Edison Lithograph & Printing Specialty is Large-format Printing with KBA Presses

By Erik Cagle

Grace in Facing Chaos

Joseph Ostreicher talks like a person who has just washed down a bottle of Five Hour Energy with a six-pack of Red Bull. It comes with the territory; the chief operating officer at Edison Lithograph & Printing has grown accustomed to the level of chaos that normally confronts an emergency room physician.

“Just yesterday, client calls...needed a job in a big rush,” he says. “Sent us the files 9 o’clock in the morning. He okayed the PDF, and by noon we had plates. At 1 o’clock we ran the job. Well, it went out this morning at 8 a.m., and they'll have it in Chicago tomorrow morning.”

In other words, ordered with zero forewarning and delivered in a matter of days. It's not the only story Ostreicher has; they all rattle off like action-packed episodes of “24,” with another satisfied customer at the end instead of a terrorist plot foiled.

Ostreicher is a huge fan of Edison’s employee base and is quick to give them all the credit for the company's success. Anyone can buy a press, but it takes a special group of people to get your money's worth out of the iron.

“The key to success is having happy, satisfied employees who come in every day to do a good job and make the customer happy,” he says. “The culture we have here is something special. And what does that mean to the client? If you have happy employees, the job is perfect and done on time. That is the key to success.

“We have the paper, we have the people. We can react quickly,” he adds. “That’s the answer.”

In the final analysis, Edison  Lithograph & Printing could be  a stalwart commercial, large-format, packaging and trade printer, and let it go at that. Were that the extent of Edison Litho's resumé, however, the company probably would not be in business very long.

Edison Litho is a bit of a rare bird. It has all of these wondrous capabilities—powered by a trio of large-format KBA sheetfed offset presses—and leading positions in the retail, entertainment and packaging sectors. And, if that weren't enough, 40 percent of Edison Litho's brick-and-mortar business constitutes work for the trade. Despite this, or maybe because of it, that isn't enough to keep the multifaceted printer in the lead pack of the New York metro market.

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