Freeport Press: Launching Into the Stratosphere

Freeport Press, located in Ohio, has been in business for 128 years. The company generates $25 million in revenue annually, with 130 people and is a publication and direct mail printing company specializing in magazine printing.

“By implementing the full EFI suite, including management, production planning, PrintFlow dynamic scheduling and Auto-Count, we now have an infrastructure in place to support two to three times our current sales volume, and we plan to hit that mark.”

– David Pilcher, President of Freeport Press

Classic Graphics Takes Success to the Next Level with Upgrade to EFI Monarch Solution and PrintFlow

Classic Graphics was founded in 1983 in Charlotte, N.C., and has steadily grown into a full-service printing, graphics and direct mail company with 160 employees. Classic Graphics provides high-quality offset, digital and wide-format printing and finishing services. Their Opus Direct division offers fulfillment, mailing and distribution services.

“We know we made the right MIS choice with Monarch given the benefits we’ve seen, such as having more accurate information at every step of a job and faster job turn-around and invoicing times.”

– Rick Kraushaar, vice president of operations, Classic Graphics

Modern Litho-Print Co. – Raising the Bar with EFI Monarch Planner and Suite of EFI Solutions

Modern Litho-Print Co. has been in business in Jefferson City, Missouri for over 70 years, serving customers in over 40 states. Owned by parent company Covenant Graphics, Inc., Modern Litho employs over 100 employees and focuses primarily on large format (40") work with full bindery and mailing departments. Sister company Brown Printing, located across town, specializes in digital and small format commercial jobs.

“Monarch Planner has allowed us to do more work without adding more people – it gives us more tools to reduce cost on the front end.”

– Jim Tomblinson, plant superintendent, Modern Litho-Print Co.

Repro India: Expanding Horizons Globally with EFI Solutions

Repro India, Ltd. operates out Mumbai and a new state-of-the-art facility at the offshore export zone on the west coast of India. The company offers design and prepress services, sheetfed and web offset printing, digital printing, postpress and last-mile logistics. Repro India has an annual turnover of US $60 million with more than 600 employees. Repro India, Ltd. produces annual reports, IT manuals, catalogs, and magazines and is one of India’s largest producers of educational books for the global market.

“EFI Monarch is a proven, integrated solution that offers an industry best-practices framework and a wide array of add-on modules that can expand the scope of our automation over time and scale with the business.”

– Baiju Gujarathi, senior vice president, Repro India