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QuarkPromote.com is a retail print design and ordering Website that enables small- to medium-sized businesses to design and order customizable marketing materials online.

The Graphics Communications Coalition for Open Competition announced that, based on productive meetings with key Hewlett Packard (HP) executives, HP has agreed to reconsider aspects of the implementation of its new MarketSplash® program, an online resource for small businesses including marketing materials, products, and design services.

Don Lowe, Chief Executive Officer of Franchise Services, Inc., recently announced a restructuring of the company's executive management team to more effectively lead its print management group of franchise brands, which include Sir Speedy, PIP, Signal Graphics, Copies Now and MultiCopy. The changes were designed to better position the company to manage the growing brands and their expanding suite of printing and marketing services.

Printing Impressions' Upfront Commercial Printing News for November 2008

CONSIDER FOR a moment the impact that the Internet revolution—and prior to that, the desktop publishing movement—has had on copy shops, small commercial and quick printers. In the last 15 years alone, ink-jet and laser printers have become staples of the home office, turning making copies into do-it-yourself projects. On the Web side, Internet specialists such as VistaPrint and PrintingForLess have harvested bread-and-butter elements of commercial printing—business cards, letterhead, brochures, folders and signage—with point-and-click ease. And in this corner, wearing the blue and white trunks, from the fighting city of your home town, are the battle-tested small commercial and quick printers. They are

MISSION VIEJO, CA—July 22, 2008—Franchise Services, Inc. is pleased to announce that more than 200 franchise owners and salespeople from around the world received awards at the annual Sir Speedy and PIP International Convention and Vendor Show at the Westin Diplomat in Fort Lauderdale, FL, July 9-12. Don and Bernadette Sanders of Amarillo, TX, received the Sir Speedy “Franchisee of the Year” award and Frank and Clarice Petrellis of Kissimmee, FL, received the PIP “Franchisee of the Year” award. Jim Corliss, Jerry Hogan and Jose Tafur of Braintree, MA, received the Sir Speedy “Top Volume” award and the Fulner Family of Indianapolis and

BURLINGTON, NJ—June 30, 2008—Canon Business Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. and leading provider of document imaging and office solutions, announced that Sir Speedy of Naperville, Illinois, has selected the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP digital color production press to make its short-run digital printing more efficient and provide the ability to tap new revenue opportunities through expanded services. The imagePRESS C7000VP will also enable Sir Speedy to expand its offerings within the area of variable data printing (VDP). Installed at its new facility in Naperville, Sir Speedy looked to Canon’s imagePRESS C7000VP to help improve its existing short-run printing services. The fast speed, coupled

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Planting Pinwheels for Peace AMBLER, PA—Kathy Davis Studios recently set out to spread the message of world peace. Pinwheels for Peace, a global art therapy project founded by two teachers in Florida, was chosen as the ideal venture to teach local children and raise awareness over important global initiatives. For the past two years, on September 21 (International Day of Peace), pinwheels are assembled around the world and “planted” into the ground as a public statement and art exhibition. In 2006, more than 1 million pinwheels in some 2,300 locations across the globe were displayed. The project was localized when Kathy Davis encouraged 100-plus

SALEM, NH—An employee of a Sir Speedy printing shop here was hospitalized last Tuesday after a car crashed through the front wall of the business. The woman, whose name was not released, was in serious condition with back injuries, according to the Boston Globe. The driver of the car told police she experienced some sort…