Economic slowdown prompts Pro Print to make staff cuts

Pro Print eliminated five full-time positions this week, but will try to retain the employees with part-time work until the commercial printing

company can hire them back full time when the seasonal slowdown ends in the fall, company president Creston Dorothy said.

"It has been the economic slowdown," Dorothy said. "We are doing well with sales, but we have to keep our costs in line with income."

Pro Print, which now employs about 35 at 3920 Airpark Boulevard, has offered each employee the opportunity to stay on for two or three days a week, Dorothy said.­

"Most of them are going to take us up on it," Dorothy said.

The reductions came from different departments including one from administration and four from different areas of production.