Alegra

So since Leslie takes us on countless field trips to different printers, I half expected this one to be like all the others and was not as excited as I was when we went on the first field trip. But I am so glad I opened up to it because it was the most beneficial one we had gone on yet. Alegra printing is located here in Chattanooga behind Sportsman’s Warehouse out off 153 it looks like a huge building from the outside (like all the others) but its nothing like that at all. Todd Oats, manager, greeted us so warmly and started the tour. He showed us the design room and where it all beings and took us to some of their laser printers. And I began to realize at that point how small it was. But their turn around is so fast and they can do anything. Then we went into the back where the main printer was and I was so surprised at how small it was. So used to going to the huge printers in town they had million dollar machines that were billions of tons and this one was as tall as us and the print man showed us exactly how it worked. (No one had been able to do that for us yet, it helped us make sense of things) then we went into the main back room and watched a man send things through a folding machine and watched them make a huge metal sign. The entire experience felt more heartfelt than anyone we had been on mainly because of the size of their company. And at the end we were given 2gig zip drives each and coffee mugs. It was such a great field trip. Good to know where they are and hopefully I will get a chance to go back and do business with them one day.