sykesprinting.com

Sykes Printing is known locally for it's excellent customer service. Many of our customers have been with us for generations. Our customers know that we deliver on time; often meeting "impossible" deadlines. We also have a new facility and have replaced much of our equpment in the last few years. The new facility is located in the central Coral Gables business area and many customers, on tight schedules will stop by and "wait" on thier work. We usually find a way to accomadate even the toughest deadlines or meeting schedules.

A Brief History of Sykes Printing

Sykes printing was first opened in September, 1959 as D & C, Inc. It was a partnership between Winford and Dorothy Sykes. Shortly into the 1960's the company was renamed Sykes Printing. The original business was blueprinting and offset printing. The blueprinting was the old blue background with white lines, run through two chemical baths and hung out to dry. The offset presses were used to do the specification books, run eight up and cut to eight by eleven and bound. This was pre-copy machine and long before digital printing.

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Brief History - continued

The company has changed in many ways over the years but always has been very customer service oriented. In 1972 Gene Rodgers came in as a partner of the firm. He and his wife, Gladyes would run Sykes through out the 1970's. Although there were some changes, they came much slower than today. One major change was the change over from blueprinting to bluelines. The blueline process involved many less chemicals and was much faster then the old blueprint process. The blueline process still exists today, however, it is quickly being replaced by digital printing. In 1981 the Harmon family bought Sykes. They had been involved in the blueprinting business for many years as Harmon printing in downtown Miami. They brought their slogan " Perfect Prints Promptly" with them. The Rodger's stayed on on a semi retired basis in order to have a smooth transition and no noticeable change in service to the customers. As the 1980's were beginning there were many changes in the printing business. The major change was that copy machines were now becoming capable of high speed duplicating, replacing the old large presses. The only offset business left would be products that don't work well on copiers and long runs. As the 1990's started no one could have predicted how quickly and the scope of change would be. The decade began with decent copiers and blueline printing and would finish up with programmable copiers and digital printing. Each generation of copiers became faster and easier to use. The advent of AUTO-CAD drove the change to digital printing. In 1995 Sykes had one small office plotter, in 2003 we now have several Oce printers that turn out large format digital printing almost as fast as regular office copiers. As the new century moves along, Sykes continues to innovate and improve our products and services. The original idea of superior customer service continues to this day and all the changes have made printing faster and more economical for all of our customers.

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