Commercial Printers

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1.
Avanti/Case-Hoyt Corp.
P.O. Box 24001
100 Beaver Road
Rochester, N.Y. 14624
889-5670

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 360/4
Number of Outside Salespeople: 15
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): $55,000
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Annual reports, automobile and direct-mail catalogs,
cruise brochures
Principal Clients: Neiman Marcus Co., Bloomingdale’s, Mobil Corp., PepsiCo
Inc., Ford Motor Co., Ameritech Corp., Eastman Kodak Co.
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Heidelberg: 28 x 40; web: 23.5 x 38
President: William Turri

2.
Hammer Lithograph Corp.
330 Metro Park
Rochester, N.Y. 14623
424-3880

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 229/10
Number of Outside Salespeople: 10
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 30,500
Services Available(1):
Artwork:
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Multicolor sheet-fed offset packaging printing,
including labels and box wraps; premium envelopes; point-of-purchase
displays
Principal Clients: The Coca-Cola Co., Kodak, Cantisano Foods Inc.,
Canandaigua Brands Inc., Welch Foods Inc., T. Marzetti Co.
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Mitsubishi eight-color: 28 x 40;
Mitsubishi six-color: 28 x 40; Planeta six-color: 40 x 55; Harris five-
color: 43 x 60; Harris four-color: 43 x 60
President: James Hammer

3.
Flower City Printing Inc.
4800 Dewey Ave.
Rochester, N.Y. 14612
663-9000

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 195/7
Number of Outside Salespeople: 13
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 27,048
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Color printing, package labels, box wraps, folding
cartons, extensive prepress electronic imaging and archiving
Principal Clients: Local and regional Fortune 1,000 companies
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Sheet-fed offset: 28 x 40, 41 x 56
and 44 x 64
President: Wayne Scheible

4.
Mercury Print Productions Inc.
50 Holleder Parkway
Rochester, N.Y. 14615
458-7900

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 168/16
Number of Outside Salespeople: 12
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 16,300
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Technical manuals, brochures, annual reports,
newsletters, point-of-sale materials, catalogs, price lists, digital
storage, high-speed color copying, kit-building, fulfillment
Principal Clients: Xerox Corp., Kodak, Rochester Gas and Electric Corp.,
Frontier Corp., Wegmans Food Markets Inc.
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): A.B. Dick 9870: 11 x 17; Heidelberg
GTO: 14 x 20; Heidelberg two-color: 28 x 40; Heidelberg two-color
perfector: 28 x 40; Heidelberg five-color perfector: 28 x 40; Heidelberg
six-color with coater: 28 x 40
President: Valerie Mannix

5.
Monroe Litho Inc.
39 Delevan St.
Rochester, N.Y. 14605
454-3290

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 156/5
Number of Outside Salespeople: 12
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 19,200
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Quick turnaround commercial printing; pre-press
services; digital image storage, retrieval and re-purpose
Principal Clients: Local and regional manufacturing, service and
advertising firms
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Heidelberg: 28 x 40; Komori eight-
color with coater: 28 x 40
President: Mark Ashworth

6.
Messenger-Wolfe Publications
73 Buffalo St.
Canandaigua, N.Y. 14424
394-0770

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 130/60
Number of Outside Salespeople: 2
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): NA
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Full-size, tabloid and quarter-fold newspapers; food/
retail newspaper inserts
Principal Clients: Food retailers, colleges, miscellaneous private companies
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Sheet-fed: 11 x 17; web: 21.5 x 35
President: George Ewing Jr.

7.
Cohber Press Inc.
P.O. Box 93100
Rochester, N.Y. 14692
475-9100

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 128/0
Number of Outside Salespeople: 18
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 22,372
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Commercial printing, color separation, brochures,
catalogs, direct-mail labels, annual reports, point-of-purchase material,
sell sheets, electronic imaging, direct digital-to-plate, digital storage,
high-speed copying
Principal Clients: Manufacturing firms, high-tech corporations, advertising agencies, colleges, banks, pharmaceutical companies
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Heidelberg Speedmaster two-color and
10-color: 28 x 40; Heidelberg Quickmaster Direct Imaging: 14 x 20;
Heidelberg T-Offset: 11 x 15; Xerox Docutech: 11 x 17
President: Eric Webber

8.
Monroe Graphics Inc.
274 N. Goodman St.
Rochester, N.Y. 14607
473-6600

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 108/15
Number of Outside Salespeople: 8
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 12,500
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: One- through multicolor commercial printing, high-
volume and fast turnaround work, print-on-demand, bindery, facilities
management
Principal Clients: Manufacturing, advertising, publishing, education,
health care, banking, retail, pharmaceutical
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Heidelberg two-color: 14 x 20 and
28 x 40; Heidelberg perfector four- and five-color: 28 x 40
President: Thomas Gruber

9.
Canfield & Tack Inc.
925 Exchange St.
Rochester, N.Y. 14608
235-7710

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 92/1
Number of Outside Salespeople: 10
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 14,346
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Advertising brochures, point-of-sale material, pocket
folders, catalogs, annual reports
Principal Clients: Canandaigua Brands, Xerox, Kodak, Corning Inc.
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Komori six-color with tower coater:
28 x 40; Komori six-color: 28 x 40; Komori four-color: 28 x 40; Komori one-
over-one perfector: 28 x 40; Itek 3985 two- color: 12 x 18; Hamada two-
color: 11 x 17
President: Daniel Mahany

10.
Tucker Printers
270 Middle Road
Henrietta, N.Y. 14467
359-3030

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 79/1
Number of Outside Salespeople: 8
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 11,834
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Commercial printing and finishing in one- and multicolor
Principal Clients: Manufacturing, educational, pharmaceutical, advertising
agencies
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Heidelberg: 28 x 40
President: Kenneth Backus

11.
Upstate Litho Inc.
73 Cook Drive
Rochester, N.Y. 14623
334-8770

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 68/0
Number of Outside Salespeople: 8
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 8,500
Services Available(1):
Artwork:
Bindery: X
Layout:
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Sheet-fed multicolor printing, fine-arts prints,
advertising collateral, point-of- sale materials, technical manuals
Principal Clients: Xerox, Alside Corp., contract furniture industry,
Corning Museum of Glass
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): 640 Komori: 28 x 40; Planeta four-
color perfector: 28 x 40; Heidelberg two-color: 28 x 40
President: Michael Lehmann

12.
St. Vincent Press Inc.
250 Cumberland St.
Rochester, N.Y. 14605
325-5320

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 33/1
Number of Outside Salespeople: 3
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 2,713
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Marketing and corporate-identity brochures, newsletters,
direct-mailing materials, catalogs, books, multicolor sheet-fed printing
products
Principal Clients: Local and regional Fortune 1,000 companies, advertising
agencies, design agencies, financial, education, legal, health care
facilities
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Komori four-color: 20 x 26;
Heidelberg two-color: 28 x 40; Miehle two-color: 28 x 40
President: Barbara Anzalone

13.
Monarch, a division of Eltrex Industries Inc.
65 Sullivan St.
Rochester, N.Y. 14605
454-6100

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 25/4
Number of Outside Salespeople: 2
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): Approximately 2,500
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.:
Principal Products: NA
Principal Clients: Xerox, RG&E, Schlegel Systems Inc.
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Miller: 25 x 38
President: Melody Cofield

14.
Oser Press Inc.
1239 University Ave.
Rochester, N.Y. 14607
442-5621

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 24/0
Number of Outside Salespeople: 3
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 2,000
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.:
Principal Products: Commercial printing
Principal Clients: Advertising agencies, business and manufacturing firms,
colleges, health care facilities
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): A.B. Dick: 13.5 x 17.75; Heidelberg:
14 x 20.5; Heidelberg: 19 x 25.5; Heidelberg: 20.5 x 29.13
President: Seth Oser

15.
James Conolly Printing Co. Inc.
1940 Lyell Ave.
Rochester, N.Y. 14606
254-0150

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 21/3
Number of Outside Salespeople: 3
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): NA
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Commercial offset printing in one to four colors
Principal Clients: NA
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Hamada: 11 x 17; Multilith: 10 x 15;
Chief: 10 x 15; Harris: 23 x 29; Komori: 20 x 26; Heidelberg: 19 x 25;
Miehle: 13 x 19
President: Robert Conolly

16.
The Daily Record Corp.
11 Centre Park
Rochester, N.Y. 14614
232-6920

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 15/2
Number of Outside Salespeople: 1
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): NA
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Publication of the Daily Record newspaper, legal briefs
and records, other legal printing, newsletters
Principal Clients: Attorneys, judicial, contractors, developers, realtors,
credit organizations, non- profit, insurance, education
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Three-unit web: 11 x 17; Xerox 5390:
23 x 29
President: Johnson Hay

17.
East Ridge Quickprint
1258 E. Ridge Road
Rochester, N.Y. 14621
266-4911

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 14/0
Number of Outside Salespeople: 2
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): NA
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Newsletters, brochures, sell sheets, stationery, color
copying, T-shirts, cookbooks
Principal Clients: Small businesses, advertising/marketing agencies, retail
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): A.B. Dick Century 3000 two-color:
12 x 18; A.B. Dick 9800 two-color: 12 x 18
President: Richard San Angelo

18.
Downtown Minuteman Press
101 Midtown Plaza
Rochester, N.Y. 14604
546-1160

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 13/0
Number of Outside Salespeople: 2
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): NA
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Stationery, envelopes, brochures, newsletters, high-
speed and color copying, layout and artwork, binding and finishing
Principal Clients: Financial institutions, advertising agencies, designers,
attorneys, large corporations and small businesses
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Multigraphics: all sizes of
envelopes; Multigraphics: 11 x 17; Multigraphics: 14 x 18
President: William Malone

19.
Tanya Printers Inc.
9 Turner Drive
Spencerport, N.Y. 14559
352-7446

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 12/3
Number of Outside Salespeople: 2
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): NA
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.:
Principal Products: Corporate stationery, other commercial printing
Principal Clients: Legal, corporate, educational, pharmaceutical
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Man Roland 202 two-color: 20 x 29;
A.B. Dick two-color: 13 x 18; Ryobi two-color: 11 x 17; Heidelberg one-color: 10 x 15
President: Timothy Hall

20.
Express Press
1279 Chili Ave.
Rochester, N.Y. 14624
235-8775

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 11/0
Number of Outside Salespeople: 1
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): NA
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: One-, two- and four-color printing; graphic design;
high-speed copying
Principal Clients: Print brokers, advertising agencies, manufacturing,
retail
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Ryobi one- and two-color: 12 x 19
President: Bob Clar

21.
Sir Speedy Printing
2900 Monroe Ave.
Rochester, N.Y. 14618
586-2533

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 9/0
Number of Outside Salespeople: 1
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 1,011
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Printing, color copying
Principal Clients: NA
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Did not specify types or sizes
President: Nancy Beaston

22.
No Other Impressions Inc.
10 Symington Place
Rochester, N.Y. 14611
436-8500

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 8/3
Number of Outside Salespeople: 2
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 2,000
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Commercial offset printing and finishing
Principal Clients: Manufacturers, advertising agencies, publishing
companies, non-profits
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Heidelberg five-color double
perfector: 28 x 40; Heidelberg two-color perfector: 28 x 40
President: Elaine McCarthy

23.
Pinnacle Printers Inc.
620 South Ave.
Rochester, N.Y. 14620
461-2556

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 6/3
Number of Outside Salespeople: 2
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): NA
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Catalogs, brochures, packaging, full-color work, books
Principal Clients: Print brokers, designers, government agencies, non-
profits, small businesses, advertising agencies, other printers
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Miller TP-38 four-color perfector:
25 x 38; Harris 36A: 24 x 36; A.B. Dick 9810 two-color t-head: 13 x 19;
A.B. Dick 360 two-color t-head: 11 x 17; A.B. Dick 360 one-color t-head:
11 x 17; Multi 1250 with envelope feeder: 10 x 15
President: Paul Usdane

24.
Midtown Printing & Graphics Services Inc.
49 Charlotte St.
Rochester, N.Y. 14607
546-5297

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 5/1
Number of Outside Salespeople: 4
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 1,880
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.:
Principal Products: Marketing-communications materials, production
assistance/management
Principal Clients: NA
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Did not specify types or sizes
President: Thomas Barton

Sonship Printer/Knorr Inc.
69 O’Connor Road
Fairport, N.Y. 14450
377-2370

Number of Employees Full Time/Part Time: 5/1
Number of Outside Salespeople: 1
1997 Gross Sales Volume From Local Operations ($000): 350
Services Available(1):
Artwork: X
Bindery: X
Layout: X
Color Sep.: X
Principal Products: Sale sheets, direct-mail materials, envelopes,
stationery
Principal Clients: Manufacturing, service, non-profits
Press Type(2): Press Size(s) (inches): Multi 1960 two-color: 15 x 18; Itek
975 two-color: 12 x 18; Multi 1360 one-color: 11 x 17; Multi 1250 one-
color: all sizes of envelopes; Multi 1250 two-color: all sizes of
envelopes
President: Stephen Knorr

*In case of ties, firms are ranked by number of part-time employees.
Notes: Information was provided by commercial printers in Monroe and
Ontario counties that responded to a mail and telephone survey by April 27.
The list includes firms with a minimum of five full-time employees.

(1)Other services mentioned include binding, color copying, color output,
computer-to-plate printing, desktop publishing, die cutting, document/image
management, envelope printing, facilities management, folding and gluing,
fulfillment, high-speed copying, laminating, mailing materials, mounting,
print-on-demand, typesetting, and warehouse/distribution services.
(2)Printers may have more than one of each press type listed.

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Researched by Bill Myers and Joanna Camp