The House Printers Corporation was conceived in 1969 as a simple proprietorship company with one unit of Minerva letterpress machine, one unit of manual cutter, 5 sets of letterpress fonts, one operator for Minerva and a lot of heart and optimism. Initially the plant was located in the dirty kitchen of the owner's residence and the raw materials were stored in the garage.The first job of this printing shop was the tickets of a mini-bus company which operate from Taytay-Divisoria. Then came jobs from the alma mater of the owners. Through hard work and determination,there were always ample jobs for the presses and the necessity to expand was always present. First an Automatic Letterpress machine (V-50) was acquired, then another Minerva was added.After 2 years of operations, the need to branch out to offsetprinting was always considered but due to the fact that the capitalrequirements of setting up a new offset machine was stiff, the company decided to trade in one of the Minerva Letterpress machine and bought a secondhand Harris Offset machine. Although it took a lot of headaches to oper-ate the machine, it gave the company an insight towards offset technology and further more, the company was obliged to apply for a 3-phase electrical supply from Meralco.Further expansion of clientele base was initiated with the advent and operation of the old offsetand decision was reached aftera lot of deliberation to purchase a major machine for the company.The fact that the financial base of the company was still weak, a Heidelberg KSBA was negotiated from PHILPRINT and was delivered in 1973.In 1973 the company was incorporated and the first real step toward full offset press operations was initiated using brand new machineries. The first acquisition towards this direction was the trade in of the Heidelberg KSBA for a Heidelberg KORD. Later anotherHeidelberg GTO was purchased trading in the V-50. This Heidelberg GTO was later traded in for another Heidelberg KORD.During this time of expansion, we started to cater our servicesto the top corporations that up to the present still are part of our operations. The marketing strategy was to get one client who are leadersin their line of business such as Dutch Boy for paints, RFM for flour, SMC-Magnolia for ice cream, Purefoods for canned food products, Levi's for garments, Nestle for their promotional items, etc.Before the decline of our economy, our company was able to change most of the previous equipment to 2 color offset machineries and these gave us ample leverage to weather the economic crisis that gripped our nation.
The House Printers Corporation was conceived in 1969 as a simple proprietorship company with one unit of Minerva letterpress machine, one unit of manual cutter, 5 sets of letterpress fonts, one operator for Minerva and a lot of heart and optimism. Initially the plant was located in the dirty kitchen of the owner's residence and the raw materials were stored in the garage.The first job of this printing shop was the tickets of a mini-bus company which operate from Taytay-Divisoria. Then came jobs from the alma mater of the owners. Through hard work and determination,there were always ample jobs for the presses and the necessity to expand was always present. First an Automatic Letterpress machine (V-50) was acquired, then another Minerva was added.After 2 years of operations, the need to branch out to offsetprinting was always considered but due to the fact that the capitalrequirements of setting up a new offset machine was stiff, the company decided to trade in one of the Minerva Letterpress machine and bought a secondhand Harris Offset machine. Although it took a lot of headaches to oper-ate the machine, it gave the company an insight towards offset technology and further more, the company was obliged to apply for a 3-phase electrical supply from Meralco.Further expansion of clientele base was initiated with the advent and operation of the old offsetand decision was reached aftera lot of deliberation to purchase a major machine for the company.The fact that the financial base of the company was still weak, a Heidelberg KSBA was negotiated from PHILPRINT and was delivered in 1973.In 1973 the company was incorporated and the first real step toward full offset press operations was initiated using brand new machineries. The first acquisition towards this direction was the trade in of the Heidelberg KSBA for a Heidelberg KORD. Later anotherHeidelberg GTO was purchased trading in the V-50. This Heidelberg GTO was later traded in for another Heidelberg KORD.During this time of expansion, we started to cater our servicesto the top corporations that up to the present still are part of our operations. The marketing strategy was to get one client who are leadersin their line of business such as Dutch Boy for paints, RFM for flour, SMC-Magnolia for ice cream, Purefoods for canned food products, Levi's for garments, Nestle for their promotional items, etc.Before the decline of our economy, our company was able to change most of the previous equipment to 2 color offset machineries and these gave us ample leverage to weather the economic crisis that gripped our nation.
The House Printers Corporation was conceived in 1969 as a simple proprietorship company with one unit of Minerva letterpress machine, one unit of manual cutter, 5 sets of letterpress fonts, one operator for Minerva and a lot of heart and optimism. Initially the plant was located in the dirty kitchen of the owner's residence and the raw materials were stored in the garage.The first job of this printing shop was the tickets of a mini-bus company which operate from Taytay-Divisoria. Then came jobs from the alma mater of the owners. Through hard work and determination,there were always ample jobs for the presses and the necessity to expand was always present. First an Automatic Letterpress machine (V-50) was acquired, then another Minerva was added.After 2 years of operations, the need to branch out to offsetprinting was always considered but due to the fact that the capitalrequirements of setting up a new offset machine was stiff, the company decided to trade in one of the Minerva Letterpress machine and bought a secondhand Harris Offset machine. Although it took a lot of headaches to oper-ate the machine, it gave the company an insight towards offset technology and further more, the company was obliged to apply for a 3-phase electrical supply from Meralco.Further expansion of clientele base was initiated with the advent and operation of the old offsetand decision was reached aftera lot of deliberation to purchase a major machine for the company.The fact that the financial base of the company was still weak, a Heidelberg KSBA was negotiated from PHILPRINT and was delivered in 1973.In 1973 the company was incorporated and the first real step toward full offset press operations was initiated using brand new machineries. The first acquisition towards this direction was the trade in of the Heidelberg KSBA for a Heidelberg KORD. Later anotherHeidelberg GTO was purchased trading in the V-50. This Heidelberg GTO was later traded in for another Heidelberg KORD.During this time of expansion, we started to cater our servicesto the top corporations that up to the present still are part of our operations. The marketing strategy was to get one client who are leadersin their line of business such as Dutch Boy for paints, RFM for flour, SMC-Magnolia for ice cream, Purefoods for canned food products, Levi's for garments, Nestle for their promotional items, etc.Before the decline of our economy, our company was able to change most of the previous equipment to 2 color offset machineries and these gave us ample leverage to weather the economic crisis that gripped our nation.