Boro Park Snapshot: Ctrl P Printing Company
We are the People of the Book. And people of the book need copies, lots of copies. In a hurry.
Enter Ctrl P Printing Company, where a smiling, young
chassidishe man will do anything from copy the girls’ school yearbook, a color
war banner, a Teshuvas HaRashba and a construction blueprint in the span of an
hour.
Benzion Daskal, a Bobover yungerman, is a happy storeowner
in prime Boro Park real estate. He opened Ctrl P seven years ago at 5102 16th
Ave. as a first time storeowner, fresh out of kollel. He is, in his words, the
only copy center along the length of 16th Ave.
That makes him the bull's eye for the dozens of yeshivas and
schools in the area, Mr. Daskal told boropark24.com’s
Heshy Rubinstein in an interview.
“I have all types of customers. Some people come in for a
10-cent copy while others place orders for thousands of dollars,” he said.
But he gives every one of them the same smile and dedication
to the job, big or small.
“You never know,” he said, “today’s small customer could be
tomorrow’s large customer.”
At this point, Mr. Daskal does the more specialized and
larger jobs himself, while allowing his smaller customers greater leeway to do
things on their own.
He has the more expensive machines in the back where he does
the specialized orders while placing a do-it-yourself printer in front, where
anyone can come in, make copies and pay without Mr. Daskal having to tend to
them. He has three kiosks, all of which are filtered by Meshimer, for customers
to print their own copies.
His larger customers include printing the weekly Torah from
Rav Elimelech Biderman, a popular speaker from Eretz Yisroel, the Bobover and
Gerrer mosdos, and construction blueprints. Regular business means banners,
postcards and business cards.
Mr. Daskal’s entry into the business world is relatively
unconventional. He was learning in kollel three and a half years after his
marriage when the idea came to him to go into printing. He would never have
opened on his own. But he began with a partner who had knowledge of the
printing industry and was forced to adapt when his associate backed out.
His business has taken off so successfully he is currently
looking to expand and move to a bigger location.
“On 16th Ave.,” he hurried to clarify.
