A new study has shown that St. Louis is lagging behind other major metropolitan areas in the number of businesses owned by women.

Lyle Lovett is coming to the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis, Missouri on August 25th.

Enfocus is to release PitStop Pro and PitStop Server 11 at drupa 2012. Useful for St Louis print companies doing PDF printing, including poster printing, digital business cards and more, the software improves the accuracy and flexibility of PDF preflighting and correction. PitStop Server also improves automation with the inclusion of metadata as part of the job processing workflow.

Among the new announcements at Drupa is a paper rating system for Kodak Prospect presses. Brochure printers, stationery printers and other suppliers of printing services in St. Louis and elsewhere will appreciate the chance to benefit from the data on paper collected by Kodak over a ten year period. It will help printers involved in commercial printing, direct mail printing and book publishing to compare grades of paper for their projects and identify paper of a suitable price and quality for the different printing jobs they handle.

St Louis print companies may one day take a leaf of the book of UK trade printer RCS. The company has installed a charging station for electric vehicles at its Nottinghamshire plant. The company will use the station for its electric vehicle fleet and it will also be available to members of the public. Its not too far-fetched to think this could soon happen in St Louis as a downtown charging station opened in the city in late January, allowing members of the public to charge cars for a cost of just $4.

Printing companies are likely to be the big winners, however the Super Bowl trophy competition turns out, says the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI). Thats good news for St Louis printers and other companies offering printing services in this area. According to the ASI T-shirts with logos are being frantically prepared for an expected buyer stampede on Monday. Many sports fans will also be looking to snap up jackets and other items with the logos of their teams. Sunday night will be a big night in the printing industry as up to 25,000 T-shirts will need to be printed with either the New England Patriots or New York Giants logos.

A St. Louis, Missouri printer has been named among the top 50 private sector suppliers of printing services to the Government Printing Office (GPO) in 2011. Compton and Sons came in at number 31 on the list, rising from its 2010 ranking of 98. The volume of business done was $1.9 million. To put this in perspective, NPC Inc of Claysburg, PA, topped the list for the third time straight, gaining business worth $24.7 million during the Federal Fiscal Year, which ran to September 2011.

Nominations for entry to the William D. Schaeffer Award, run by Printing Industries of America, are now open. The award, which has been running since 1990, highlights print companies in the graphics communications industry who have helped to raise awareness and foster environmental action within the industry. St. Louis, Missouri print companies and others are invited to apply via the entry form on the PIA website.