Publishers Press

Publishers Press of Shepherdsville, KY, is assuming the printing duties for more than 200 editions of Homes & Land magazine, taking over for The Printing House in Quincy (FL). The shift marks the end of The Printing House, which was once one of Gadsden County’s largest employers. Homes & Land magazines, containing residential properties and acreage for sale, are published in 47 states, the District of Columbia and six provinces in Canada by licensed franchisees.

At its peak, The Printing House had a staff of 250 and printed more than 400 titles.

“It was done because of business reasons,” said

When Jim Beach came to work as a maintenance technician at Publishers Printing in Shepherdsville (KY) 25 years ago, he had a wealth of experience. He was 65 at the time and had already worked at an open pit quicksilver mine for the Bradley Mining Co. of San Francisco, served in the Army until 1945, lived with a family where he learned about tool making, drove a city bus in Columbus for two years and spent 27 years working for Naval Ordnance.

At Publishers...he works three eight-hour days a week and lives in Payneville, driving to work 41 miles each way.

While many magazine and catalog printers have reported some improvement in their sectors since 2009, economic and industry uncertainty still carried its weight into 2010. Reduction in advertising pages, a migration to digital alternatives, and the rising cost of postage and paper have remained key issues.

Bullitt County’s largest private employer is investing a couple of million dollars in new (label printing) equipment because of changes in the publishing industry. From its giant presses in Shepherdsville and Lebanon Junction (KY), Publishers Printing Co. and its 1,400 workers produce about a million and a half copies of magazines each day. The president of the company Nick Simon says magazine printing will remain the core of the company's business but, “It’s not going to be a growing industry, so we are looking for growth in other areas.”

One of those areas is the printing of high-end labels

With the Mark Andy P7 17˝, 10-color web press being installed in October, Publishers will soon be equipped to produce high-quality pressure-sensitive labels for the first time, adding a value-added service to its already extensive set of solutions for printing needs.

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