Errol Fraser started Princess Printing in Sydney Mines with full funding from NIDAC and CBDC. After 17 years doing traditional printing, he shifted into vinyl signage to survive the decline in paper demand. He believes both services will keep the business going.
My name is Errol Fraser. Princess Printing is a printing business from Sydney Mines. We do pretty much letterhead, envelopes, cards, anything involved with paper. I took the printing course in Memorial and was printing away in Halifax. I was not making a whole lot of money. Somebody told me I should start my own business. One thing led to another. Somebody told me to go see NIDAC. I did. The next thing you know, I was opening up and I didn't even realize it. Well, when we first looked into opening up, friends of my parents were visiting, told me I should go and, you know, start my own business. I just said, yeah, I would. And one thing led to another. We went and did the interview. And talked about money, what I would need to start. When we first started up, they funded me pretty much 100% of the money to get going and got me going for a while. We went, after maybe 17 years later, everything was paid off. We just were running for a while, decided might like to build my own building. Went and seen them again and everything was funded again in full. And help you out in any way they can. So we did that, paid the building off, and went a while later, found out the printing was slowing down and was still a business we wanted to keep going. So we went and seen them again and maybe buying vinyl gear to get into doing signs and other vinyl products which would help the business. CBDC They were totally ready to do anything for you. For the future of Princey's Printing, we're just now getting into vinyl. Hopefully both go hand in hand and keep us busy.
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