Seattle Bindery Newsletter: Issue #34. Special Earthquake Edition!


1. Where were you when the ground shook? I was on the production floor. We all hesitated about 6 nanoseconds, then dashed for the door. I wasn’t even close to being the first one out. Boy, can our workers move! We sent everyone home since we didn’t have power for four hours, but the traffic was so horrendous because the traffic lights were out, people said a normal 20 commute turned into a 2.5-hour nightmare. Now that the rain is back, I’m discovering a few other cracks ‘n leaks consequences to our temblor. So what’s your story? I’m offering Starbucks coupons for the funniest, scariest, most heartwarming or heroic account of you or your staff’s experience during the big one. Email or fax your tale; we’ll share it with everyone in future issues of this newsletter.

2. Print buyers A-OK. A piece on www.graphicresourcecenter.com in the Graphic Resource Center’s News Room cited some interesting stats from a monthly report entitled “Print Buyer’s Pulse,” sponsored by WhatTheyThink, a self-described portal for the printing and graphic arts community. Print buyers seemingly are optimistic about their levels of spending in the next six months: 40% said they expect to spend more than in the last six months, 7% said they’d spend less, and a whopping 53% said they anticipate spending to remain equal to what it’s been. That’s welcome news amid all the talk about the Internet grabbing marketing dollars away from print.

3. Taxing time again. Yep, it’s time for my annual reminder to plan ahead for the upcoming tax crunch. For those of you looking for extra guidance, there are two resources I highly recommend and which are available online at www.barnesandnoble.com. Both are by Ernst and Young and they are entitled “Ernst and Young’s Personal Financial Planning Guide: Take Control of Your Future and Unlock the Door to Financial Security” and “The Ernst and Young Tax Guide 2001.”

4. We’re stuck on Kleenstick. Here’s another reminder that Seattle Bindery not only offers Kleenstick, but can apply it in nearly any shape and size to sheet sizes up to 44 inches. We’ve done some pretty darned interesting jobs with this two-sided peel and stick tape, including one job that required 2.5 million inches of this utilitarian product. Give me a call, if you’d like to see some samples of how others have used Kleenstick to great effect.  

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