Wolfe City, Texas

Elise Hacking Carr is senior production editor for Print & Promo Marketing magazine, and managing editor for PRINTING United Journal.

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.

Ennis-Wolfe City Adds New Capabilities The Wolfe City, Texas-based facility of Ennis, Midlothian, Texas, recently doubled its 17" dual web capacity with the installation of an additional dual web flexo press. The press is expected to substantially shorten delivery times for form/label combinations. The new press will handle material from 20 lb. bond to 20 pt. tag stock and accepts ion deposition and ink-jet variable imaging systems. Delivery is available in roll, sheet or fanfold configurations. In addition, Ennis—Wolfe City has added a five-color, 7.5" web press, ideal for printing narrow width, four-color process labels and tags with UV varnish. The

Top performers in industrial environments, tags also have a softer side. Samples sell. They also inspire. In fact, distributors looking to increase their tag sales can get great ideas for value-added designs, as well as potential new customers, by simply perusing suppliers' sample packets. For instance, materials from Midlothian, Texas-based Ennis' tag and label manufacturing division in Wolfe City, Texas, include products utilized in manufacturing, retail, maintenance, customer service, public safety, property management, and warehousing and shipping, just to name a few. "We even have a distributor who places orders for toe tags used in morgues," said Barbara Woodruff, office manager. "We are one

More Blogs