Prepress - the foundation to all printing projects.

With any print project, the time spent on planning and prepping is well worth it. Our prepress department is equipped with the latest software and technologies to help reduce your costs and meet your deadlines.

Our Prepress Capabilities include:

1. Workstations
   • G5 & G4 workstations with OS10
   • PC Production Workstation with Windows XP Professional
2. High Resolution Digital Color Images
   • 35mm slide scans
   • 5 megapixel digital color photo shots
   • Flatbed scans – lineart up to 3200 dpi and color/grayscales up to 400 dpi (original artwork maximum size of 8.5" x 11")
3. Image manipulation
   • High end color corrections
   • Photo collages
   • Cloning
   • Reformatting for different end uses
4. Prepress Solutions
   • Preflight
   • Trapping
   • Imposition with Preps
   • Violet Digital Plates (CTP)           
   • Line screens up to 200 lpi
   • Apogee PDF RIP workflow
   • Output from all leading design software applications for both Mac and PC platforms
5. Proofing
   • High end black & white laser prints
   • Digital DocuColor prints
   • Contract-quality digital proofs from the SWOP-certified ORIS color proofing system and Epson 9800.
   • Digital 2-sided imposition proofs printed from final imposed files
   • Remote proofing with PDF files
6. File Transfers
   • Remote file transfer via FTP site or web browser upload for files over 2 MB
   • Email attachments for files up to 2 MB
   • Digital file copies on ZIP (100&250s), CD-ROM and DVD-ROM

Click here for file formats and applications we support.