History

Action Printing is a division of Action Advertising, Inc. A 35+ year old company, Action Advertising, Inc. is one of the largest publishers and printers in the Midwest. The company has two divisions: Action Publications and Action Printing, and has grown into one of Fond du Lac's largest employers with over 300 full and part time employees.  Action Advertising, Inc. is a division of Gannett Co., Inc.

Action Publications publishes seven free publications, including Action Advertiser/Action Sunday, a community newspaper that has won numerous national awards.

The printing division constitutes approximately 75% of Action's revenues. Action Printing's market niche includes directories, manuals, catalogs, publications and books printed with coated covers on uncoated text. Action serves customers from nearly every state in the country!

The company has experienced sales increases in each of its 35+ years. With this continued growth, the challenge has been to keep up with technology as much as practical, for the sake of Action's customers... while not overextending the company financially, for the sake of Action employees.

Maintaining this high level of service and quality requires not only a trained staff and innovative management, but also the ability to move forward with the changing technological times.
 

With the company's motto of "Excellence" continuing to be the driving force, the years ahead will include continued growth for Action Printing, and, of course, top quality service for its customers.

Action Printing’s Growth at a Glance 1970 Action Publications Established 1973 Action Printing Established 1976 Bindery services added along with higher quality press 1980 12,000 sq. ft. building built on Rolling Meadows Drive, 1st Web Press installed 1983 First 4-color sheetfed press, new bindery equipment, darkroom added with first expansion to round building 1987 Second expansion to Rolling Meadows building 1989 5-color sheetfed press added 1991 Third building expansion, bringing total space to over 50,000 sq. ft. 1994 Fourth expansion. Kolbus Perfect Binder and state-of-the-art waste paper recycling system 1999 Fifth expansion bringing total to over 100,000 sq. ft. and the addition of the following new equipment: Solna 4-unit Web Press; 6-color Komori Sheet Fed Press; Harris 755 -- 7 pocket Saddle Stitcher; a second Domino Ink-Jet System 2001 Addition of a state of the art Mueller Prima-Saddle Stitcher with automatic Make-Ready Controls 2003 Addition of the Fuji Saber P9600 Computer-to-Plate device,  eliminating the need to output film, resulting in quicker turnarounds and higher print quality. 2003 Action Printing becomes the first company in the world to utilize CIP3 standards.  We are now able to makeready finishing equipment with instructions downloaded from a file server and without any manual reentry of job information. 2005 Action installs a state-of-the-art DGM web press. The new press has the capability to produce four-color work with amazing speed and quality.

"Dean and Kathy have been an absolute pleasure to work with. They always get our jobs completed on time and by deadline. The quality of printing is top of the line. Their willingness to push printing deadline dates back so we have more time to sell helps our team be more successful and in return helps make our magazine more successful. They are easy to business with and go above and beyond what is expected. I am truly happy with the quality of work being done by Action and appreciate the hard work and effort both Dean and Kathy portray for CareerBuilder Magazine. Thank You!" Kimberly Kilmer CareerBuilder.Com