Exhibit 3.1

                             ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT
                                       TO
                            ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                                   QUIPP, INC.

         Pursuant to the provisions of Section 607.1006 of the Florida Business
Corporation Act, the undersigned, Quipp, Inc., a Florida corporation, by its
President and Chief Executive Officer, does hereby make and execute these
Articles of Amendment to its Articles of Incorporation:

         1. The name of the corporation is Quipp, Inc.

         2. The Articles of Incorporation are amended by adding the following
new Article IX:

                                   ARTICLE IX

                  Special meetings of the shareholders of the corporation may be
         called, for any purpose or purposes permitted by law, by the board of
         directors of the corporation on its own initiative and shall be called
         by the board of directors (a) upon written request by the chairman of
         the board or the president of the corporation or (b) following delivery
         to the secretary of the corporation, by holders of not less than ten
         percent of all the votes entitled to be cast on any issue proposed to
         be considered at the proposed special meeting, of one or more signed
         and dated written demands for the meeting describing the purpose or
         purposes for which it is to be held; provided, that if a special
         meeting is called pursuant to a demand by shareholders, the board of
         directors shall not, within one year following the date of such special
         meeting, be required to call a meeting pursuant to clause (b) unless
         there is delivered to the secretary of the corporation, by holders of
         not less than one-third of all the votes entitled to be cast on any
         issue proposed to be considered at the proposed special meeting, one or
         more signed and dated written demands for the meeting describing the
         purpose or purposes for which it is to be held. Special meetings of the
         shareholders may not be called in any manner that is not set forth in
         this Article IX. Only business within the purpose or purposes described
         in the special meeting notice may be conducted at a special meeting of
         shareholders.

         3. The date of the adoption of the amendment by the shareholders of
Quipp, Inc. was April 29, 2003.

         4. The only voting group entitled to vote on the amendment was the
holders of the common stock. The number of votes cast for the amendment by the
holders of the common stock was sufficient for approval by that voting group.


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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, these Articles of Amendment to Articles of
Incorporation of Quipp, Inc. have been executed by Quipp, Inc., by its President
and Chief Exeuctive Officer, this 29th day of April 2003.


                                         QUIPP, INC.


                                         By: /s/ Michael S. Kady
                                             ------------------------


                                                  Michael S. Kady
                                                  President and
                                                  Chief Executive Officer

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