Inland Press won two prestigious awards - The People's Choice Award for its printing and project coordination and the Ben Franklin Corporate Award for its leadership in the industry.

These awards are based on the opinions (votes) of printers and print buyers in southeast Michigan. "To have our competitors and customers vote us the best means a lot to us. This wasn't a panel of judges, but colleagues who know us and our work well," says Inland President Brad Thompson.

Judges also singled out Inland for three Gold Awards. A technical publication for Dodge, a brochure for Volvo and a press kit for the Dodge R/T series won top awards in an annual competition organized by The Detroit Club of Printing House Craftsmen. That was Inland's first step on the way to the coveted People's Choice Award. When the printing professionals in southeast Michigan met for the awards ceremony, they had a chance to evaluate the strong field of winners and from there chose Inland Press the best of the best.

You can read more about the project that won the People's Choice Award in September issue of the "Graphic Arts Monthly."

With the Ben Franklin Corporate Award, Inland's colleagues, competitors and customers are honoring them again for the fine printing they do and for it's many contributions to the industry. The company has always supported industry efforts to improve relations between printers and customers, provide educational opportunities for those in the graphic arts industry and promote technical research.

These awards highlight Inland's century old tradition of investing in people, equipment and technology. The company was the first in southeast Michigan to interface with their clients' computer systems and it continues to harness technology in an effort to offer better and better products.

Inland Press began as the in-house printing department of the "Detroit Legal News" in 1909. At that time, Detroit was making its name as the nation's automobile capital, and the Legal News was the city's official newspaper responsible for publishing records of the many transactions that took place.

Anxious to provide the business and legal communities with the best and most timely reports, directors of the Detroit Legal News Company decided they could no longer depend on outside printers and started printing the newspaper themselves. To defray expenses, they solicited small printing jobs. Satisfied customers spread the word and the business quickly doubled its revenues.

Inland Press has built its reputation on customer service. The people at Inland, from the president to the pressmen, understand that their success is based on giving the customer a quality job on time at a competitive price.

In order to service the changing needs of its customer, Inland Press purchased a Kodak 5034 DirectPress. This direct imaging press is capable of producing a 13.25 x 18.125 inch sheet at 200 line screen. With the ability to go direct to press, Inland can respond to the shortest schedule to meet the customer's needs. The pressroom was expanded in 2007 with the addition of a Goss Community Web Press, to better serve the newspaper market.

Inland Press is one of metro Detroit's largest sheet-fed printers and is located in the city's empowerment zone. The company prints brochures, annual reports, posters and catalogs.