With the increasing concerns about the conservation of the environment, the printing industry is steadily progressing towards adopting eco-friendly printing techniques, which is otherwise known as ‘green printing’. The fact that conventional printing colors and other additives can cause havoc to nature if disposed improperly, is well known to all. So, the shift to using [...]
What to Look for in a Green Printing Company
Green printing can help to balance the environmental demands of the printing industry. A company that employs recycled paper and green printing practices can still meet the needs of their customers by using water based latex inks. Companies committed to green printing will recycle their print product waste, as well as any other waste that [...]
Which wide format printer is the right one?
A wide format printer is a printer which renders on pages wider than 17” but less than 100”. Printers over the 100” mark are referred to as “super-wide” or “grand” format. Wide format printer research can help separate the pretenders from the contenders when printing banners, posters and signs as well as black and white [...]
Managed Print Services works for small & medium businesses
In today’s economy everyone is looking for ways to save money and improve efficiency. We download apps to find the gas station with lowest prices. Television shows such as Extreme Couponing demonstrate how to buy $600 of goods for only $2.64. Businesses count every penny and eliminate waste wherever they can. But one area that often gets overlooked is [...]
KIP Cloud Printing Apps
Convenient, On-The-Go Productivity KIP Cloud Printing delivers a flexible new approach to delivering print services — one that better responds to mobile business needs by providing a driverless cloud printing solution. KIP Cloud Printing Apps are engineered for remote print submission environments. Whether you’re using an iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, Laptop, or USB, KIP Web [...]
Hackworth Donates Banner and House Plans to Extreme Makeover
Hackworth donated a banner to Christopher Academy in Portsmouth, VA in their effort to help with ABC’s Extreme Makeover Food Drive. Also, Hackworth was honored to donate the house plans for the house that was built in Virginia Beach. The food drive was a great success. Christopher Academy alone recieved 3 tons of food! School officials [...]
Hard Truths About ‘Soft’ Fees
I have a favorite ad campaign. It’s for a bank and features a slick fellow offering different cool things to children, but there’s always a catch. As it dawns on the kids that they’re being treated unfairly their benefactor turned tormenter seems terribly pleased with himself, even laughing in a small girl’s face in one commercial. [...]
New KIP Software Updates Meter Reading Automatically
Hackworth now has the ability to program the newer versions of KIP software to automatically email meter readings. This is a great benefit to customers would like to have this feature setup so you don’t have to be bothered with phone calls every month. Please contact Steve Kirnan or Corey Wilt to schedule an onsite [...]
Do I need a PostScript Printer to Print a PDF file?
Technical answer….Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is rapidly gaining acceptance in the global marketplace as the standard file format for electronic document distribution and printing. Think of an Adobe PDF file as a reliable “digital master”. With Adobe PDF, you can capture the original look and feel of a document, including all the fonts, images, [...]






