New York Printers — Perceptions Cloud Reality

"What I heard was a message recording at their headquarters, saying they were closed due to weather," Ashworth laughs. "They got half an inch of snow and they closed the city."

Close, Concrete Quarters

For those few printers still doing business in New York City, there are obvious hazards and inconveniences, like the lack of elbow room for anything. Brooklyn-based Prestone Printing has an interesting footprint: It faces west and is at the dead end of an east-west road that runs parallel to the Long Island Expressway. A block perpendicular to the road connects the Midtown Tunnel and the Queensborough Bridge. We'll let Prestone President Rob Adler explain: