AmPrint Inc. sells assets to Allied Printing Services
Holliston, Mass. shop closes; Allied keeps most employees, will open facility in nearby Marlborough
Allied Printing Service, a large sheetfed and web commercial and financial printing company in Manchester, Conn., has purchased the assets of AmPrint, a commercial printing in Holliston, Mass.

A. James Roberts, who was president and co-owner of AmPrint, said Allied purchased the customer list, some equipment, and will open a production facility in nearby Marlborough, Mass. staffed with many of AmPrint’s former employees.
Roberts and business partner Dave Bjork formed the company in 1990 when they merged The Printery, a small print shop in Natick, with Ambrose Press in Norwood.

“Dave was playing golf with a sales rep from Allied Printing, and one thing led to another, and we decided to sell,” Roberts said. “It was a combination of factors that led to the sale, but what was most important to us as owners were our employees and our customers.

“Allied has assured us both will be taken care of,” Roberts said. All but three of AmPrint’s employees will join Allied at the Marlborough facility. Roberts will join the firm as a sales representative and continue to service the clients from AmPrint.
“We have talked of a while about selling the company and this seemed like a good deal,” said Roberts who is just returning work after being out with a medial issue.

He said AmPrint reached a level of $5 million to $6 million in annual gross sales before the economic slowdown of 2000 and that was compounded by the events and effects of Sept. 11, 2001. “We’ve gotten back to about a $3 million level in annual sales , but we thought the timing was good.”

Allied Printing is an ISO 9001 certified printing company with multiple sheetfed and heatset web printing capability. Its published equipment list includes eight sheetfed presses, three heatset web presses. The company operates three production shifts and has an electronic prepress department, and full-service in-house bindery and mailing and fulfillment department. The company maintains sales offices in Boston in New York. No one from Allied was available to comment on the asset purchase.