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Rapids Reproductions Gives Back

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This is the Charitable Season.  Every year around the holidays Rapids Reproductions participates in “Rapids Gives Back”. This year, the employees all contributed and adopted a family through HACAP for the holidays. I am so grateful to work with such a kind, caring and considerate group of people.  Because of our generosity we are going […]

Let Us Help You with Your Taxes!

If your large format printers are fully depreciated, it is time to ask a very important question.  Is this equipment performing to the standards that you expect?  Can you say that you have the most update technologies with all the bells and whistles that will streamline your productivity? Don’t you miss the deduction you get […]

Letter Writing Day

national letter writing day

December 7th is Letter Writing Day!  It is time to reach out to friends and family that you have not been in contact with recently.  Think about how wonderful it would be to get home from a long hard day at work to find a letter from a friend or family member in that mail […]

Holiday Printing

Happy Holiday printing, calendar, postcard, greeting card

Now that we are all stuffed from a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family, it is now time to get ready for the next batch of holidays!  While we are decorating for the holiday season, don’t forget that Rapids Reproductions can help you out with many projects! Cards or letters – many people send out […]

1st Annual Picnic

Picnic

On September 30th, Rapids Reproductions hosted its first annual company picnic at Kent Park.  Food was catered in for the Rapids Reproductions employees and their families.  In addition to the food, we also had entertainment such as bean bag toss, kickball and one of the employees brought and shared his rather impressive telescope.  Of course, […]

Thank you for attending our Open House!

We would like to thank those who attended our Davenport Office Open House. We are glad that we were able to show some of our additional services such as custom wall and window graphics, life size cutouts, fine art printing and 3D printing. “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we […]

Halloween Spirit

  Ahoy Matey! It is Halloween!  While work must go on, we are prepared to deliver the Halloween Spirit to our Clients!  We are ready to “Heave, Ho!” to get your work done so Kevin can deliver your projects in Pirate fashion!  Thank you, Kevin, for your wonderful Halloween spirit and we hope you get […]

Davenport Open House

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Davenport Open House October 26th 2017 3:00 to 5:30 At 3872 Elmore Ave. Davenport IA Tour our facilities and relax with some food and beverages Nick and Mark are excited to see you there

The Advantages & Disadvantages of Prototyping

The Pros & Cons Of Prototyping Prototyping isn’t for every project, but for the projects it is right for, it can be a tremendous asset. As Dr. Sheldon Cooper would say, when prototyping finds its ideal project match, it’s a “bazinga” winner. The Prototyping Model is a system development method (SDM) in which a prototype […]

Personalized Custom Calendars

Calendar

*NEW! Shop Online: https://rapidsrepro.com/product/magnetic-calendars/ With the holidays approaching, now is the time to start thinking about gifts ideas. A customized calendar is a great gift idea.  Even the person who has everything can benefit from these personalized gifts. Our calendars include 13 color pages (8.5×11 size pages) and the corresponding 12 months of 2018.  Calendars […]

The Power of Direct Mail

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When email first came about, everyone was so excited to hear the infamous “You’ve got Mail!” signaling mail received from a friend, loved one or associate.  Nowadays, our inbox is so heavily flooded with email that we simply find ourselves deleting most items without opening them. Our mailboxes at home used to be filled with […]

The History of Dubuque Baseball

Baseball Display

The Dubuque Iowa Welcome Center enlisted us to assist with the production of the time timeline for the History of Dubuque Baseball.  We printed the timeline on untreated plywood to give it an aged or worn look to complete their display. The Welcome Center has been creating seasonal displays to promote current and past events […]

“Signs, Signs, Everywhere There’s Signs”

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Rapids Reproductions is your one stop shop for all signage.  We offer many solutions for both indoor signage and outdoor signage. A line we use commonly in the sign printing industry is “A business with no sign is a sign of no business”.  A sign is the most affordable and consistent way of advertising to […]

Top Ten Things You Didn’t Know Rapids Reproductions Could Do

Top 10

Top Ten Things You Didn’t Know Rapids Reproductions Could Do Everyone knows Rapids Reproductions prints construction documents, but that is only a small part of what we do here at Rapids Reproductions.  If it can be printed, most likely, we do it! Here are some things you may be surprised to know we can do: […]

What does “Bleed” refer to in the printing industry?

Bleed

In printing, a “bleed” is where your background color or image extends all the way to the edge of the sheet. This must be printed on a larger sheet and then trimmed down. In other words, the bleed is the area to be trimmed off. After trimming, the bleed ensures that no unprinted edges are […]

3D Printing Providing Revolutionary Benefits For Healthcare Industry

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3D Printing Providing Revolutionary Benefits For Healthcare Industry When it comes to printing, two-dimensional thinking is so 20th century. Numerous industries across the world are discovering the extremely profitable reality of 3D printing and the numerous growth opportunities it provides their businesses. This groundbreaking process allows the creation of parts and tools through additive manufacturing […]

New Metal X 3D Printer

THE METAL X An Industrial Revolution   From the company that revolutionized 3D printing with composite carbon fiber, comes a breakthrough in metal. The Metal X greatly accelerates innovation, delivering metal parts overnight using a new technology at a fraction of the cost. Leave 20th century manufacturing in the dust and create anything from industrial […]