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In June of 1969 a small quick printing company was established and began doing business under the name of Kaminer Printing Company. The Owner's name was Winston Kaminer and he had one employee, Reva Shelton. At that time, few people knew about quick printing and Kaminer was the first business in the area of it's kind. Company equipment consisted of an A.B. Dick duplicator, an Itek camera and a Xerox machine. Five years later in the mid 1970's several quick printing companies moved into Charlottesville and Winston Kaminer decided to branch out into commercial printing. He moved the company to larger quarters on Harris Street, bought a real printing press and added a folder and cutter and a darkroom. The company continued to grow and by 1976, Winston moved Kaminer Printing to it's present location on Belleview Ave. At this time he took on a partner, Geddes Thomson and changed the name of the company to Kaminer & Thomson Inc. In 1979, Winston & Geddes retired from the business and sold their shares in the company to Anne Cleveland. Anne is Mr. Thomson's daughter and Winston's former wife. Anne continues to own and operate the company to this day. During the next 2 decades, Kaminer and Thomson would begin printing 2 color and 4 color work, establishing itself as a service and quality oriented printing business. In 1994, Kaminer and Thomson was printing a small black and white arts and entertainment publication called The Charlottesville Monthly. The owners of the magazine decided not to continue publishing it and Anne and her husband Sam Cleveland, a local architect, bought it. Over the next seven years, they turned it into a full color, 40 page calendar of arts and entertainment with an annual distribution of over 120,000. The name of that publication is Charlottesville Arts and Entertainment, and Kaminer and Thomson continues to print it every month. Kaminer and Thomson prints for some of the most prestigious organizations in the area and is well known to professional print buyers and designers. |