In St. Ann, Missouri, residents have the opportunity to vote to make spaying and neutering services free without restriction to residency requirements. The St. Animal Pet Adoptions (SAPA) is trying to get enough votes to make this service for free for those who could not otherwise afford this service. If there are enough votes, SAPA will receive a grant to carry out this service for free.

For St. Ann professionals interested in acquiring more business contacts, St. Louis Entrepreneurs is having its next meeting on March 28th.

St Ann printing companies will be keeping an eye on developments from Esko at the next Fespa Digital, to be held in Barcelona from February 21-24. The company plans to show off its solutions for workflow streamlining, dubbed design to print to cut. Those involved in banner printing will be particularly interested in its use for signs and displays. The display will feature workflow automation too the i-cut Automate which allows users to use automation to streamline prepress operations and reduce the likelihood of operator error. This also reduces materials wastage. The i-cut Automate is part of a suite that streamlines workflow for making signs and displays. It includes pre-flight, layout and digital finishing tools and allows printers to work with several types of materials.

Oce has launched new 30-inch monochrome inkjet printers. The company says that these are the most compact printer systems of their class, with a 27 square meter footprint. This will make it easy for them to fit into printing company plants in St Ann and elsewhere. There are three models in the series, with print speeds ranging from 100mpm to 200mpm. As well as being suited for 30-inch wide paper and a print width of 29.5 inches, the printers use Oce pigment ink and can deliver an image quality perceived to be up to 1200 dpi. According to Oce, the JetStream 4300, which can print up to 24,000 B1 images in an hour, is the industrys fastest 30 inch inkjet printer. Its output is about 20% higher than similar systems.

A recent article on the Leaflet Printing website provides some advice that St. Ann, Missouri printing companies can give their clients who need to save money on flyer printing costs. Since in todays economy some clients may struggle with paying for printing services, the article suggests saving money by sharing the cost with another company. It suggests finding a company that is targeting the same market but offering a complementary service and printing a joint brochure. Thats a win-win for both brochure printers and their clients.

Branding your business is a great option to help small businesses expand, says a recent article in the Pontiac Daily Leader. Using printing services to give your product or your service a memorable and identifiable image is one simple way to make your business stand out, whether youre based in St. Ann, Missouri or the Big Apple. The article includes tips aimed at small business owners from Karen Post who has written Brand Turnaround.