Steve Blatman

Co-Owner at Ink Spot Printing & Copy Center, Inc.

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Chamber Member since 1991

Get to Know Steve Blatman

What do you enjoy most about your job or business industry?

I enjoy finding better ways to help our customers, whether their needs consist of typical printed materials, or they have a truly unusual request.

In what ways has your chamber membership benefited you and/or your business?

Through the Chamber, I have met, and gotten to know, many owners of other local businesses, and have found both reliable vendors and customers.

How do you define success?
What business challenges do you face and how do you overcome them?

Lately, our biggest challenges have been finding more customers, and finding the supplies we need to produce their printed materials. So far, we're keeping ahead of our customers' needs, and we expect to continue to do so.

What makes your business stand out from other businesses offering similar services or products?

We are different from other small printing and mailing operations in several ways. First, we haven't given up on printing presses, because, for some needs, we can do a better, and more economical job for our customers with a printing press. Second, when combining digital printing and mailing, we can vary anything on the printed piece, to whatever level of detail that can be supported by our customer's database, and we do that, routinely, especially for smaller mailings. Finally, we freely answer inquiries so as to benefit whomever inquires, whether or not it represents business for us.

What advice would you give a young professional starting out in their career?

Plan your career. Don't count on your employer to do it for you.

What’s something about you that most people may not know (favorite band, favorite food, childhood memory, etc.)?

I'm tall. With all the zoom meetings over the past two years, I'm surprised at how many people don't know that.