BELLMAWR, NJ—July 21, 2009—Evergreen Printing is doing what many printers aren\’t: aiming to increase sales this year by 15%, in their case, planning to reach $26 million. It\’s headed in the right direction. This heatset and cold web printer of monthly business publications recently won two big newspaper deals.

Evergreen Printing came under new leadership last September when it was purchased by Carmen Pinto. Soon after taking charge of the 95,000-sq.ft. operation, Pinto established a \”sales-first\” culture.

In February, Evergreen began printing the North American edition of London\’s The Guardian Weekly. The U.K.-based newspaper, ranging in size from 48- to 64-pages, is printed on 22-lb. newsprint on one of Evergreen\’s Manugraph DGM 440 coldset presses. Expanded color capabilities offered by the press were key to the deal, and the newspaper now features every page in four-color. 

Commentary by Hank F. Miller Jr.

However, astronomers who were on Iwojima, and also here on Kyushu Island, about 1,350 Km south of Tokyo, and adjacent areas in the Pacific were treated to the spectacular astronomical event as they observed the first total eclipse visible on Japanese soil in 46 years. I watched the whole event here in my garden in Kitakyushu,City,with my wife Keiko and daughter Rachel who is home for her summer vacation from Portland State University located in Portland ,Oregon.