The Little Print Shop that Could

Sometimes people get the impression that we, as the front-running purveyors of cheap color copies and printing online, are out to put the local mom-and-pop copy shops out of business.

This could not be less true.

Still, I have read blogs and forums in which people refer to the top online places as mafia-like, as if we're all part of some organized syndicate whose primary directive is price-gouging, fixing the market and stealing business away from the little guys.

While we can't speak for our competitors, this is certainly not true of us.

Here's the truth: Docucopies.com began over 25 years ago, long before anyone knew what a dot-com was. Our founder and CEO, David Pressley, was a student at the University of Wisconsin River Falls in western Wisconsin. It was here that he managed the print and copy shop on campus. Eventually he, along with his wife Karen and a few business partners, took up shop in historic downtown Hudson, Wisconsin and named their print and copy shop Copy Cat. Over the years, Pressley expanded and diversified his business in Minnesota and eventually made the transition to the Internet, where the business continues to thrive and grow today.

Docucopies.com has a synergistic business relationship with smaller, localized print and copy shops, because while the business has certainly grown since being the little shop that could, we never forget our roots as a mom-and-pop shop and support the mutual effort to protect independent business from the large national chains.

Here's a well-deserved salute to small businesses, and a defiant fist in the face of the chain-copy mafia.