My name is Greg Barber and I specialize in environmental printing. That means recycled paper, tree free paper, and chlorine free paper, printed with soy ink or 100% non toxic toner.
I own my own company, Greg Barber Company, and I represent several companies that I feel match my environmental mission.
One company that fits my goals is Sandy Alexander, along with their digital division, eSA Solutions.
Both companies are FSC and ISO certified. There are not many printers that can state that they have both certifications.
Last year Sandy Alexander, Inc. consummated one of the largest purchases of Wind Energy on the East Coast, and they continue to use wind Energy as their prime source of energy. Wind Energy is a renewable source of Energy and is oil free.
I also represent Graphic Paper: At Graphic Paper, we specialize in 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper that is 100% processed chlorine free.
Graphic Paper features text and cover papers in 50-100# text and matching cover weights in flat sheets and web rolls. We carry white and 4 colors in our 100% PCW lines. These papers are certified by The Chlorine Free Products Association to be 100% recycled (all post-consumer), 100% process chlorine free, and are FSC certified. We also carry FSC certified, coated papers for both digital and offset presses.
REMEMBER, when choosing recycled papers for your next job, "only" the post-consumer waste content can make a sheet 100% recycled.
A grade that is 100% recycled and 50% post-consumer, is only 50% recycled. This is the standard for being recycled, used by the USEPA, since 1998.
In the example above, the 100% recycled sheet, with 50% post-consumer waste content, is now just a 50% recycled sheet, as only 50% of the paper used is post-consumer waste. The balance is considered pre-consumer, and that extra 50% is not counted anymore. Pre-consumer waste is paper that has never been printed on, and rarely went to our over crowded landfills. Most of the pre-consumer waste used today is paper that never even left the mills.
I also see mills list a lot of their paper grades as 100% recycled, with 30% post-consumer waste. Again, these papers are not 100% recycled. They are simply 30% recycled papers. Their terminology was correct when I started in 1990, but not correct after 1998.
I have a new partner that has introduced several popular Tree Free grades for environmental labels, eco circles, environmental packaging, and environmental point of purchase. The tree free products include mango, sugar cane, bamboo, coffee, lemon, and banana waste, mixed with post-consumer, and Tree Free paper made from limestone and calcium carbonate. We also have labels made from corn starch that are biodegradable.
We print a lot of labels on paper made from Rock & Minerals for the cosmetic industry. We feature FiberStone and TerraSkin. These lines are becoming extremely popular. Both grades are made from limestone and calcium carbonate and are waterproof and tear resistant..
FiberStone and TerraSkin are terrific for making sturdy boxes, business cards, point of purchase displays and pocket folders, etc. from our wide range of weights that we stock Email greg@gregbarberco.com for printed samples and client recommendations..
Our new ECO CIRCLE CARDS, are available in 3" and 3.375" diameter, printed on any of our environmental cover stocks.
They are used as circular business cards, and information cards. We print on both sides. We can add a score in the center, so a client could easily fold the ECO CIRCLE CARDS, and put it in their wallet or roladex. I use these cards as an ice breaker at networking parties or trade shows.
They stand out the next day from the normal business card sizes. The most popular color stocks for these circle cards include white, natural, beige, and kraft in our 100% post-consumer lines and lemon yellow, mango orange, banana cream yellow, coffee in 3 tones of brown, sugar cane beige and natural, hemp natural, and bamboo in white or natural , from our tree Free lines.
We also partner with companies that feature deals on environmental business cards, postcards, and labels, and we sell their products at their published rates.
We made it easy for you to buy right, be environmental, and "not" be taken advantage of. We know the firms that are GREEN WASHING and those firms that are environmentally correct. We are positioning our firm as the watch dog company
of........WHAT IS REALLY GREEN.
We will walk you through their order system, and you will be billed directly from the firms we recommend, and my firm will be your sales rep for these companies, at their published prices. You save time and money by working with us. My staff will contact you with the expected shipping dates and we will tell you the advantages and disadvantages of the papers being offered online. We can provide your company or your agency with the correct environmental emblems to use when printing your job. I get crazy when I see the wrong emblems being printed on jobs I know are not accurate. Green Washing is a HUGE PROBLEM. When working with us, we will make sure you are buying the most environmental option for your budget.
Please email Greg Barber for direct assistance at greg@gregbarberco.com.
Greg has more than 20 years experience in environmental printing sales, and his environmental printing is featured in a new book that just came out called Print & Production Finishes for Sustainable Design that is sold on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.. The publisher, RotoVision, is one of the largest publishers for design and graphic books in the world.
Over 17 pages of sustainable printing jobs are featured in their 190 page book that is printed in multiple languages. Some of the clients featured include Jurlique Cosmetics, Diesel Jeans, Green Apple Cleaners, Landmark, Gaia Soil, Brian Ponto Design, Feed LLC, with the United Nations, Green Maps, TerraSkin, etc.
We will only book those orders when we feel the price, green advantages, and timing meet your expectations. Call Greg Barber at 973 224 1132, and he will walk you through the process.
3-09-08
HOT OFF PRESS: 4 Japanese Paper Companies were found lying about the recycled content of their papers in Japan. This could include the recent claims about 100% PCW coated paper, that was introduced in a major PR blitz, by a leading paper company in the United States.
If you want to read the newspaper report, just emailed to me, email greg@gregbarberco.com. The Japanese Post Office unearthed the paper scam to the public in January.
Remember, if you buy certified, 100% PCW paper and
environmental printing from me, this embarrassing
situation would never occur. Two of our mills are certified by the Chlorine Free Products Association for having 100% post-consumer waste content, being 100% processed chlorine free, being FSC certified, and having no environmental infractions.
This revelation from Japan is what I have been warning my clients about since I started promoting
100% PCW papers 18 years ago, at the 20th anniversary of Earth Day.
I saw the same thing happen in the United States approximately 10 years ago. One U.S mill claimed 100% PCW content, but was found to have less than 60% PCW.
Greg Barber
greg@gregbarberco.com
Printing Services
WE PRINT LARGE & SMALL RUNS, AND WE ARE BEST KNOWN FOR RUSH ORDERS ON ECO FRIENDLY PAPERS FOR BROCHURES. BOTH FOR DELIVERY TIME FRAMES, AND OUR PRICES. WE HAVE AN UPLOAD SYSTEM, THAT ACCEPTS YOUR FILES IN MINUTES, EVEN FOR 50 MEGS.
What we are best known for is rush order brochures in page counts from 8 pages, up to 96 pages plus cover, printed on Mohawk Paper's Options PC 100, with their new I-Tone finish. Options PC 100 is 100% PCW and 100% PCF and with their new finish, created for the Indigo Presses, you can't tell the difference between digital printing and an offset job. We should know, as our own designed brochure, Landfill, was rated in the top 10, by HOW DESIGN MAGAZINE in April. We used 80# and 100# text, and 65#, 80#, 110# and 130# Options PC 100 cover weights. Each weight was run as a 4 page signature, and we color coded the page numbers so you could feel each weight. Essentially, we created a printed sample, swatch book, for Mohawk Paper Company.
Please visit www.landfillzine.com, for our award winning brochure. We are VERY competitive in our pricing, and usually deliver in 24 to 48 hours, on orders up to 500 brochures. You can read Landfill online by clicking the gold arrows. Landfill is about 2nd chances in life. These second chances were written on SEED PAPER, by 13 people, photographed, and then buried, only to grow Wild Flowers, and new chances. We came up with this unique idea, way before the recession and Bernie Madoff. This brochure is about HOPE.
** New Items
- Letterheads
- Envelopes
- Business Cards
- Invitations
- Newsletters
- Brochures
- Pocket Folders
- Postcards
- Direct Mail
- Environmental labels
** We can design and print Green Packaging.
** BIODEGRADABLE BANNERS. CLICK GO GREEN
AT TOP LEFT FOR A PDF OF A HUGE BANNER
WE DID. WE HAVE PRINTED FOR THE USGBC,
GREEN DRINKS, RIDE AMIGOS, CUSHMAN
WAKEFIELD, etc.
** ECO CIRCLES. PROMOTE YOUR COMPANY IN
A CIRCULAR, GLOBAL PATTERN ON OUR TREE
FREE PAPER. WE CAN CREATE A DUPLEX CARD
BY MOUNTING MANGO TO BANANA, ETC. WE
HAVE ORANGE, LEMON, CREAM, BEIGE, COFFEE
WHITE AND NATURAL. WE COULD ADD KRAFT IN
OUR 100% POST-CONSUMER LINES. OUR ECO
CIRCLES ARE 3.375" DIAMETER CARDS. THEY
FIT IN YOUR POCKET AND CAN BE FOLDED IN
HALF BY YOUR CLIENTS LATER.
** FIBERSTONE ROCK AND Mineral Labels
** CLEAR LABELS-Corn Starch Based
** CLEAR BIODEGRADABLE LABELS.
** FIBERSTONE BUMPER STICKERS.
** CORN STARCH LINED COFFEE CUPS AND BOWLS
WORLD PATENT PENDING 1 PIECE CUPS. NON
SPILL CONSTRUCTION. ELIMINATES PLASTIC
LINED CUPS. NO SEPARATE PLASTIC LINED
LID.
** MULTI PAGE BROCHURES, WITH TABS, WIRE-O
OR PERFECT BOUND BINDING. NO MINIMUMS.
** ENVIRONMENTAL WEDDING INVITATIONS.
** TREE FREE BUSINESS CARDS MADE FROM
BANANA, MANGO, COFFEE, AND LEMON PLANTS.
** DUPLEX FRUIT COASTER CALLING CARDS. MANGO
OVER BANANA TREE FREE. COFFEE OVER CREAM
SUGAR CANE TREE FREE. LEMON TREE FREE OVER
100% POST-CONSUMER IN WHITE OR NATURAL.
WE CREATED A 3 3/8" DIAMETER CALLING CARD.
YOUR TEL # ETC. ON ONE SIDE AND YOUR
BENEFITS ON THE OTHER SIDE. IF WE PUNCH A
HOLE AND STRING WITH HEMP, YOU HAVE
A HANG TAG.
** ROCK PAPER BOXES, BROCHURES, etc. PAPER
MADE FROM ROCK & MINERALS. 5 PT - 20 PT.
** SEED PAPER. PRINT IT AND THEN PLANT IT.
** TRAINING MANUALS WITH TABS.
** RECYCLED Expansion Envelopes Eliminating
Bubble Pack Plastic Envelopes.
** CD & DVD Environmental Packaging. Click
GO GREEN AT TOP LEFT, and then click Green
Packaging Design.
** COCA COLA COASTERS MADE FROM DOUBLE THICK,
COVER (TWO 100# COVERS) PRINTED & MOUNTED
TOGETHER (200#). PRINTED 1-4 COLORS ON
BOTH SIDES. GREAT ADVERTISING GIVE AWAY.
CLICK GO GREEN AT TOP LEFT AND THEN CLICK
COASTERS. WE PRINTED COKE COASTERS FOR THE
OLYMPICS IN CHINA. 100% PCW RECYCLED.
SEE GO GREEN AT TOP LEFT.
** HANG TAGS, MADE FROM DOUBLE THICK, 200#,
100% POST-CONSUMER WASTE COVER. WE DID
THIS FOR DIESEL ORGANIC JEANS. WE STRUNG
THE HANG TAGS WITH HEMP STRING.
** ELEPHANT POO PAPER. NEW TREE FREE LINE.
** WE SELL PLAIN, ECO-FRIENDLY PAPER.
WE STOCK TREE FREE BANANA, COFFEE, LEMON, MANGO, SUGAR CANE, BAMBOO, AND FSC COATED PAPER,
AND OUR FEATURED 100% POST-CONSUMER WASTE
PAPERS,IN DIGITAL AND FLAT SIZES. WE ARE
VERY COMPETITIVE ON OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PAPER
PRICES. EMAIL ME FOR OUR NEW PRICE LIST FOR
GARDA GLOSS AND SILK DIGITAL PRICE LIST.
WE STOCK 13 x 19 and 19 x 13 FOR THE NEW
DIGITAL PRESSES. THAT PLUS THE SIZES FOR
BOTH THE IGEN3 and IGEN4, AND THE INDIGO.
We are best known for printing high quality brochures in quantities from 1 brochure to 1 million or more brochures. Obviously, I have no minimums, and we have large web equipment for the very large orders.
Brochures, in quantities from one to 500, and in pages from 8 up to 96 pages plus cover, are usually printed digitally, and we move "extremely" fast.
I now have JPEG, and PDF examples of some of these brochures, along with other environmental projects we have done, in "GO GREEN", at the top, left side of this home page. They will include Virtcom's World Diversity, CodeGreen Solutions, Re-Place, Calmac's Energy Storage system, Coca Cola, our own Green, Mini Brochure. etc.
On the left side of this page, near the top, under GO GREEN, is our award winning 24 plus cover brochure, LANDFILL. This brochure has hit a nerve that we as a country really need. It is about SECOND CHANCES, and about HOPE. We printed this brochure on our Indigo Press, using Mohawk Paper Companies new I-tone finish, 100% post-consumer waste recycled, Options PC 100 stock. We used 80# and 100# text, and 65#, 80#, 110# and 130# covers
to show our clients the different weights and to show how well the I-Tone finish paper prints. You can read the 13 different 2nd chances online, above, by clicking the gold arrows. Have fun being inspired.
FOR OUR BEST SERVICE, GO TO THE TOP OF OUR WEBSITE AND CLICK CUSTOMER SERVICE FOR NAVIGATING OUR SITE, OR IF YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, CLICK ESTIMATES, SEND A FILE OR PLACE A NEW ORDER, AT THE TOP LEFT.
We carry our 100% post-consumer waste/100% processed chlorine free papers in large size sheets, for our 6 color presses. If the orders are smaller, we either cut these master sheets to fit our smaller presses, or we stock the half and quarter size papers.
We feature 28 x 40, 20 x 26 and 14 x 20 5-8 color presses. We also feature several Igen3 Xerox Digital Presses.
We have die cutting, and mailing equipment
on premise. This, plus a full bindery, make our turn around times exceptional.
We now have 1 to 1 Environmental Direct Mail,
personalized to the data collected by our guerrilla marketing team, or supplied by our clients in their Excel Spread Sheet, analyzed by our data staff, and then we mail 100% PCW Recycled postcards to each recipient,with their own weblink
included on our Direct Mail. This is called a PURL
and stands for "Personalized URL". The response rates are 5 times greater than a normal mailing list.
In these tough economic times, Direct Mail does better than traditional advertising. Having Direct
Mail be environmental and targeted to what the recipient likes, gives the ultimate client the exact knowledge of how their budget is doing.
We have one Fortune 500 company bring in a 46%
response rate to one URL we did for them. The national average is less than 1%.
ESTIMATES:
For an estimate, go to our home page, which is in the top left corner of this page, at www.gregbarberco.com, and click Request Estimate. Most of the time, we will have your price back within 24 hours.
We feature 1-4 color printing on all of our environmental lines. If the estimate is a short run, 4 color job, we will quote you digitally and if it is larger, we will quote you on our offset or web equipment.
We also feature 1-2 color printing, using pantone colors, and we would quote those inquires, using soy based inks.
We print newsletters, letterheads, brochures, flyers, pocket folders, hang tags, invitations,
envelopes, business cards,labels, bags, etc on our one color, up to 8 color presses.
Speaking of invitations, such as wedding invitations, we print the table cards, digitally, from supplied Excel Spread Sheets, that have all the names and tables listed.
Also brand new, is our 1 to 1 direct marketing.
Our eSA partnership owns an exciting new software
program called XMPIE. We can do magic with your data. We have one Fortune 500 Company, that got a 46% return on a mailing we did. It was so high, compared to the average under 1% return, that we had to stop the program for a bit, so they could catch up with the fulfillment.
You can change the pictures, the copy, the offer
on every printing piece we mail. You can test a Latino market, a male or female market, etc.
You can lead the customer to the nearest store in their area, and we can still remain environmental
with our paper and print processes.
ENVIRONMENTAL PRINT QUALITY:
Our 100% PCW recycled grades look and print as well as the low per centage, (30%) PCW lines, and also as well as the non recycled opaque lines. We have papers that match up well with the opaque, coated, writing, text and cover grades.
The soy based inks print as vividly as the 100% oil based inks, and the 100% non toxic toners in our digital printing are exceptional.
NUMBER 1 IN DIGITAL PRINTING
My digital print partner, eSA won best print job of the year two years running from the Xerox corporation.
Communication Arts Magazine honored Greg Barber
Company as Environmental Printer of the Year, back in 1998, in their first Echo Kudo awards.
IS ENVIRONMENTAL PRINTING MORE EXPENSIVE?
No. It is not more expensive. Please read the following paragraphs.
We are asked that question a lot. Many young designers are afraid to switch their clients to environmental printing in fear of losing their clients to price.
You are not sacrificing quality to be more environmental, and you are not paying more to be environmental.
I will give you one example of saving a client money, and being environmental at the same time.
We quoted a client on printing 50M brochures that needed 5000 pounds of paper. The estimate called for a 96 brightness, 100% PCW 80# text and a matching 100# cover.
I asked the client if I could also quote on our 90 brightness, 100% PCW line. The answer was yes.
Our savings on the paper alone was over $7000.00. There is a difference in the brightness levels, but with any amount of ink coverage, that difference in brightness is not noticeable.
If the coverage is light, you still need to put the two grades we quoted, next to each other to see the difference.
The $7000.00 saving is a big number. The client chose to use our less expensive 100% post-consumer waste line, that is also 100% processed chlorine free.
I can personally tell you, this paper is comparable in price to most of the non recycled lines out there. We printed all the appropriate emblems, making our client look really good to their client.
We have instituted a two tier price list: 2-3
day pricing, and 5-7 day pricing. See prices below.
At 4 lots of business cards, and 3-4 weeks timing,
we can offer you an additional discount. We run a coop program.
Also, at 8 lots of business cards, our prices are
discounted. Call Greg at 973 224 1132 for these additional options.
NEW PARTIAL PRINT PRICE LIST
To place an order, click Place A New Order at the top of our home page. If you have any questions or you need help placing your order, call me:
973 224 1132 for Greg Barber.
Quantity: 500
Item: Business Cards
Print: 4/0
Stock: 100# Enviro Cover
Price: $95.00 5-7 days
Price: $145.00 2-3 days
Quantity: 1000
Item: Business Cards
Print: 4/0
Stock: 100# Enviro Cover
Price: $155.00 5-7 days
Price: $245.00 2-3 days
You can divide the 1000 cards up.
Total cards: 250 each or 4 names
500 each of 2 names
1000 of 1 name
Quantity: 2000 Total Cards
Item: Business Cards
Print: 4/0
Price: $250.00 5-7 days
Price: $385.00 2-3 days
Total Cards: 500 each of 4 names
1000 each of 2 names
2000 of 1 name.
Quantity: At 8 lots of business cards, we have a discount package.
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Scroll down for more pricing on postcards, natural colors, letterheads, exotic tree free papers, and heavier weight stocks.
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We ship within in 2-3 days or 5-7 days, after your approvals. This is based on good files. Be careful if your files are set up in Microsoft Word or Power Point. We suggest sending a hi res PDF.
We encourage the use of our Environmental Emblems. 100% Post Consumer Waste, 100% Processed Chlorine Free, Wind Energy, BioGas Energy (Energy from the Landfills), Soy Inks, 100% Non Toxic Toner, etc.
We can send them to you electronically.
The FSC emblem needs 1-2 days additional timing, as Smart Wood needs to check that we are an FSC plant, that the paper is FSC certified, and then my TBC plant can place the emblem where you want it. There are specific rules in the size and placement of their emblem that we must follow.
POSTCARDS: PARTIAL PRICE LIST
SIZE: 4.25 x 6
STOCK: ENVIRO COVER: 100%PCW/100%PCF 100# COVER.
Quantity: 250
Print: 4/4
Stock: Enviro Cover
Price: $145.00 5-7 days
Price: $275.00 2-3 days
Quantity: 500
Print: 4/4
Stock: Enviro Cover
Price: $175.00 5-7 days
Price: $325.00 2-3 days
Quantity: 1000
Print: 4/4
Stock: 100# Enviro Cover
Price: $275.00 5-7 days
Price: $425.00 2-3 days
Quantity: 2000
Price: $375.00 5-7 days
Price: $525.00 2-3 days
Timing: 2-3 or 5-7 days, after approved PDF proof.
RUSH SERVICE: email greg@gregbarberco.com for details.
1-2 Day service is available from a supplied Hi Res PDF, with bleed and crop marks.
If you need a press proof: $50.00
SCROLL DOWN 10 paragraphs, FOR GREETING CARD AND STATIONARY PRICES.
HEAVY POSTCARDS IN 100% POST-CONSUMER
We offer 130# in Astrolite PC 100 Cover and Options PC 100. email me at greg@gregbarberco.com.
NATURAL COLORS IN 100% POST-CONSUMER OR TREE FREE
Our natural color papers in 100% PCW include Environment PC 100 natural, Beckett Concept, Astrolite PC 100, Evergreen, Protera, Options PC 100, and Genesis.
We have several tree Free Lines in Natural. One is Bamboo Tree Free. We stock this line in 80# text and 80# cover for our brochure work, as well as for business cards and postcards.
This line does not have specs in it. We usually print a tag line stating, printed on tree free Bamboo, with either soy ink or 100% non toxic toner, depending on which process my clients use.
We stock Sugar Cane in two shades of natural colors, in 80# cover, and this line has specs in it, making it look recycled.
We have the natural colors in 100# and 130# in several of our lines. Call Greg Barber on the pricing for these two weights, at 973 224 1132
BUSINESS CARDS: EXOTIC TREE FREE COLORS.
My Costa Rica Tree Free line is more Exotic. The paper is the color of the fruits they come from. Mango is orange, Lemon is yellow, Banana is a cream color, and Coffee is wild. It looks like 4 different brown colors on the front, and the back side is like a tint of the front. A lot going on, but really cool looking.
We usually print the Exotic Color business cards in 1 color or 4 color process.
We are pretty good at taking 2 PMS colors and printing them in CMYK to achieve the look you want. The paper is expensive, and we don't need much make ready, for digital printing, to get the jobs printed.
At almost $5.00 per pound, our cost, for the paper, we see mostly small orders, like business cards and postcards for these exotic colors.
Call me for the pricing.
GREETING CARDS: 100% POST-CONSUMER
Quantity: 250
Print: 4/4
Size: 9 x 6.25
Scored: 4.5 x 6.25
Price: $375.00 5-7 days
Price: $525.00 2-3 days
Quantity: 500
Print: 4/4
Size: 9 x 6.25
Scored: 4.5 x 6.25
Price: $495.00 5-7 days
Price: $645.00 2-3 days
Quantity: 1000
Print: 4/4
Size: 9 x 6.25
Scored: 4.5 x 6.25
Price: $735.00 5-7 days
Price: $885.00 2-3 days
If you want 10 x 7, scored to 5 x 7 email greg@gregbarberco.com.
LETTERHEADS: PRINTED ON 100% PCW 28#. CERTIFIED BY
THE CHLORINE FREE PRODUCTS ASSOC.
QTY: 500
Print: 4/0
Price: $250.00 (50 cents each/includes paper)
QTY: 1000
Print: 4/0
Price: $450.00 (45 cents each)
ENVELOPES TO MATCH: #10-60#
QTY: 500
Print: 4/0 (No Bleeds)
Price: $375.00
QTY: 1000
Print: 4/0 (No Bleeds)
Price: $600.00
FLYERS: 8.5 x 11 Printed 4/4 on 80# text in
100% PCW or Tree Free Bamboo
QTY: 500
Price: $375.00
QTY: 1000
Price: $590.00
FiberStone BUSINESS CARDS: Printed 2 colors
QTY: 1000
Price: $325.00
QTY: 2000
Price: $395.00
QUOTING, SAMPLE REQUESTS, AND ORDERS.
AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE, you will see the icons to click for the following. REQUEST ESTIMATE, and PLACE A NEW ORDER. If you need our sample kit, click PLACE A NEW ORDER, and type in your billing and shippping address and credit card. Put an (X) in all the other data fields. Our sample kits include 6-8 swatch books and printed samples. We charge $25 for a delivered kit. We rebate this charge with any order to follow.
For estimates, click REQUEST ESTIMATE. Fill in all the print specs, including what type of files you are using. Micosoft Word files and Publisher are harder to work with, and cost more to produce than files done in Illustrator, Photo Shop, and InDesign, etc.
We usually have your quotes back to you within 24 hours. Sample kits are sent out once per week. If you need a rush kit, we can Fed Ex it.
For orders, click PLACE A NEW ORDER, and try to fill out all the data fields. Put an (X) in any field you are not sure of. We will be going over your specs with you by no later than the next morning. Most times, within 1 hour.
SENSATIONAL EDUCATIONAL GIFT: CUSTOMIZED.
We just published a new Children's Educational Book for promoting environmental thinking by Dave Street. This book has a medieval setting
with Knights and Dragons having a debate on the merits of being environmental, ie: does it really matter if one person liters? The art is geared to kids, and the book rhymes, like a Dr. Seuss book. Dave's book is 48 pages plus cover,
and we printed his book in 4 colors.
We did one version digitally to see how the schools liked his book, which they did, and we have now printed over 10,000 new books offset, using Soy Inks. Not bad for a brand new author!
I personally read the first PDF copy and couldn't put this book down, so it isn't just for kids.
I also watched Dave Street put on a show, at a nature school for kids, featuring his book, "How The land Of Liter Became The Kingdom Of Clean", and I watched in amazement, how much the kids loved his book, and how they asked such terrific questions at the end of his show.
One eleven year old child asked Dave, "what is recycled paper"? Another asked, "what does sustainability mean"? We need environmental thinking to start early, and we need to continue
educating our youth always.
DISCOUNT ON THIS POPULAR BOOK: 50% Discount.
$7.00 per book. Add $2.00 for postage.
WE CAN CUSTOMIZE THESE EDUCATIONAL BOOKS:
GREAT GIFT. YOUR AD OR MESSAGE ON BOTH THE INSIDE FRONT AND INSIDE BACK COVER POSITIONS.
QUANTITY: 500
Price: $15.00 each.
QUANTITY: 1000
Price: $10.00 per book.
QUANTITY: 5000
Price: $5.00 per book.
WE CAN PERSONALIZE YOUR GIFT LIST:
Like all of the upscale, variable, digital work we do, you can have multiple ads in the cover positions. Maybe, 50 books get ad A, and the next 50 books get ad B, etc.
If you have 5000 names, we can print each copy on the Inside Front Cover, with their name and the message or ad you want run for each person.
I would need to quote the additional cost to personalize the cover positions, but it wouldn't be bad.
The covers we would run digitally, and the inside pages run offset, as we normally do.
You can't tell the difference in the cover art, between our digital and offset runs.
I see this as a great environmental, promotional gift to give to your clients and friends. I also know corporations spend a lot more than $5.00 to give gifts.
Our Presses
The company I own or the companies I represent have presses from a small black & white digital press, up to large sheet fed presses in 4-8 colors, and we offer large web offset printing.
At our eSA digital plant, we feature the Xerox, Igen3 for larger run, digital printing. The Igen3 allows us to print up to 14.33 x 20.5 size sheets, with little restrictions on the type of paper and the weight of the paper. This press will print up to 6000 8.5 x 11 sheets per hour. The solids look great, and we can print from your uploaded files within hours of receiving your files, if necessary.
We now have BIODEGRADABLE BIOFLEX BANNERS and POSTERS WITH BIODEGRADABLE RECYCLED FOAM CORE,
and can print the posters using vegetable based inks.
The banners print like a coated paper, and now replace the polyester and vinyl banners.
At my High Mountain plant, we feature business card, postcard and letterhead printing, in pantone colors, for 1-2 color offset printing.
At my Alpine plant, we feature short run, digital business cards, postcards, and flyers.
At my Action Plant, we feature medium to large sheet fed printing, a full mailing facility, and die cutting on premise.
Sandy Alexander and their digital plant, eSA Solutions, is known for their high end sheet and web printing, as well as high end 1 to 1 marketing and upscale brochures printed both offset or digital. They service fortune 500 accounts, and have both ISO and FSC certification.
GREEN MAP NEW YORK:
We are pleased to announce that we printed the New York Environmental Green Maps for Green Map, Inc. on our 100% post-consumer waste recycled, 60# Cascades Enviro text. This is a great example of multi color printing and good opacity and folding on an uncoated paper.
Many of our clients are changing to more environmental papers over coated sheets. The natural look is now in vogue.
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Digital Printing
Digital printing avoids film and chemicals used in the normal printing process and we use environmentally friendly inks that are 100% non toxic toner. I consider this process more environmental than when we print with soy inks on our offset presses. Soy ink is 14% soy based and 86% oil based. Our toners are 100% non toxic.
We now have in writing the environmental guarantee from the Xerox Corporation that the toners we use in the Igen3, are 100% non toxic.
That means our toners are 7 times more environmental than soy inks. 14% non toxic for Soy Inks, versus 100% non toxic for our toners.
You can eat the toner and be fine. Don't try that with soy inks.
We also have this guarantee from Minolta/Konica
for our smaller digital machine.
There are numerous other environmental attributes listed in their environmental statements that are pertinent to our environmental stance.
A FEW EXAMPLES OF OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PRINTING JOBS
We are known for our short run, cost conscious, environmental, digital printing, for educational training manuals, trade show printing, such as postcards and flyers, and brochures that are wire-o bound for client presentations, etc., usually printed in 8 pages up to 300 pages. We feature a full bindery on premise. You can have wire-o, perfect bound, saddle stitch, GBC, etc.
Tab dividers, collating, fullfillment and mailing
come with our package.
I consider our pricing inexpensive, especially if you are calling a printer, who does not own an Igen3 press.
Let me tell you about a few jobs we did that are common to my clients.
We printed 400 brochures for the UN, that were 64 pages plus cover, in 4 colors, size 8.5 x 11, that needed a delivery in 24 hours, and we did it. The price was under $8000.00. That was a steal. I delivered them myself, and listened to
a diversity summit, that was terrific.
For a fashion show in NYC, run by Technion, we printed 400, 16 page brochures, size 5.5 x 8.5,
printed 4 color on our enviro 80# text weight, that were needed in 24 hours.
For a Financial account, we printed 100 brochures, with 7 tab dividers, for 28 sheets, printed 1 side, and in 4 color, plus we film laminated the covers, which is not environmental, but sometimes needed, and bound with wire-o for approximately $2000.
We normally want 2-3 days for our printing, but we had no choice on these jobs. We charged some OT, but they were ecstactic to get the printing on time, and we were within their budget.
We feel most brochure jobs that have quantities between 10 and 500, are digital runs, no matter how many pages.
We print many larger runs on our 40 inch presses, but the plates and make readies don't kick in until you reach 1000 copies.
We check digital versus offset pricing on every inquiry we get. Sometimes my clients have no choice, due to timing. Digital dries instantly, and we can go to bindery immediately. The UN job and the fashion job had no time for waiting on offset inks to dry.
I hope you get the idea that we can help you on your next printing job(s). We will switch to offset, if we feel your job is too big for digital printing.
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Recycled Papers
One big advantage at all my plants is we stock 100% PCW/100% PCF recycled paper, recycled and chlorine free coated papers, and tree free papers, and we do not charge a penalty for small print orders. We also pass along our price savings on larger print orders, since we purchase the recycled papers and tree free papers in large volume discounts.
We are known for our 100% post-consumer waste recycled papers. We carry the following lines in writing, text and cover weights:
- Cascades Eco Fiber
- Cascades Enviro 100
- Beckett Concept
- Beckett Cambric Linen Finish
.
Fox River's Genesis.
- Mohawk's Options PC 100
- Monadnock's Astrolite PC 100
- Nennah's Environment PC 100
- Neenah's Classic Crest, laid and linen.
NEW 100% PCW COPY PAPER: 40 CARTONS/PALLOT.
MY PAPER DIVISION, GRAPHIC PAPER, HAS A NEW 100% POST-CONSUMER/100% PROCESSED CHLORINE FREE PAPER CALLED GRAPHIC 100 COPY. IT COMES IN 8.5 x 11 20# and is packed 10 reams per carton. (5000/carton).
Please contact me for other sizes and weights.
40 Cartons: $35.00 per carton
120 Cartons: $34.00 per carton.
320 Cartons: $33.00 per carton.
We will quote the freight, once I know the delivery specs.
Prices: Subject to change. Please email me at
greg@gregbarberco.com. Let us know if you have a loading dock to handle over the road trucks or if you are an inside delivery, which costs more.
FRENCH-CANADIAN EDITION OF HARRY POTTER GOES GREEN.
Gallimard Jeunesse, the childrens division of French-Canadian publisher Editions Gallimard, used 100 per cent post-consumer recycled paper for the first printing of the tome. Gallimard published the book on Environ 100, a post-consumer recycled sheet manufactured by Cascades Fine Paper Group in ST. Jerome, Quebec, north of Montreal.
TREE FREE PAPER:
- Blended Hemp: 25% Hemp/75% PCW :Light Brown
- Sugar Cane & PCW: Mesa White & Tortilla Cream
- Bamboo & PCW 50/50: Natural & White
- Yupo: White
- TerraSkin: Made from Rock & Minerals. White
- Banana: Cream with medium specs.
- Coffee: Two tone Brown. Diff. on both sides
- Mango: Orange with medium specs
- Lemon: Yellow with medium specs
NOW AVAILABLE: TREE FREE BUSINESS CARDS & POSTCARDS, MADE FROM THE LEFT OVER PLANTS FROM MANGO, COFFEE, LEMON & BANANA PLANTS.
Mango is orange, Banana is cream with black specs, Lemon is yellow, and the Coffee is
several tones of brown and a two sided sheet.
Because the paper is colorful and exotic, you can print 1 color and look good.
TREE FREE PRINTED PRICE LIST:
BUSINESS CARDS:
Quantity: 1000 (Total Cards)
Print: 1-4 colors CMYK
Stock: Mango, Lemon, Banana, and Coffee Tree Free Cover.
Price: $275.00
Quantity: 2000 (Total Cards)
Price: $375.00
Total Cards: you can have up to 10 different names that total 2000 cards for the above price.
That would mean, 200 cards each times 10 names.
Or, try 500 cards, each of 4 names.
Email greg@gregbarberco.com for pricing.
TREE FREE NEW ITEM: TERRASKIN.
TerraSkin is water proof, tear resistant, looks like a dull coated sheet and prints like a coated paper. It is very strong. We printed 60M inserts that were inserted into the May/June How Magazine, and the printing was great, and the perf we did, was spectacular. It perfed so cleanly, I was totally amazed.
This sheet competes favorably with the synthetic market, and is about half the price.
Normal brochures, flyers, and covers to books,
where the added strength is needed, make TerraSkin a winner, in both the synthetic market and the upscale corporate market. Besides being tear resistant, TerraSkin is waterproof, but feels and looks like a velvet coated stock. My clients love the feel of this new grade.
We recommend using TerraSkin for high end shopping bags, brochures, flyers, magazine inserts, business cards, waterproof pressure sensitive labels and any project needing strength.
I just printed my own business cards in 2 colors on the 16 PT thickness.
If you want TerraSkin business cards....
QTY: 1000
Print: 2 Color
Price: $395.00
QTY: 2000
Print: 2 Color
Price: $475.00
OK, YOU MAY NOW WANT TO TAKE A BREAK, AND GO TO
THE TOP LEFT SIDE OF THIS PAGE, AND HIT REQUEST AN ESTIMATE OR PURCHASE OUR SAMPLE KIT FOR $25
BY HITING PLACE A NEW ORDER. THE KIT PRICE IS REBATTED WITH ANY ORDER TO FOLLOW. I HAVE BEEN KIDDED THAT MY SITE IS LONG AND PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT BUTTONS TO PUSH. I HOPE YOU PUSH PLACE A NEW ORDER.
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NEW ITEM:
We are Pleased to Announce TerraSkinTM.
TerraSkin, made from rock and minerals, is a tree-free, chlorine free, paper, which will bio degrade back into it's source, the powder of stone, if exposed to ultra violet rays and moisture for 6-9 months. It is possible that in a landfill, this used paper could change back to stone.
We realize the paper business is a big culprit in deforestation, and we think that sometimes a tree free paper is a better option.
TerraSkin has incredible printing capabilities, while using 20-30% less ink. We print only with environmentally friendly inks on this grade as well as our other lines.
TerraSkin can be used to replace tyvek type orders, as this grade is hard to rip and is waterproof, and prints like a coated sheet of paper. Upscale shopping bags, printed sharply in 4 colors, and needing that extra strength and durability make this a grade one you will want to price out, versus the grades presently being used for durable print projects.
I personally think if you need pressure sensitive
labels that are waterproof, this grade is a strong possibility. You can say it is tree free, chlorine free, and although it is more money, it may last long enough to justify switching to this paper.
Literature that comes in contact with water is a
good choice for TerraSkin. Flyers, brochures, business cards, etc. are some of the projects we have printed so far.
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Chlorine-Free Papers
SAVE OIL/SAVE ELECTRICITY/
SAVE WATER/SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT
A PULP MILL USING CHLORINE DIOXIDE USES 35-40,000
GALLONS OF WATER PER TON OF PULP.
IT IS ESTIMATED THAT A SINGLE SHEET OF 8.5 x 11 INCH PAPER BLEACHED WITH CHLORINE CHEMISTRY REQUIRES MORE THAN 13 OZ OF WATER.
SHEETS BLEACHED PROCESSED CHLORINE FREE, USE LESS THAN 2 OZ OF WATER.
I have pushed 100% post-consumer waste paper since 1990 to protect our over crowded landfills,
and our incinerator plants. Now we need to think of our water and global warming issues as well.
Using our 100% PCW lines, does both. I have both issues covered, and we have Third Party Certificates of Authenticity, from the Chlorine Free Products Association, to back up our claims.
We have 100% post-consumer waste papers that are 100% processed chlorine free in 20# and 24#, all the text weights, and in matching cover weights from 50#-130#.
The Chlorine Free Products Association, (CFPA) has certified Cascades Enviro, Inspiration Eco Fiber, and Neenah's Environment PC 100 for being
100% Processed Chlorine Free and 100% Post-Consumer Waste Recycled. Also, they are FSC.
Our 100% post-consumer grades are available in the following sheet sizes and weights:
Sheet Sizes
- Text Weights: 23 x 35 and 25 x 38
- Cover Weights: 23 x 35 and 26 x 40
- Light Weights: 8.5 x 11 and 11 x 17
- Web Rolls: We stock the most popular sizes in web rolls for book publishing and large brochure work. We also can rewind and make special web size rolls.
Weights
Text Weights: 50#, 55#, 60#, 70# and 80#
Cover: 80# and 100# in white and natural, (light ivory) color
Cost & Availablity
We offer Cascades Enviro at a price point that is less expensive than the popular, non recycled opaque grades such as Finch and Cougar Opaque, and is competive in pricing to the 30% PCW lines, and is a "substantial savings" over the other 100% PCW lines on the market.
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Certified Environmental Emblems
We can print the certified environmental emblems from the Chlorine Free Products Association, on your jobs, to substantiate those environmental claims. These claims include 100% Post-Consumer Waste content, 100% Processed Chlorine Free Bleaching, and FSC certification. The Cascades lines, Enviro, Inspiration, and Environment PC 100 have this worthy certification and several other mills are considering the certification process.
We use Cascades Enviro in the 28# weight, and Eco Fibre in the natural colors in 24# or 28# to print letterheads with the certified emblem as a watermark, in any size and in any position you desire. We have no minimum quantity on this watermark system, and we would register your emblem with the CFPA.
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Tree Free Papers
To my die-hard tree free advocates that are disappointed that many tree free lines have been discontinued, I want to inform you that the Rainforest Alliance considers 100% post-consumer waste a suitable second generation tree free paper, as there are no new trees used. Only all post-consumer waste is re-used. As we handle five major 100% post-consumer waste paper lines, please consider this viable alternatve.
We do stock Hemp, Bamboo, Sugar Cane, Mango, Banana, Coffee, and Lemon Tree Free papers.
As availability is sometimes a problem, check
with us before designing your next tree free projct.
Weights
- Writing & Text Weights: 20/50#, 24/60#, 28/70#, 32/80#, 100
- Cover: 80#, 100#, 130# in 100% PCW lines
- Matching Envelopes: 4.25 x 9.5, and all the invitation sizes
- Colors: White, natural, beige, tan, green, light gray, and blue
- Many of these items are certified by the CFPA for our environmental claims.
Sample Paper Kits
If you want our fully packed sample kit, our kits sell for $25.00 delivered, and we "rebate" this price with your first order.
If you want a swatch book and a few samples, that
sample request is free.
Our fully packed kits include our Tree Free Lines, which include Mango, Banana, Coffee, Lemon, Sugar Cane, Bamboo and our Rock papers. Rock paper is made from Limestone and Calcium Carbonate. There is no water used in making the rock papers, and they look like a dull caoted paper and print like a coated paper.
We have printed samples of our uncoated and coated recycled and tree free lines, and swatch books so you can feel and see the different weights, colors and sizes that these environmental lines come in.
If you want the book, How The Land Of Liter Became The Kingdom Of Clean, we sell the book for $7.00.
Add $2.00 for postage.
We also offer MAILING SERVICES. If you supply your names on an Excel Spread sheet, we can print those names while we are printing the postcards, as we have variable print capabilities. This would save time and money and freight charges to a mailing house.
You could even alter each postcard. We have
done this sucessfully for clothing stores that feature different color suits on their personalized postcards to their clients, and car dealerships showing different color cars.
Maybe, the client bought a yellow shirt last time, and the store has a sale on a brown suit. They want to show a brown suit. The next client bought a gray shirt last time, and the store wants to show a blue suit this time.
For approximately $200, we could run all the cards tailored to the tastes of your clients. Try 10 different sets of cards.
TRI-FOLD BROCHURES
A great way to present your benefits is by printing a simple 8.5 x 11 two side flyer, and folding twice to 3.67 x 8.5 and mailing them. The stock is either 80# text in 100%PCW/100%PCF or 100# recycled and chlorine free coated text.These prices include press proofs:
500: $375.00
1,000: $590.00
Additionally, we can imprint your mailing list, while we are printing the tri-fold brochures, in one press run.
YOU NEED TO CONSIDER YOUR MAILING COSTS AS PART OF THE TOTAL EXPENDITURE. We can address, add the indicia, and the postage, and mail for you in one motion. You will save money.
FLYERS
4 color two sides on either the 100% PCW/100% PCF uncoated or our recycled and chlorine free 100# coated text.
500: $375.00
1,000: $590.00
PAPER
100% POST-CONSUMER/100% PROCESSED CHLORINE FREE
We sell large quantities of paper directly to printers and publishers for books, etc. Our Enviro line is a huge savings in the 100% post-consumer/100% processed chlorine free markets, and also sells competively against less environmental papers, such as 30% post-consumer.
Also, 30% PCW paper is ECF (Elementally Chlorine Free), which is not so good. ECF bleaching will cause DIOXINS, which when mixed with other chemicals will cause cancer, and will pollute our water causing undue damage to our wildlife and to ourselves.
ENVIRO PAPER PRICING
2,000 pounds: 80 cents per pound (flat sheets)
5,000 pounds: 74 cents per pound (flat sheets)
10,000 pounds: 70 cents per pound (flat sheets)
WEB TONNAGE IS LESS PER POUND. Please email me for any further discounting and availability at greg@gregbarberco.com.
Enviro is being used for large runs in book publishing, like the recent Harry Potter book, especially since the paper is the most environmental stock sold, has the certification of The Chlorine Free Products Association, and you can use the certification emblems on your print projects, and the price is right.
STATIONERY
If you need a small run of stationery, printed on our 100% post-consumer/100% processed chlorine free grades, or our tree free grades, for letterheads, and matching envelopes, our prices are:
QTY: 500 letterheads
Print: 4 color
Price: $250.00
QTY: 500 matching envelopes
Print: 4 color
Price: $375.00 (no bleeds)
Qty: 1000 letterheads
Print: 4 color
Price: $425.00
Qty: 1000 matching envelopes
Print: 4 color
Price: $600.00 (no bleeds)
You can choose your paper.
We offer white, light gray, medium gray, light blue, cream, beige, and tan in our 100% PCW lines, and Bamboo/PCW in white and natural.
...and we feature bright color papers from Mango Orange (Mango Plant), Lemon Yellow (Lemon Plant), Banana Cream (Banana Plant), and our two toned, Coffee Brown, from our (Coffee Plants).
Laser Guaranteed Inks
Besides the speed of our deliveries and the environmental benefits, one more "extremely critical" benefit of our stationary printing is that our toners are organic and "Laser Guaranteed."
We print our short run digitally and most digital printers will not guarantee that when you imprint your message on their letterheads, the toners will not run.
Our toners are set and are not affected by heat. The toners we use on our #2 machine are also 100% non toxic.
If you are uploading files for us to see for accurate pricing, click Send A File. Type in the quantity, size, color of inks, etc in the window box.
Preparing Your Files
My clients ask me what files to send, and we can work with almost anything you have, as long as you can also send us a HI RES PDF. We can see what your native files look like by comparing them to your PDF. We find PDFs also help us in accurately pricing your jobs. We support the following programs:
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe PhotoShop
- Microsoft Publisher
- Microsoft Word
- QuarkXpress
Digital Jobs
• I usually encourage my clients to run digital on orders up to 500 to 1000 sheets per form, on our maximum sheet size 14 x 20, and after 1000 sheets, I then start figuring your prices on our larger sheet fed presses. On 1 and 2 color work, I generally just figure our offset presses.
• We run most 4 color business card orders digitally. Even 2 colors jobs converted to CMYK and ,if necessary, color corrected in photo shop, can be printed at lower prices than on our 2 color offset presses. That assumes we can match the pantone colors chosen. Sometimes we can.
We are able to print 24 lots of business cards on our 13 x 20 sheet size. If you have 4 names to print, at 500 cards per name, that means we need to print only approximately 85 sheets through our press.
Our prices for business cards are low, when you have larger runs, and a lot of names to print. Also, if you can combine business cards with postcards, using the same paper, I can put them together for a substantial savings.
• For flyers and light weight brochures, we specialize in running them on 100% post-consumer recycled papers, coated recycled paper, denim blue jean reclaimed cotton, and blended tree free papers using Kenaf and Hemp. Many of these grades are chlorine free.
• For those clients that need matte, dull or gloss coated, we stock all weights and finishes. Our lines are recycled and many are chlorine free.
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Variable Data Mailings
We also feature environmental printing for items such as wedding invitations, fund raisers, and personalized, direct mail.
We can take your data base and tailor your mailings, as finite as you need. Studies show that variable mailings can produce 5 times better results for a modest set up fee of your variable commands.
If you know 100 clients bought x product, we can personalize the text and the pictures to seeing if they are interested in purchasing your products again, while a different set of copy, pictures and names could be tailored to another group, who you know bought a different product line.
We can set this up and run as many variables as you desire. Our Igen3 press is becoming the #1 digital press on the market today. Our quality is terrific. You can't tell the difference between conventional offset printing and our digital printing. I offer both, and I can't believe the advances in our digital presses.
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Graphic Design Services Available
If you need help with your files, we charge $50 per hour. We can design from your faxed copy and emailed pictures, or we can correct your files and make new hi res PDF's for your approval.
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Articles
I have written a few articles that I have below that are educational. ie: What Is Recycled Paper, or Trust Me Is Not Good Enough, etc. Click, go to archives to the far right of Hot Off The Press, if my articles have been archived.
Awards
My firms have won Best Printing Awards from several magazines that include Design Graphics, How Magazine, and Communication Arts for jobs printed on Tree Free Reclaimed Denim Blue Jeans, and for jobs printed on our 100% Post-Consumer Waste Recycled/100% Processed Chlorine Free lines. We also won BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PRINTER
from Communication Arts in 1998.
FAQs
I also have a lot of your potential questions answered in the FAQ section. If you need to find my FAQ section, it is to your left near the bottom, under GO TO. Click GO TO and then FAQ, and you will be linked.
Some of our satisfied accounts for plain paper include the NRDC, Feed LLC, The US Fish & Wildlife, The USEPA, The United Nations, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Earth Pledge, Columbia University, Cornell, Citra-Solv, Green Maps, etc.
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I look forward to working with you. I prefer being emailed, and I usually respond within 1-4 hours. My cell # is 973 224 1132.
We are pleased to announce that we have named Anthony Rios to head our Latino Sales Division.
Please let us know if you need Anthony for bi-lingual design.
Contact Info:
Greg Barber Company
776 Hudson Avenue
Secaucus, NJ 07094
973 224 1132
greg@gregbarberco.com
Sincerely,
Greg Barber
President
973 224 1132 Cell
greg@gregbarberco.com