Digital Communication

We are your source for graphic and marketing materials that grow your business.

What’s a print company doing with a blog?  Here are some goals: Share client success. Discuss marketing trends. Help you grow your business. You never know what you might find, but at a minimum, we’ll educate and put a smile on your face.

  • Guest entries from customers and vendors
  • Innovative installations to grow your business
  • Employee achievement and team spotlights

Our goal is to share information that is interesting, answer your questions and helps you make decisions about the printing services you need.

Woody Two Shoes

Corrugated Wood Paper

Chip off the Old Wood Block

What is Wood Paper? And why should you consider printing on wood paper? In this series, we discuss where it comes from, who uses it and applying it to your next project.

Occasionally, the team receives questions about printing images on wood…

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Have a Ball

Cushing is proud to partner with the Printers Ball, coming up Saturday, June 28. Angee Lennard, founder and executive director of the Spudnik Press Cooperative has more details on why you don’t want to miss this event! Register here!

A Group of PrintMakers

Over the last decade, the Printers Ball has become…

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Signage, Sunlight and Making it Work

What types of signage do you see walking the streets of Chicago?

Signage comes in a variety of sizes and specifications.

Picking the brains of our production staff, I’ve been learning about important weather-related factors every marketer should consider.

For instance, did you know heat can affect signage? What about humidity?…

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Lego it Go (Sorry Frozen Fans)

Ten Yard Fight

Appy to See You
Have you ever stumbled across a Lego Wall?  I had not either. And no, I was not gearing up for a trip to Legoland.

Solstice Mobile is an enterprise innovation and mobility solutions firm, delivering engaging strategies and products to many notable organizations around…

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Cross it Off

How does one improve inbound marketing efforts?

No, I’m not asking – this was keeping me up into the early morning hours.  From online chat (we implemented at the end of last year!) to content marketing, there is no one right answer.

And don’t get me started on social media.

Perhaps each month you…

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America’s Printed Pastime

Boys of Summer 

Although recent weather feels more like football season, it’s time to break out your favorite team’s jersey or hat, head down to the ballpark, and enjoy nine innings – Cubbies or Pale Hose.

Even if you’re not a diehard, there is something special about spring and taking in a…

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