 | Cedar Graphics Celebrates Earthday
Posted: 4/22/2008
There are more ways than ever to produce green printed materials. Cedar Graphics is leading the way by switching to environmental-friendly inks and solventsusing papers such as, FSC certified and post-consumer waste and recycling scrap materials generated by the printing process |
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| 2007 Printer of the Year
Posted: 3/7/2008
Corridor Business Journal readers have named Cedar Graphics the best commercial printer. Their annual poll recognizes Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Corridor's "best of the best". Results are based on an extensive survey of the journal’s paid subscribers.
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| Hassan Igram is named 2008 Iowa Distinguished Printer of the Year.
Posted: 3/4/2008
The Printing Industries of the Midlands held their 23rd Annual Iowa Banquet and Gallery of Printing Excellence at the Airport Holiday Inn, Des Moines on January 19th. The Iowa Distinguished Printer of the year award was presented to Hassan Igram. |
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| Cedar Graphics wins Gold and Silver at the ADDYs
Posted: 3/4/2008
Cedar Graphics has earned 2 gold ADDYs for the Cedar Graphics 'Be' Campaign and 2008 Wall Calendar. A silver ADDY for the personalized Digital Cover Day planner. In addition to the ADDYs, Cedar Graphics was awarded the Best of Category for the Cedar Graphics 'Be' Campaign. |
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| Stack the Deck open house a huge success!
Posted: 12/10/2007
Fusion Marketing Logistics, a division of Cedar Graphics, Inc., held the first of several educational seminars about integrated marketing, mailing and fulfillment on November 15th. |
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| Cedar Graphics Earns FSC Certification!
Posted: 6/12/2007
At Cedar Graphics we move a lot of paper through our presses, day after day, nearly every day of the year. Where does this paper come from? How is it manufactured? How are the forests, landscape, and environment effected? |
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| Printing Progress - New Technology Leads Japanese Publisher to Hiawatha Company
Posted: 2/14/2007
By George C. Ford
The Cedar Rapids Gazette, February 14, 2007
HIAWATHA — A Japanese publisher has signed an agreement with Cedar Graphics Inc. of Hiawatha to print four of its educational workbooks for children, moving the work from China to Eastern Iowa. |
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| Web-Based Literature Fulfillment & Inventory Management
Posted: 10/3/2006
Many of our clients request fulfillment and inventory management services. We provide a full menu of customer-specific and custom fulfillment services including Warehouse/Inventory Management and Physical and Electronic Literature Fulfillment. |
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| Cedar Graphics New Presses Offer Unparalleled Quality and Speed
Posted: 10/3/2006
After much research and testing, it was decided to purchase two new KBA presses. Press #1 is a 6 color plus coater equipped to print in non paper substrates using UV
drying and coating. The press also prints up to 18,000 sheets per hour, the fastest production sheet fed press in the world. Press #2 is a 10 color perfecter with an in-line coater, extension and roll to sheet feeder, the first of its kind in the United States. |
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| A Confident Cedar Graphics Bets on Technology and Banks on Growth
Posted: 2/16/2007
By Jean-Marie Hershey,
WhatTheyThink.com
February 16, 2007 -- Privately held Cedar Graphics,
located in Hiawatha, Iowa is one of the top commercial printers in the U.S. and among the largest sheetfed printers in the Midwest. The company has pursued a
strategy of growth through acquisition, beginning with
the purchase of Laurance Press Co. in 1979, Stamats
Communications’ in-plant printing operation in 1991, and
the assets of Wagner’s Printers, its main competitor, in
1996. Along the way, the company aggressively sought
to become an early adopter of new and innovative
technologies.
WhatTheyThink spoke with Hassan K. Igram, President and CEO of Cedar Graphics, to plumb the
secrets of his company’s success. |
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| UV Printing Capability
Posted: 2/12/2007
Having the tools and expertise to offer alternative methods to conventional printing is critical in today’s marketplace. Cedar Graphics has responded by adding the equipment to accommodate the growing requirement to print on non-paper substrates such as vinyl, styrene, clear polypropylene, PVC, foils and other materials, |
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| The History of Cedar Graphics
Posted: 10/3/2006
In the late '50s Charlie Igram and his brother-in-law, Bill Hutchings, started a printing company called Igram Press. Both from Cedar Rapids, Charlie and Bill had numerous contacts in the business community and were told there was a need for a high-quality printer to serve a growing market. |
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| The Business Impact of Variable Data Printing
Posted: 11/14/2006
Are your marketing dollars well spent?
As a marketer, you know that mass communications have become largely ineffective as business tools. Bombarded with thousands of marketing messages each day, the public has come to tune out much of what is directed its way. In fact, an estimated 85 percent of advertising goes unnoticed. |
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