Category Archives: Direct Mail
J&Q’s Color Inkjet Success Story with MCS, Inc.
View MCS’s recent video on Johnson & Quin’s Success Story! How important are vendor partners to your business? Almost all companies rely on other businesses to supply them with something to make their product or service happen successfully. Johnson & … Continue reading
Update on January Postage Increase and USPS Promotions
Postal Rate Increase 2020 It’s that time of the year again – the festive holiday season is over, we are in the midst of winter with its often cold and cloudy days, and another postal rate increase hits marketers’ budgets … Continue reading
Postage Increase Taking Place January 26, 2020
On January 26, 2020 postage prices are going up, and for J&Q direct mail clients we estimate a $.005 increase per package which is less than the 2019 rate increase. In October the U.S. Postal Service filed a postal rate … Continue reading
The Importance of Data Security in Direct Mail
How do companies keep sensitive information safe from hackers who are persistently working to infiltrate computer networks to steal identities, social media accounts, financial, health and other valuable personal information? It’s not enough for organizations to just say that this … Continue reading
Color Inkjet Production & Postal Optimization for Direct mail
Click to view J&Q’s latest video! Johnson & Quin has recently released a new video that provides a great overview of our direct mail production services and facility. View the video here. J&Q has a long history in the printing … Continue reading
Goodbye Boring Black, Hello Color!
A Xerox publicity photo of the 9700 Cut Sheet Laser Printer In 1978 Johnson & Quin obtained a Xerox 9700, the first commercial cut sheet laser printer, and became the first “print for profit” laser company in the Midwest. 41 … Continue reading
J&Q Converts All Direct Mail Production to High-Speed Color Inkjet
It is the beginning of a new era at Johnson & Quin. With 143 years of printing experience, we have announced that all client direct mail programs are now printed and personalized on high-speed color inkjet presses. All monochrome (black … Continue reading
Add Digital to Your Mail with an Informed Delivery® Campaign
In our last blog we explained that Informed Delivery is a Postal Service program that sends consumers an email with grayscale images of the mail pieces that will arrive in their mailboxes soon. Black and white images are displayed of … Continue reading
Optimize Your Mail with USPS Informed Delivery®
What is Informed Delivery? Informed Delivery is a Postal Service program that sends consumers an email with grayscale images of the mail pieces they will receive in the next day or two. Images are provided of the exterior, address-side of … Continue reading
Postage Increase Implemented January 27th
The Chicagoland area (where J&Q is located), and the rest of the Midwest are coming out of the polar vortex – thank goodness! After surviving wind chills as low as -45 to -55 degrees on Wednesday, mailers are also experiencing … Continue reading
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