17 August 2022
West Star Sells Building and Webs
TORONTO—
145,000 sq. ft. plant sold in February
145,000 sq. ft. plant sold in February
West Star has sold their  plant on North Queen and also their two heat set webs. They have rented the property for two years and will be moving to a smaller location. The North Queen plant was 145,000 Sq, Ft. On 6 acres and was reportedly sold for $42 million. The heat set webs were sold to Mi5 in Mississauga . West Star plans to focus on the trade sheet fed business going forward.
Still one of the largest sheet fed trade printers in Toronto
Still one of the largest sheet fed trade printers in Toronto
The landscape for large trade printers in Toronto has dramatically changed over the last several years. Point-One at one time over $34 million is gone and Trade Secrets assets were sold to MPI Print. With the exception of Prodigy Graphics MPI Print is the only trade printer with a heat set web in Toronto.
2017 and 2018 saw sheet fed trade printers like Annan & Sons, Toronto Trade and Printer Gateway disappear. In 2020 4 Over North America's largest trade printer pulled out of Canada . 
Comments:
4. Mike says:
12 September 2023 at 8:33 PM
I worked with MPI since former employees from point one Refered me there. Worst experience ever. My job has offset. Even after they insisted that they needed a few more days for it to dry. Which was probably an excuse for being late. I granted them the extra days and when I received my job it had offset all over. I then asked for a reprint and brushed me off like garbage. They said it was my fault because I did not give them more days for drying. I was speechless because I had given them 3 days and they never asked for more days. I was disgusted with my experience and being a trade printer also I felt so confident that MPI is no competition and wished that my worst clients go there to et the same treatment I got to save a few hundred dollars. Trade secret weee crooks and Point one . Matt you specially th me best I have seen I this industry. To bad the closed.
3. Ryan says:
23 August 2022 at 5:47 PM
Sad to see another go. All the best to the Jaffar family.
2. Kevin says:
18 August 2022 at 4:46 PM
I know every former employee of Weststar wish Gulam and his older son all the BEST :) Back in the day, I made a mistake and worked there for over a year. That experience thought me a lot of how different some ppl could be.
1. Print Broker says:
18 August 2022 at 1:02 AM
I will go to the ends of Canada before I ever make the mistake of using MPI again for any if their services, including WEB printing!
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