Dickinson Press Overview
Dickinson Press, Inc [DP] is a well established and innovative book manufacturer specializing in trade soft and hard cover books, Bibles, New Testaments, dictionaries and educational workbooks. DP also specializes in lightweight papers and compact or mini books.
Through a billion dollar network of industry expertise, DP offers Christian book publishers a wide variety of strategic services intended to increase publisher’s revenue and brand equity, while reducing costs. These services include:
- Inventory reduction and cash flow management
- “Green” initiative workshops
- Packaging engineering
- Warehouse logistics and design appraisals
- Pre-press and workflow assessments
- Print Buyer training
- Research driven product development and cover design consulting
- Strategic marketing concepting
DP is the first four color process printer in the US; installed the first Mitsubishi four-color sheet fed press; the first to successfully print on 14.5lb paper; the first to install a Mitsubishi six color perfecting press; invented Square Back Saddle Stitching; the first to install a 54” Timson in the US; the first company to provide RISC [Research Institute On Social Change] book reader research and consumer profiles to the book industry.
It is DP’s vision to become the leading provider of unique, high quality services to Christian book marketers.
About Rick Hamm
Rick Hamm is Director of RISC Research (Research Institute for Social Change)
at Marshall Marketing, and has been with the company since 1990.
He has worked with RISC since the company’s first use of the system in 1996. Marshall Marketing, in Pittsburgh, Penn., was founded in 1985, does survey work and marketing consulting with a variety of national and local-market clients, and currently conducts more than 75,000 consumer interviews annually.

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