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You have probably heard of the annual list of North American print-for-pay companies called the  Printing Impressions 300 . [1] The companion piece to this on the print-for-cost side is the  In-Plant Impressions 2023 Largest In-Plants research study. Research like this is hard enough to conduct with commercial print service providers (PSPs) who may not always be willing to share financial and other relevant information publicly. Extracting comparable information from in-plants has its own special challenges. For US and Canadian in-plants though, there is much to be learned from the In-Plant Impressions study.   In-Plant Impressions 2023 Largest In-Plants One of the biggest challenges to gathering the data for this research is that many organizations are unwilling to provide information on internal departments. The result is that some very large US and Canadian in-plants do not appear on the 2023 list. The researchers also report that some in-plants that provided information in the …

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Canon production inkjet customer and thINK member Ed McAllister, Founder and President, Sterling Digital Print, shares insights into his success and highlights the three critical factors that shaped his journey. “What is that saying? There’s no substitute for hard work,” laughed Ed McAllister, Founder & President of Sterling Digital Print, when asked the secret to his success. No doubt Ed did work hard; married with two young children at the time, he recalls many nights sleeping in between his two Canon 6250s. Those days are long gone now, as Sterling celebrates over 16 years in business, with more than 200 employees across three Long Island locations and 60+ million in print volume. “What made my business successful?” Ed ticks off on his fingers: “One, work ethic; two, treating people right; and three, strategic evolution."  Ed's journey into the printing industry started at a young age, working in a printing company in a role that his father, a salesman in the field, helped him …