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Our latest News, Projects, and more…

2013 Calendar Contest Winners!

This years calendar photo contest was a lot of fun for employees and clients alike! We had almost one hundred entries, and many stunning examples of photographic passion and skill. Ultimately our voters had to decide on just thirteen images and although there were some clear favorites, a large handful just barely missed the cut….

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Experiencing Print

It’s about time for a change, not only for Olympus Press but for the entire print industry. The industry’s biggest change in the past 10 years has been the Green movement and major steps have been made to be working with Sustainable Resources.  This has been with the help of all of our Paper mills…

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Custom Product Packaging

To help market the launch of Thornton Place, a combination community/retail housing complex, we manufactured this really cool die-cut box which contained promotional materials for prospective community members. Unique print projects like this are handled with experience and care at Olympus Press….

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Print is Back: Student Newspaper Returns to Campus

This news story about young people seeing the value of print comes from right here in our own back yard. Seattle Central Community College was without a print newspaper for 4 years. The break, which ended a 40 year publication history of the colleges independently run “New City Collegian”, was ended last week. Our favorite…

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Print on Demand Product Labels

Retail Product Manufacturers You’re a real company, you make an honest-to-goodness tangible product and people depend on you. Shouldn’t your label printing company operate the same way? We think so. Yet in the wild west of web-retailers, there are plenty of one man print operations pretending to be the real thing, when in reality they…

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Olympus Press Clients

Some print companies like to list their clients, but we don’t share our corporate and big brand client list. However, with a little imagination you may be able to figure out a few… Our clients are: Some of our larger clients are major manufacturing corporations, shoe companies, national airlines, transit authorities, municipalities, telecom corporations, wineries,…

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Creepy Crawly Trading Cards

This is an interesting project we did for a Seattle Company who produced a set of hair-raising trading cards. The cards pulled all the stops making use of some great print techniques like metallic ink fades, spot varnishes and foil stamping—all in the same project….

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Find Great Publishing/Design News with LinkedIn Today

It’s been only 15 months since LinkedIn launched its unique social news aggregator, LinkedIn Today, and already they have nearly 4 million followers. Thanks to the way they aggregate news into 41 industry categories and serve up stories in those categories based on what LinkedIn professionals are reading, LinkedIn today is poised in an unprecedented…

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Print Design College in a Box

Anyone interested in designing well for print should not be without a fantastic print design resource from NewPage called the ‘Ed Books.’ If you’re a print designer and you haven’t seen the Ed Books before, be prepared for a treat.  NewPage, a paper company with a focus on sustainable paper manufacturing, created the books as…

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Social Media Nightmare

Buddy Media, a company that helps clients manage social media through software solutions, recently released this graphic during a new product launch. The graphic was then picked up and added to a blog post at businessinsider.com where it received nearly 30K shares between Linked in, Twitter and Facebook in its first 10 days on the…

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