Impressions Incorporated

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Impressions Incorporated launches new printing technology to expand the color gamut beyond four-color process and eliminate the need for spot colors.

One company that successfully made the move into packaging is St. Paul, Minn.-based Impressions Incorporated (www.i-i.com). It made the move more than ten years ago at a time when its base business was on a steady increase.

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Impressions Inc. now offers its customers promotional products. iiPromo™ is a new way for Impressions Inc. to support their customers’ success. It allows customers to order printing, packaging and promotional items from one source.

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Impressions Incorporated has announced that it is a certified licensed 1.01 MetalFX® printer. The MetalFX® process is economical and a creative option for printers, designers and consumers. Impressions can now offer its customers millions of metallic color options. Metallic adds a unique, attention-grabbing quality to any print job. Andrew Ainge, managing director of MetalFX® says, “MetalFX® is determined to bring the printing of metallics into the mainstream, and become the generic name for metallic printing worldwide.” The MetalFX® process begins with MFX® base silver ink. On a second pass CMYK is printed over the MFX®. Colors range from deep, rich to light,

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Impressions Incorporated is celebrating its 40th year of business. Mark Jorgensen, Sr. opened a small privately held, family owned and operated printing company in October 1967. Today, the company has grown to be in the top 1 percent in size for the printing industry, according to the company. Forty days of drawings were held to reward employees for their hard work and dedication to the company. At an internal party, CEO, Mark Allen Jorgensen stated, “Forty years ago we would have been satisfied to have a successful run go on this long. Now that it has, it is not long enough. New

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Impressions Inc. has recently completed the construction of a 35,000-square-foot expansion to their St. Paul facility. The new addition will be used for mostly in-house sheeting and warehousing. With the newly added square footage, the St Paul headquarters will now have over 85,000 square feet of production/warehousing space. Impressions Inc. is a privately held, family owned specialty printing and packaging company located in St. Paul, Minn. They specialize in the production printing and packaging for industries such as; software, pharmaceutical, medical device, health & beauty, specialty food and advertising. They pride themselves on being able to react quickly to customers’ needs as

THE SHEER SIZE and impeccable registration of the Domaine Chandon Brut corrugated preprint entry captured the attention of the 2003 Excellence Awards judges and this year's Best of Show prize. The package, produced by Inland Paperboard and Packaging, stands 75˝ tall with six panels printed across the web—a difficult undertaking, remarked Cordes Porcher of Smurfit-Stone Container and a 2003 Excellence Awards judge. "The registration across the web is very consistent," Porcher said, "and the size of the repeat is very large. As a result, the job was very difficult." Excellence Awards judge Roy Webb of Mark Andy added, "Because of the big sheet it