its newest printing press is now fully operational. As part of its Phase III of expansion, Worzalla purchased a Goss Sunday 2000 32-page Double Web Press that provides a broad range of print formats and page configurations. Testing of the new press, which measures nearly 200 feet in length, was a months-long process that is now complete. “The final piece of our Phase III expansion is now finished, and it’s thrilling to see books rolling off the line of this massive new press,” said Jim Fetherston, President and CEO of Worzalla. “Our associates who have been working with the Sunday 2000 press have appreciated the technological advances and increased productivity.” Along with Phase III expansion, Worzalla continues to grow their workforce which will operate the new press and for the day-to-day operations of creating the millions of books ordered by Worzalla’s customers each year.

I’m happy to report the labor issue at Sheridan seems to be turning a corner – though it may be a wide and long corner, and hiring is picking up across our locations. Could it be that the new workforce of today is just as taken to a juicy burger being cooked on the grill by our operations leaders?… I digress. Here are a few of the many ways that Sheridan is igniting the spark in local communities to keep printing an ongoing art: *We invite local graphic arts students to spend a day with us to gain firsthand experience of the graphic art and book manufacturing processes. *We participate in Woodford County Economic Development Authority’s Annual Industry Day in Kentucky by hosting onsite or virtual tours. *We participate in Make it in Manufacturing day in Wisconsin by hosting onsite tours for local high school students. *We work with local colleges to bring in interns from printing programs, graphic arts, and related studies. *We participate in youth apprenticeship with local high school students. *We speak at local vocational and high schools during career preview days. *We speak at local colleges about manufacturing job opportunities. *We participate in area and trade specific job fairs.