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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Georgia Printco strives to be your #1 industry resource. As a leader in the wholesale market, we thrive on assisting our customers with education on materials, quoting, pre-press, and overall production process. Turn to us for all of your digital print questions.
Have a question? Let us help you find the answer – whether it’s a question relating to a job we are producing or not, or even if its in the planning stagets, we’re here to help you. Superior customer service and knowlege is only a phone call or email away.
-Georgia Printco Customer Service
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Georgia Printco is waiving the artwork pre-press setup fees on all 3/16″ Foam Board and 6mm/3mm PVC through out the entire month of April. This special applies to single item orders as well as multiple items… this means if you place an order with 10 different artwork files, you will get ALL 10 pre-press set-ups for FREE!!! That is a $150 savings off your order!
Be sure to contact your CSR for details at 866-572-0146
Did You Know…. Georgia Printco has the capability to print white ink? What does this mean? This means we can reverse print an image on a clear material, then print a layer of white ink and then print the same image right side up and your end product is a double sided print, that is only printed on one side… Ok, great, but when/where would this be used you might ask… think static cling… restaurants window advertisements that are visible from the inside and outside…. Talk about taking visual advertising to a new level 
Go pro!
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Tags: CEO Sheldon Hurst, Digital Color, double sided banners, Facebook, foam board, Georgia Printco, Grand Format, manufacturing, PMS Colors, pvc, specials, Wholesale Printing, Wide Format
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Welcome, I am Kristi Perron with Georgia Printco and I will be your Social Media Safari tour guide. Over the course of this year I aim to help you lay the foundation in a connected and profitable social networking endeavor. There is a sea of business that is virtually at your disposal, so allow me to give you the tools and resources necessary to reel them in. 
Social media is a low-cost/no-cost avenue for a business to generate networking connections and marketing relations with customers, the local community, and potential customers. You have probably already either heard about the social media hype or have begun to dabble in its vast presence with a twitter, facebook, or linkedin account, but what really are you doing and why are you doing it? Well, the overall goal is to take this networking connection and create value in your online presence that will generate community with those networks that will ultimately result in increased business. To produce this result it is necessary to take an active role in your online community to facilitate the relationships you already have as well as the relationships you wish to gain. Today’s consumer, specifically, 55.6 million adults, which is about 1/3rd of the entire US population use social networks regularly at least once monthly, are the same customers that walk into your business and it is those 55.6 million people that are utilizing the web to find answers to their daily purchase needs. Two-thirds of people in the US looking for local services turn to the internet over other services such as the phone book. It is critical that your business is properly represented with an online medium or you may end up risking a vital connection with your customers.
Over the next few months Georgia Printco and I will be going over the tools you will need to connect with those 55.6 million online customers using online social networking as well as tips on how to enhance the online connections you have already established. These tutorials will include basic connective information for networking sites such as twitter, facebook, and linkedin as well as how to build other interactive web-based solutions such as blogs and website enhancements. I will be your online tour guide, so feel free to ask questions, just don’t feed the animals
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Tags: CEO Sheldon Hurst, Digital Color, digital printing, Facebook, Georgia Printco, Grand Format, grand format printing, innovative print technology, manufacturing, Social Media, Social Networking, specials, VUTEk G5000r, Wholesale Printing
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
New technology gives customers the tools to thrive, not just survive in 2010. Georgia Printco of Lakeland, Georgia is one of the first to own the VUTEk GS5000r digital printer. The GS5000r is the latest advance in grand format printing technology, and will undoubtedly elevate quality standards in the industry.
The revolutionary 5-meter printer provides P-O-P quality at billboard or better speeds, allowing franchisees to target higher volume jobs, produced with unmatched quality. In these economic times, broadening the scope of business solicited can be the difference between survival and flourishing. The award-winning super wide printer has a reputation for speed, high productivity and exceptional color quality that has previously only been reserved for smaller wide-format production. Its high-quality UV-inks are also known for their purity, consistency and durability.
Beginning in December 2010, Georgia Printco owners, Sheldon G. Hurst Jr. and Tom Clarke, in cooperation with VUTEk, began the initial installation and testing in preparation of the early spring unveiling. To complement the new printer, GPC also purchased a brand new 10 foot Colex Fotoba XL320 x,y cutter for ultra-fast, exact finishing on all flexible products.
Georgia Printco is proud to offer this brand new innovative technology, which will revolutionalize its grand format products, while also decreasing overall turn-times. To learn more about this newly acquired technology, you can visit www.efi.com or www.georgiaprintco.com. We have started production on samples as well as initial production trials on a few test projects. We will begin dispersing those (quite impressive) samples at the end of the month.
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Tags: backlit, CEO Sheldon Hurst, digital poster printing, digital printing, Grand Format, grand format printing, innovative print technology, manufacturing, new product, VUTEK, VUTEk G5000r, wholesale banner printing, wholesale poster printing, Wholesale Printing, Wide Format
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Double Sided Pole Banner Form
I’ve spent my fair share of time here at Georgia Printco taking customer artwork and trying to help explain (over the phone) how much space you actually need for a pole banner pocket to keep the banner from getting totally de-funked (technical term)… So I was thinking that I would use this blogging space to do some good for those of you that are interested in having access to our pole-banner cheat sheet… well its actually the form we use to make sure that whatever measurements the client gives us, that it visually matches the measurements on this sheet. I’m going to go step by step and explain what the different measurement points are used to calculate, so that next time you order your double sided pole banners, you can do it like a well-weathered pro 
A. This is your pole diameter which needs to be multiplied by two b/c you have to have enough banner to go up the front as well as the same distance to cover the back… now for those of you thinking about artwork- keep in mind that there is also 1″ for the closing of the pole pocket.
B. This is the LIVE art area in between the poles. It is always easier to keep artwork framed in this area because you don’t have to worry about the back and the front pocket artwork lining up perfectly.
C. This is the area from the VERY tip-top of the pole to the bottom of the pole. We want to make sure that the measurements in A+B= The necessary area for C.
D. Is an inquiry to determine if there needs to be any “give”. There need to be an allotted .5″ give if the poles are stationary… Also, speaking of stationary, you need to make sure to find out if your balls come off or if the pocket has to fit over the ball when being installed. If this is the case, you’ll need to consider A. as the diameter of the ball and not the pole. Yes, the pocket may appear a little large on the pole, but if you can’t screw off the ball, this is the only way you will be able to get the banner on the poles.
I will try to go over the artwork portion of Double-Sided Pole Banners within the next couple weeks… This is another key item that tends to perplex the best of us (in regards to DS – Pole Banners- even the artist get confused on the artwork size every once and a while!) As a closer, I’d like to remind everyone that Georgia Printco has pre-printed FABULOUS Generic Banners that are only $12.50 each!!! 3×6′ + hemmed. I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and I’ll be back on Monday!
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Today has been quite a busy day. We have the company Christmas party coming up and I’ve been organizing our ever-growing list, which is long and time consuming. However, in the end it is SO worth it because Georgia Printco DOES throw the best parties! I have also spent some time getting our “Made in America” design down and infiltrating it into our system. The website won’t have it for a little while, that is another beast I will have to spend some time researching before I try to tackle it. The new design will incorporate our logo as well as some design/typographical elements that really elaborates on how much of the production at Georgia Printco in based in the USA. We want to make sure our clients know that the products they are buying are not only printed in America on our American made machines, but the materials we use are also produced by American companies. This is something you can also take to your clients… the entire cycle of buying and selling American made products is important, especially in this slow economic time. Anyhow, I’ll go more in depth on that subject later. We all know what you’re really wanting to read
For those of you who entered the Georgia Printco drawing for the Santa Standee, your anticipation is about to be over….
Winner Selected for Santa Standee!
This is how it happened- I took the names from all the companies that submitted their information and I printed them out… I then cut them out and folded them all up and placed them in the KFC chicken bucket that I mentioned last week. After a few moments of trying to figure out who should be the honored and official person to select the winning name I happily decided that no one else would be better at the job, then our very own CEO, Sheldon Hurst! So without telling him who was entered I told him not to peek, and to quickly pull out one piece of paper from the bucket… & VWALLA! We had a winner. I would like to congratulate Signs Now-299 in Newington, CT. We will be contacting you sometime this week to go over details. We thank everyone who participated in the drawing and make sure to keep an eye on Georgia Printco… this will be the first contest of many. Make sure to let me know if you have any requests for future give-aways…. I’m all ears!
Thanks Again!
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