University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: News Stories

Two Positions Open at DPPS!

DPPS seeks a customer service representative with printing experience to work in our offset and digital print facility. In this role, you will use your expertise and customer service skills to help our great team serve the UW campus and beyond!   https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/printing-project-coordinator-madison-wisconsin-united-states   We’re also adding a digital printing operator to our production area, responsible for …

Hope for an Endangered Art

Veronica Pham MFAx’24 preserves an ancient form of papermaking, with a twist. Most of us use paper products without thinking much about them. That is certainly true at DPPS, where we have pallets upon pallets of paper moving through the shop all the time. But for UW student and artist Veronica Pham MFAx’24, every piece …

Art Gallery Goes Large Format

We recently installed an art gallery in our large format production room, to showcase the different types of material we can output to. These colorful images surround the new Colex CNC cutter and add some interest to this workspace. Prepress staff selected some of their favorite images from public-domain fine art sites, and we printed …

After the Storm

The Madison area had a substantial amount of snow dumped upon us on January 9. As a reminder, the UW doesn’t close during weather events, so we were open as usual during that snowfall. You can ALWAYS access our website for 24/7 file submission of your projects as well, from the comfort of your home …

Memories of prior equipment

Before we moved to our new location, we decided to sunset some older Sakurai 2-color press equipment instead of spending the money to move them to our new location. The work that was produced on these presses has since transitioned to our larger four-color press, or over to the Ricoh digital presses we added to …

The Difference a Year Makes

One year ago today, we were accepting delivery on a third Ricoh 9210 high-speed printer for our digital production area. We had started with two of these amazing production devices when we moved here in March 2022, and quickly saw the benefits of adding another. Luckily, we had designed the space to allow for such …

QR Codes Explained

Quick-Response (QR) Code – invented in 1994 by a Japanese automotive company. ********* Many Uses for QR Codes! You can direct people to a website, download a document or app, initiate an email or phone call, connect to wifi, and more with QR Codes. You can even have them make a payment or donation to …

Larger Than Life

Sometimes watching our new EFO PRO16h large format printer is mesmerizing. Click the link below to watch it printing a sign on Coroplast. https://printing.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/115/2023/12/PRO16h-SD-480p.mov This equipment has expanded our abilities in this area of production, and is extremely fast and efficient! Order your poster or pull-up kit today! PRO16h – SD 480p

Holiday Hours

DPPS will be closed on Monday, 12/25 and Monday, 01/01. We are open regular hours Tuesday-Friday of those weeks. Customer pickups at the DoIT Help Desk will be affected by their holiday hours too; 1210 West Dayton is closed from 12/23-01/01. Please plan ahead for your proof and product pickups during that time, to make …

Employee Appreciation Luncheon

DPPS had an employee appreciation luncheon yesterday in our production center. We supplied subs and sides, and some of the employees also brought appetizers and desserts to share with the group. We talked about some of the successes we’ve had since moving to our new location 21 months ago, and how we are more efficient …