Category: Announcements

We’re pleased to announce that Ben Hamaker from our production team was recently promoted to Print Operator III, after taking the lead on the fulfillment portion of our bindery and shipping process for DPPS customers. Ben is also celebrating 3 years in the bindery area this month, and has been a key member of our …

Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of Steve Dwyer’s start at DPPS as a customer service rep. Steve has helped thousands of customers with their printing needs in the past decade and is a mentor to others inside our walls and within our client base on how to write up orders and navigate our ordering system. …

Today, DPPS celebrates nine years of service for James Gonzales in our digital printing area. James helps coordinate the workload, preps files and generates proofs, and sometimes runs the printers in our production area. Nine cheers for nine years!

We have a lot of art on the walls at DPPS, much of which is photos employees took. However, there is a new art installation that dates back before any of us were born; images from the 1940s of the Memorial Union Terrace and Red Gym. They show a simpler time on the UW campus, …

Karen Koethe was selected as the winner of our May Giveaway! She will receive a custom-manufactured set of coasters with a variety of badger themes, produced on our EFI hybrid printer and cut out using our Colex CNC cutting equipment. They are displayed in a 3D-printed coaster holder to complete the look.  Want to get …

DPPS is hiring! After a long career in print, one of our customer-facing reps is retiring from the UW. We are looking for a customer service person to take on the most detailed, complex projects we work on, including outsourcing to other vendors. If you know someone, pass this along! UW Madison’s Digital Publishing and …

Today, we recognize Ted Brandt, Printing Project Coordinator, on his second anniversary at DPPS! May also has other milestones for staff: Tom Gross celebrated two years earlier in the month, and Ken Parman will be reaching his nine-year mark on May 26. Congrats to all, and here’s to many more years at UW–Madison’s best place …

The other day, I asked each of our staff members how long they’ve been working in print environments. We had data from OHR showing that staff in permanent positions at UW–Madison totaled 268.3 years for our current team; since then, I was able to add all of the additional years each person has worked in other …

Hey gang, For those of you who received one of the DPPS Photo Calendars this year, we have some news for you: Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 10th (not the 17th as we mistakenly printed in our 600 calendars!) Director Rich Gassen takes full responsibility for this error (actually, the automated software he uses to …