Itasca, Illinois

Overland Park, Kansas-based Design Resources; Lenexa, Kansas-based Gill Studios and Fairfield, New Jersey-based Points of Light have applied to participate in the accreditation program developed by the Quality Certification Alliance (QCA), the promotional product industry’s only independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping companies provide safe products.

Booklet Binding and Team Services announced the opening of its new production center in Carol Stream, Ill. The facility is one of the industry's few integrated production centers combining finishing, mailing and packaging services under one roof. With an additional 50 percent capacity, it is also among the largest marketing production, data, distribution and packaging centers in the country offering printers, marketing services agencies and their clients an unprecedented combination of capacity, speed, redundancy and security.

You can run, but you can’t hide. There’s no escaping [cue dramatic music]: The Recession. Had enough of the media’s fear-inducing headlines? Like it or not, this is reality—and not just for the printing industry. But that doesn’t mean suppliers and distributors have to close their eyes and wait for miracles to fall in their laps.