Brown Printing

The 27th Printing Impressions/RIT Printing Industry Hall of Fame induction class includes: Carl Gerhardt, chairman, Allegra Network;  Michael Graff, president and CEO, Sandy Alexander; David Harding, president and CEO, HardingPoorman Group; and Volker Petersen, president and CEO, Brown Printing.

PHILADELPHIA—Printing Impressions magazine is pleased to announce its 2012 class of inductees into the Printing Impressions/RIT Printing Industry Hall of Fame. The 27th induction class includes Carl Gerhardt, chairman, Allegra Network, Plymouth, MI; Michael Graff, president and CEO, Sandy Alexander, Clifton, NJ; David Harding, president and CEO, HardingPoorman Group, Indianapolis; Volker Petersen, president and CEO, Brown Printing, Waseca, MN.

Brown Printing will install the 20,000-copies-per-hour binder with 24 hopper positions and full in-line ink jetting and mailing auxiliaries at its facility in Waseca, MN, this spring. “The new Goss binder will further expand the state-of-the-art print finishing capabilities—including advanced targeting, product personalization and co-mailing—that we deliver for catalog and publication customers,” explains Pat Bayer, engineering and IT director at Brown.

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ April 2012 edition, featuring Source One Digital, O'Neil Data Systems and Lew A. Cummings Co.

With a focus on ongoing performance measurement and whole-building improvement, EPA’s Energy Star program provides a proven energy management strategy that has helped Brown Printing achieve important reductions in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Brown Printing has improved its energy performance, saved money and helped to protect the environment for future generations.

HP and Hearst Magazines announced the publishing company’s first venture in fully personalized advertising content in a magazine, representing a new approach to creating more effective and measurable marketing campaigns.

Commercial printing industry news briefs, including items on RR Donnelley, Sandy Alexander, Quad/Graphics, Yurchak Printing, Brown Printing, Modernistic, Transcontinental, WildfireXM, West Linn Paper, Mohawk Fine Papers and Presstek.

There was some good news for magazine publishers this year, as advertising sales levels 
began to rebound. Looking at the catalog segment, there is no evidence of the printed catalog disappearing any time soon. A key focus for publishers and catalogers is how to continue to leverage their multi-channel marketing strategies.

WASECA, MN—Brown Printing has signed a multiyear, multimillion dollar agreement with Future US to supply manufacturing and distribution solutions for 20 of the publisher’s titles and special editions. This agreement expands the existing relationship, maintaining Brown’s position as Future’s top print supplier.

Brown Printing has signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar agreement with Future US to supply manufacturing and distribution solutions for 20 of the publisher’s titles and special editions. This agreement expands the existing relationship, maintaining Brown’s position as Future’s top print supplier.