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Happy New Year from our team to yours! We wish you a year filled with joy, success, and exciting new ventures. In the meantime, indulge in these curious curiosities…

The World’s First New Year’s Eve Celebration: The earliest recorded New Year’s celebration dates back to around 4,000 years ago. The Babylonians were among the first to celebrate, with festivities lasting for 11 days.

The Times Square Ball’s Evolution: The original Times Square ball, dropped in 1907, was made of iron and wood and lit with 100 25-watt light bulbs. Today’s dazzling ball is covered in 2,688 Waterford Crystal triangles and illuminated by 32,000 LEDs.

Superstitions Galore: From eating 12 grapes in Spain to wearing certain colors, many superstitions are associated with bringing good luck in the New Year.

Sorry to anyone that tried to call us this morning. Our power was out until 11 am. We are back up and running!

Ink Works will be closed on Thursday August 28th and Friday August 29th for Thanksgiving. All online orders will be processed on Monday December 2nd. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Ink Works will be closed for Memorial Day May 27th. Have a wonderful weekend!

Honor the Fallen: Print Materials for Remembering This Memorial Day

Flyers with a Long History: Did you know flyers played a key role in spreading the word about early Memorial Day celebrations? We can help you create flyers to promote local events or gatherings.

Memorialize Veterans: We can print high-quality posters honoring veterans and fallen soldiers. Businesses can display these posters to show their respect and gratitude.

Preserve Memories: Our printing services can help families preserve memories of loved ones who served. Photos, letters, or military discharge papers can be scanned and printed into keepsakes or framed displays.

Show respect: Memorial Day is more than just summer cookouts. It’s a day to honor those who gave their all for our country. Ink Works is proud to offer printing services to help you commemorate this important day.

Educational Resources: We can print flyers, brochures, or coloring pages for schools and libraries. These resources can educate children about Memorial Day and inspire them to participate in remembrance activities.

Ink Works will be closed July 3rd and 4th for Independence Day. We will open back up July 5th with our normal hours. Have a wonderful 4th of July!

Due to increase costs we had to update our prices. This could sound like a bad thing but it really lead to a really great thing. New software!

Rather than just update the prices we have invested in software that will make ordering considerably easier. Pricing will reflect exactly what you want and allow you to order exactly what you need. We will do away with basic, standard, and premium. That way we can incorporate all of these into one section. This will a give you the ability to just go to one screen and select out of multiple choices rather than visiting multiple pages.

Also the pricing you see on the website will reflect the prices you see in store. We are still going to offer discounted rates ordering online. This will give you the ability to quote your projects using the website instead of us quoting you for instore prices.

To streamline this process we are going to slowly convert different products over to this new software. It will look very similar to what we have been doing so it wont be a huge change. If something isn’t working let us know and we will take care of it. Leading to less downtime and a better transfer.

In the end I hope this makes ordering easier for you and less work for all of us. If you have any questions or issues we are always looking to improve. Let us know if we can help make things easier or if part of our process is broken. Your responses help us in so many ways.

We look forward to seeing you on our new online ordering!

Industry issues with shortages

Paper Shortages

Our industry is being hit hard with shortages. A lot of our papers are unavailable from suppliers. Some of the mills have closed and some mills have been starting back up. They are working hard to maintain paper supplies as best they can. Because of this some of our common papers are hard to come by. Some items are taking months to receive with no date when they will become available. We are working on replacing or modifying our stock to maintain our turnaround and pricing.

Here is a great article on the paper shortages from WhatTheyTh!nk

View some of the papers we offer on our online store with pictures of our paper.

Toner Shortages

If that is not bad enough our toner supplier has lost two manufacturing facilities and are struggling to keep up with demand. We will be able to keep going with a work around until the issues have been resolved.

Key Takeaways

• If paper is unavailable lets get creative and try a different type of paper. Gloss is not as hard to get right now as a matte.
• Turnaround times have increased. Make sure to place orders in advance to have a greater chance of paper availability.
• Prices will go up. Mills and suppliers are steadily increasing prices while decreasing their offerings. We are doing the best to keep these costs down.