Brian Twilley

SALISBURY MD—With the summer tourist season fast approaching, Atlantic & Hastings, an 83-year-old print shop located about 30 minutes outside of Ocean City, is eagerly looking to make use of its newly installed, six-color Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 74 press and Stahl USA B 26 folder. Atlantic & Hastings will use its new Heidelberg equipment to produce the wide range of work it does for the local travel and leisure industry. Whether it's 500 menus for local restaurants or 100,000 brochures for nearby hotels, the commercial printer is now equipped to handle it all. Owner and CEO Brian Twilley says that with the new folder

Brian Twilley is a man on a mission, of sorts. Since acquiring Atlantic & Hastings Printers LLC from his father in 1994, Twilley has been transforming this small printer "in the hinterlands" into a professional powerhouse that can go toe-to-toe with big-city printers. "We're the only printer of our size within 60 miles," notes the CEO of this Salisbury, MD-based printer, "and we've grown the business to the point where we've been bumping heads with shops in the surrounding cities for about two years now." Twilley describes his operation as a half-size sheetfed shop with five-color capability and an in-house bindery that can handle

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