Generations
of Quality
SCRANTON PRINTING BASES 113-YEAR-OLD BUSINESS
ON DELIVERING HIGH-END RESULTS
If you were to ask Barry Strauss of Scran-
ton Printing Co. to describe his family’s
business in a few words, he would most
likely say “quality, innovation, and knowl-
edge.”
Now located at 1225 Penn Avenue in
Scranton, the 113-year-old business
was founded in 1907 by Strauss’s great-
grandfather, Nate Strauss, who moved
to Scranton from New York City with the
intention of starting a newspaper. The
elder Strauss quickly realized that there
was a need for quality printing locally
and the rest is history.
“We work hard to produce great print
materials for our clients, and work with
a wide variety of businesses because of
that passion,” Strauss said. “Our clients
include health care companies, advertis-
ing agencies, universities, and all sorts
of businesses from smaller start-ups to
large national companies.”
While Scranton Printing does produce
marketing materials to fit every business
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need, they also help with other projects,
such as direct mail campaigns, custom
boxes, die cutting, and other jobs that
other printers may not service.
“Evolving as a business is crucial, and
it’s important to us to keep up with the
times,” Strauss said. “Over the years,
we have acquired an impressive amount
of custom printing and binding equip-
ment, which gives our clients many more
options than we would have been able
to provide a few decades ago while giv-
ing us the tools to create top-of-the-line
products.”
One way in which Scranton Print-
ing has evolved is through
offering direct mail ser-
vices. It has also recently
purchased a local label
company, Garney La-
bel. They also offer
“green products,”
which include re-
cycled paper stocks,
among other things, without sacrificing
print quality.
“It is important to our business to be as
clean as possible while setting a smaller
footprint,” Strauss said. “We recycle as
much as we can in our facility, whether it
be paper, cardboard, plastics, or metals.
We are further developing our product
capabilities so that Scranton Printing can
continue to be environmentally con-
scious—the next step consists of green
printed materials, such as biodegradable
cups, paper straws, and other products.”
While ex-
panding
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